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Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles

Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles

Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles
$ 18.99

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Based on 4,360 ratings
Giftable
9.68
Sturdiness
9.70
Durability
9.70

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Product Description

This bright and tasty Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake will delight children with its beautifully detailed wooden cake, removable candles, and toppings, along with a cake plate and serving tray.
PLAY CAKE WITH CANDLES This pretend play cake with candles makes a great birthday cake for pretend play. Using self-stick tabs, kids can hold pieces together, then slice them apart, thus promoting hand-eye coordination, imaginative play, and creative expression.
WOODEN STORAGE BOX Thanks to its sturdy wooden construction, this Melissa & Doug birthday cake play set is built for longevity and safety. Besides a sturdy storage box, it comes with this item as well.
PERFECT GIFT FOR CHILDREN AGE 3-6 The Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake is a great gift for kids aged 3 to 6. The Melissa & Doug Triple-Layer Party Cake is just the thing to round out the screen-free, hands-on play.
FOR CHILDHOOD PLAY” Melissa & Doug has created beautifully designed products that stimulate the imagination and creativity of children for more than 30 years that NBC News called “the gold standard for early childhood play."
Our toys are designed with the highest quality standards to nurture the mind and the heart, and we guarantee you'll be totally satisfied. Give us a call if your child doesn't seem to be inspired and we will fix it. You can find our phone number on every product we sell!

Questions & Answers

Is it possible to purchase replacement candles ?

The best I can do is to tell you If you would like to speak with Melissa and her team, call her at You can contact Doug Customer Service at (800) 718-7393 The repair or replacement can be arranged by calling 5365. As of now, they do not sell the candles separately in the retail space.

Do you know how much cake is on the table?

The size of this object is about that of a large pancake, maybe eight by ten inches This is 9 inches into the picture. Whenever the Boys are done putting on the candles, they pretend to blow them out and then serve everyone a piece of "cake." They are attached with Velcro, so it may take some effort to remove them.

Five year olds are able to understand it, but is it age-appropriate?

This set was a gift I gave my two-year-old granddaughter for her first birthday. Her younger sisters and she play with it together even now that she is 5 years old. Toys like this are great, but I think kids aged 5 and younger don't necessarily find them worthwhile.

Can this make any noise or have any sound effects? I'm looking for a highly effective one without making any noise. ?

Not at all! You must not use electronics or batteries at any time! like toys that are designed for imaginative play, and this toy and its numerous pieces are used in a variety of ways by our kids. We have had it for 2 years of very rough play and it has held up well.

Selected User Reviews For Melissa & Doug Birthday Party Cake - Wooden Play Food With Mix-n-Match Toppings and 7 Candles

This is a great therapy tool
5/5

This is used by me in my treatments with children in Occupational Therapy. On most days I visit a few schools and use either a bookbag or rolling bag to carry nearly all of my supplies. Throughout the year, the perfect therapy tool has been this birthday cake. This is a great way to address a variety of individual goals with a variety of my students. Children have been known to do pretty much anything if it involves playing with this toy or any other food toy from Melissa and Doug. At the beginning of the session, we often use it as a relay game. Everything that goes into the cake and decorating goes on one plate, and the cake plate is about 10 inches in diameter There is a 15-foot distance between them. To get the cake pieces and decorations, I have the kids crab walk, bear crawl, bunny hop, scooterboard, etc. To put the cake pieces together, I have the kids repeat the same movement once they get back to the cake plate. I strongly recommend that you start with this activity before working on fine motor skills. It can help with gross motor skills, motor planning, and proprioception. In order to celebrate their birthday, we sing happy birthday after they have assembled their cake with their chosen decorations. In the past few weeks, I've celebrated so many birthdays that I'm now 100 years old! I have so many students that do not know how to appropriately play with toys, and this cute birthday cake also helps them do that at the same time. It seems counter-intuitive, but I have a lot of students who do not know how to play with toys appropriately. Toys are thrown, multiple bins are dumped, toys are chewed on, or they just don't care at all. Through the use of the cake and its many pieces, we work on social interactions, pretend play, interactive play, turn taking, making a choice, and any other skill that the student needs to work on to be successful. It has happened multiple times that students with very limited vocabularies have said "cake!" I'm happy that today is your birthday!" or "Have a terrific day!" Keeping me well-informed about what they want to do is as simple as hearing them say, "I want to play with this particular toy. ". Having these beautiful babies let me know what they wanted was an extraordinary experience, when they are normally so hesitant to say what they want. While I do not work as a speech therapist, I can see how it would be a helpful tool for them as well. This toy can meet just about any need you're trying to fulfill. Does your organization need to improve its color recognition skills? A total of 6 colored candles can be seen. Is one to one counting something you need to work on? The pieces for that are so many. Sorting is something you have to do? Toppings should be sorted in a manner that makes the most sense. Is there any way to unload the dishwasher in complete peace and quiet? Having been a mom, I can attest that it is also very effective. The tool has been a valuable tool to facilitate all the skills you need for my birthday party, because everyone enjoys birthdays, and everyone has a connection to a birthday celebration. As well, I use it as a form of I can't wait until we finish this so that we can play with the "Yes, I use it as a bribe. And it works!" I've noticed a great deal of motivation in my students! With our school in particular, it is easy to keep surfaces clean between students - It is essential to wash hands after using spray and wipes since we live in Covid days.

In my practice or with my kids, I have never come across a Melissa and Doug toy that didn't meet these standards. We are in the same boat here! The secret hope that I have is that my kids are ready to outgrow Melissa and Doug toys so that I can take them to work and buy my students some new toys. Every time I introduce new toys to my students and kids, I have so much fun. There is never a reason to be disappointed when Melissa and Doug are involved.

Messiah Gordon
Messiah Gordon
| Mar 01, 2021
There is a lot of glue and a chip in the The gift I gave my daughter for her birthday was a big hit with her
3/5

I thought the packaging and everything was super cute, but once I started looking at the pieces, I saw a lot of excess glue, as well as one piece that had dried glue and velcro fuzz on it. When you open the blue serving tray for the cake, you will find a chip in the middle. It's the same toy that I saw at my daughter's daycare (my workplace), so I know it. And it excited her to see it at home, too. As a kids toy, I understand that it is going to get a little scratched up, but I didn't expect it to arrive scratched in a brand new box. I was a little.

Kylen Villanueva
Kylen Villanueva
| Oct 17, 2020
A nice toy, but one that It's a big deal for us to own Melissa & Doug All of Doug's toys are fun, and I am satisfied with them most of the time
3/5

Despite this, I do not think this Birthday Cake set is my favorite. It's basically the same as the pizza set, and I guess that my biggest complaint would be that it's not that exciting. Which one do I like best There is a lot of cake imagery, however it doesn't really take advantage of that. As an example, why not "frosting" that is literally put on slices of cake? 3) Or, why not go beyond the 2-dimensional decorations What are the advantages of round tokens with D illustrations? If you're going to eat pizza, then this makes sense The toppings are flat, so they are not tasty! I don't really care about cake, though. Furthermore, there is a round "topper" for the middle, but the pieces cannot be cut through that. One of the nicest pieces is probably the candle. In general, it is an okay toy, but it could have been so much more.

Zainab Davidson
Zainab Davidson
| Mar 20, 2021
This is a big hit with kids! Because this wooden toy does not come with a lid, I was going to take a star away
5/5

Is that true? What is the extra cost? However, I couldn't take away a star for the kids, because they love it so Decorating the cake and serving it to each other is their favorite part. It was definitely a purchase I would be willing to make again, and we bought the pizza one as well. There are three kids age 2 and under It won't take 6 more than an hour to play quietly with these.

Zelda Marshall
Zelda Marshall
| Feb 08, 2021
This Melissa & Doug cake making set will make your birthday cakes extra special! My granddaughter turned 7 years old on her birthday and I bought her this gift
5/5

Her excitement was amazing when she received this and opened it up to play with it right away. Making different cakes and putting candles on the tops to serve people was her favorite part of her job. Playing with this item is a great way to let the kids engage in Dramatic Play. I have purchased other Melissa & Doug items before. I highly recommend the products of Doug and his company.

Dalary Rich
Dalary Rich
| Jun 27, 2021
Love it! You are so cute
5/5

Such a cute little puppy. I put the candles on real well and they stand up right, but others complained they didn't stand up, so I replaced them. I used this for my five-year-old and 18-month-old who always played birthday party. He has no trouble getting them to stand up when he is 5 years old. It's not the biggest decorations in my opinion, but my 18-month-old baby loves to put everything in his mouth, so I've found it easy to keep them away when he's not looking.

Janiyah Glass
Janiyah Glass
| Sep 11, 2020
For 12 bucks, this is an excellent product
4/5

A couple candles were broken, but they could be fixed with a little bit of glue. Whenever the birthday boy is 2 he enjoys sing the happy birthday song and blow out the candles. It is much smaller than I expected but cute nonetheless. The only con is that the plate the cake sits on can be better handled so it can be picked up easier. Since you play on the floor with it, it is pretty difficult to grab it without dropping the cakes, which leaves a frustrated 2 year old after the 10th drop (crazy face emoji here), and the knife/serving utensil may be less than helpful? I guess it is meant to be served since it is quite thick and does not cut? Both could be done better with this design.

Raylan Blair
Raylan Blair
| Apr 21, 2021
Playing with M&D toys is our favorite pastime
5/5

It is so fun to watch my daughters' faces light up when they see the cute little candles. I learned my lesson (from my mistake) and I should have been more careful with the wooden serving platter it comes with. It needs to be removed. In the process, my younger child threw it at my older child, and she hurt herself as a result. Imagine a wooden frisbee that is hard and hard to catch. I do not recommend it. I love it. There is also a pizza version of this set, which my daughters enjoy as well. These Velcro stick-ons are attached via Velcro. I think you're brilliant!.

Aila Walls
Aila Walls
| Sep 21, 2020

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