It’s time for a bake-off! Will your cake be chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, carrot … or maybe a combination of all four? And what kind of icing will you cover it in? Make sure those edges are well-sprinkled and that there’s plenty of candles on standby! Who’s cake will come out on top? Let’s get baking and find out!

What Is It?

Drafting – Each turn one player will split the cake (round 1) or icing (round 2) tiles according to a cut card for the players to draft (starting with the splitting)

Tile Placement / Pattern Building – Players will cover their grid with cake tiles, then cover those with icing tiles. They will earn points for putting sprinkles on the cake’s edges, their largest area of one flavor, and flavor tokens (earned for placing the an icing tile on a piece of cake of the same flavor)

Set Collection – As players earn flavor tokens, if they collect a set of 1 of each type, they will earn a candle which is worth more points

Who Is It For?

  • 2 to 4 Players – Slight differences in drafting at the different counts, but overall works well at any count
  • Ages 8 & Up / Family-Weight Gamers – Pretty simple gameplay. Fun theme for all ages
  • Fans of “split and choose” drafting, tile placement, and light puzzles

PROS

  • Aesthetics – Looks cute building your cake!
  • Components – Nice cake tiles
  • Smooth turns/rounds
  • Rules are well-written
  • Very approachable, good for a wide set of ages/player skill
  • Fun theme!

CONS

  • Components – I thought the icing & cut cards were a bit too thin, and the candles did not stay together well
  • Replay Value – I thought the game felt pretty “samey” play to play
    • Some luck of what tiles come out when, can’t control it when you’re not splitting the cake

Final Thoughts

Overall, a very cute theme! I enjoyed putting my cake together and trying to have different sections of the different flavors. As for the replay value – it just seemed that the go-to strategy is always put sprinkles around the edges, try to have some of each flavor (for flavor token and candle potential), and have one large group of a flavor for points there. It doesn’t seem like there’s room for much more “puzzling” other than that. But, taking into consideration that it is aimed at a younger audience, I think it’s a great game to introduce to players who like a light drafting/tile placement game!

Additional Information:
My Final Rating – 6/10

Designer – Isaac Meyer
Publisher – FoxMind
MSRP – $19.99
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*I was provided a copy of this game to do this review*

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