Open the cake box, mix up the cake slice layers, flip your card, and stack your cake layers to match the slice on the card. First one to correctly build their cake slice wins a candle card and the chance of wearing the baker’s toque. Great way to work on colors and coordination and a fun way to include your littles in game night!
What’s in the box?
Let’s start with the box itself. It is designed to look like a cake box from a bakery. There’s a window in the top, so you can see the cake inside and it opens from the front, just like a cake box. So cute! Inside the box are the “ingredients”: 36 foam cake slice layers; a chef’s toque; a call bell; 6 double-sided frosting layers, 36 challenge cards; and 32 candle cards. The cake layers are in six different colors and textures (a different texture for each color) and the frosting layer is either sprinkles or dots.
How to play Hey Buddy Hey Pal’s Cake-n-Bake Challenge:
Shuffle the cards together and place them in the center of the play area with the call bell. Place the toque near the play area, but it isn’t part of the game play, so doesn’t need to be centrally located.
There are three types of recipe cards: Ready, Set, Bake!; Special Recipe; and Group Challenge. Ready, Set, Bake! Cards have a picture of the cake slice that the players/bakers need to assemble. The Special Recipe cards include additional instructions, such as Cake Swap and Quick Bake, that the player/baker must complete in order to finish their round. There are also Candle Thief and Burnt Cake cards, which have the opposite effect. If your card is Candle Thief, you win the round automatically and can steal a candle card from any other player/baker. Burnt Cake means you lose your turn and don’t get to play in that round. Group Challenge cards have an added rule that every player/baker must follow. For example, if anyone gets Upside-Down, everyone has to build their cake slice upside down.
TOP TIP: If you’re playing with littles, considering leaving out the Special Recipe and/or Group Challenge cards, so they get used to building cake layers. Once they’re comfortable with the game, you can shuffle them back into the deck.
There are three ways to play: Beginner Baker; Mixin’ Madness; and Bakery Bake-off. Beginner Baker is the easy level of play. Each player/baker gets six layers of a cake slice (one of each color) plus a frosting layer. Each player/baker is dealt a recipe card face-down. When the round starts, each player/baker flips their recipe card and uses their cake layers to build a cake slice that matches the recipe card. In Mixin’ Madness, all of the cake layers are mixed up in the center of the the table, so that each player/baker has to find the right layers to build their cake slice. Bakery Bake-Off is a team version. Players/bakers split into teams of two. One is the Lead Baker and the other is the Assistant Baker, who plays blindfolded (or with their eyes closed). The Lead Baker has to describe the texture of the layers to the Assistant Baker so they can build the cake slice. Players/Bakers can alternate being Lead and Assistant or, if you’re teaming with a little, you can let them be the Assistant and earn the wins. The winner of each round is the first player/baker/team to correctly build their cake slice.
How to Win Hey Buddy Hey Pal’s Cake-n-Bake Challenge
For each round of play, the player/baker who builds their cake slice quickest, calls “Cake’s done!” and rings the call bell. Be sure your slice is correct, because if you ring the bell and your slice is wrong, you lose a candle card!
For all three ways to play the game, the goal is the same: collect 6 candle cards. Every time a player/baker (or team) wins a round, they get a candle card. Here is where the toque comes in, too. The player/baker who wins the game gets to wear the toque. Of course, you can adjust the length of game play by limiting the number of candle cards needed to win or by playing a certain number of rounds and the player/baker with the most candle cards when the game ends wins.
TOP TIP: You can award the toque to the winner of a round, instead, which is probably a better idea with littles.
TOP TIP: If you are setting a different way to end the game and multiple players have the same winning number of candle cards, a tie-break round with only the players who are tied at the top can determine the winner.
Cake-n-Bake Challenge is designed for players/bakers who are four or older, but, as mentioned above, you can make the game friendly for younger player. There are only six slices of cake, so game play is limited to 2 – 6 players/bakers/teams. Cake-n-Bake Challenge is a lot of fun and helps kids with color matching, textures, team play, and playing in rounds.
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