Gingerbread Fun! Review

I knew upon first glance that this app was made for my four-year old son, who loves to bake anything and is especially fond of gingerbread men. Gingerbread Fun! allows two paths to cookie glory: Make and Bake or Straight to Decorate.

If you select Make and Bake, you begin with rolling the dough, using two fingers, then moving a stencil with one finger to place the shape (a choice of classic gingerbread man, gingerwoman, pudgy gingerman, heart, or star), pressing down with two fingers to cut into the dough, and finally shaking the phone to free the excess dough. Guided by the chef, you then place the cutout dough on a pallet into a wood-fired oven, taking care to remove before the "ding" of the oven timer, or you will have your cookie burnt and smoking. Next, your decorate the cookie (or you start here, if you chose Straight to Decorate), with options for face, hair, buttons, clothes, extras, and letters, by selecting the accoutrement from a menu up top, placing it in position, and dragging your finger to place the feature on the cookie. Finally, you may eat the cookie by chomping it with your finger, save it to the photo gallery, email it to grandma or share it on Facebook.

As of all this were not enough, a bonus game is also available, in which you slide the chef across the floor so that he "eats" falling gingerbread men and avoids falling stock pots.

A lot of baking fun is packed into this fun little app... we reccommend!