This set brings together eight pieces of toy food. You get a round cake with a cream-coloured rim, a cupcake in an orange case with a blue-green swirl, a pastry with a salmon-pink rose on top, an ice cream with a blue scoop in a cone, a hot dog with the sausage in the bun, a cup of iced coffee with a lid and a straw, a carton of fruit juice with strawberries on the pack, and a fork.
It is all plastic, for pretending: there is no food in the box and nothing to taste. The game is in the serving. Your child lays the table, takes a cake over to the soft toys, puts the ice cream in front of the doll and clears it away again afterwards. Ordering, serving, settling up - that pattern keeps toddlers going for a long time.
The pieces carry fine detail: the swirl on the pastry, the waffle texture of the cone, the ice cubes under the lid of the cup. They are moulded to child size and sit well in the hand, which the box sums up as Comfortable Grip.
The box states 3+. A small set, so it works as an addition to a play kitchen or a toy shop that is already there, and small enough to give as a birthday present or to slip into the shoe at Sinterklaas.
