The kit arrives as a small mint green house with a deep green roof and a red front door, and the Christmas cast is already showing through its windows. Santa waves with one mitten up, gingerbread people grin in red bow ties, candy canes twist pink and red, and the trees open into round honeycomb evergreens with a gold star at the tip. Every reindeer gets gold foil antlers, gold hooves, and a red and white twine scarf knotted at the neck.
The cases come in red and white stripes and green and white checks, so a tray of plain vanilla cupcakes turns into a whole street of them. Frost a batch, set the toppers out, and let your kid decide who gets the tree and who gets Santa, while the house waits on the counter for next year.
Details
24 toppers in 5 designs: Santa, Christmas trees with 3D honeycomb detail, gingerbread people, candy canes and reindeer
24 cupcake cases in 2 designs, striped and checked
Wooden sticks for mounting the toppers
Double-sided tape for opening the honeycomb decorations
Presented in a gift box shaped like a little house
Why we love it
Decorating is the part of baking a kid can actually run. No hot pan, no waiting, no wrong answers, just a tray in front of them and a lot of small decisions about who stands where. And when the tray is empty, the box is still a house, which is how it ends up on the pretend play shelf rather than in the recycling.
