Baketivity Kids Baking Set, Meal Cooking Party Supply Kit for Teens, Real Fun Little Junior Chef Essential Kitchen Lessons, Includes Pre-Measured Ingredients (Baketivity Kit, Pretzel)

Great project with a 10 year old. Delicious!

These pretzels were absolutely delicious!!! I was VERY surprised how great tasting they were. They were honestly better than most. You would get at a restaurant my nine-year-old granddaughter, loves hot pretzels, and she wholeheartedly approved. It looks like there are a lot of instructions initially, but the directions were just very thorough, not difficult at all. It came with everything you need pre-measured.

Perfect kit. I purchased the pretzel kit. Everything we needed was prepackaged in the exact amounts needed, except for water obviously. I was concerned there would be down time waiting for the yeast to rise or that it would be too complicated. The dough only had to rest for ten minutes, my five year old granddaughter had a blast kneading the dough. Because of the way this kit is put together, creating the pretzels went pretty fast without a lot of down time or waiting. From start to finish, it took us just over an hour to be actually eating. We had some mess, but it was well worth it for the joy my granddaughter got out of the activity. I also liked that it was like a science experiment and a learning experience, how the ingredients change as they are mixed with one another, the different smells. I'm going to be purchasing this again as well as the other kits to just have on hand because they are so fun and the time you get to spend together is made so valuable.

Overall, I think it was pricey; but I needed a gift quickly. The LAST thing my young sister needs is more STUFF that will take up anymore space in her already crowded room, so this made for a nice Christmas gift. My mother and her made them together and my mother reported they tasted as good as the pretzels she remembered buying in the streets of New York, which I take as high praise. They sent a picture and I was impressed with how good they looked, so the directions provided must have been solid. Overall, I felt it was spendy, but that is what last minute Christmas gift buying is sometimes.

I don’t usually buy kid-friendly cooking kits. My 7yo gets distracted easily, has a hard time concentrating, and following directions. Often my kid gets distracted and I am abandoned after 10 min to finish the project by myself. But, my kid loves pretzels and the idea of baking with me. This was super easy, not very messy (mixing and kneading dough), and relatively quick. All the ingredients are pre-measured, individually packaged, and labeled. The hands-off time it took to let the dough rise, boil the dough, and bake allowed my kiddo enough movement breaks to keep from becoming overwhelmed or bored by non-stop instructions. Totally worth it and kiddo wants another one. And the bonus, the pretzels were actually really tasty. Makes 12 decent-sized, soft, chewy, golden crispy crusted pretzels.