It's convenient, doesn't take up a lot of room, is super cute and really easy to use. My whole family loves it. One of my no regrets impulse buys. ??This is exactly what it says it is. It’s small. I used 1/2 of a Duncan Hines devils food, cake mix box directions but just stirred it. I used 1 T per cake pop. Cooked in 4 1/2 minutes. Perfect. If your’s isn’t working demand a new one. I literally took is out of the box. Read the directions. Made the mix. Plugged it in to heat approximately 4 minutes. I used a quart zip lock bag corner clipped off. I had a clothes pin to stop the leakage. There wasn’t enough to fool with it. I laid the bag on a plate. I set the cake pop cooker on my glass top stove. Sprayed the cooker. Fill the cake pop cooker and 4 1/2 minutes later the pops were done perfect. They popped out. Repeat. Made 45. Just the right amount for a desert. That is half a cake mix box. I live in Phoenix. It is way to hot to bake most days.I was in shock to know how easy was to use and fast. I'm glad I bought it to make my cakepops for my sister baby showerGood thanksWorked great and made delicious cake pops with store bought cake mixIt's a Christmas gift but I'm excitedI was concerned this would be complicated or i would need a special recipe due to a review we saw on here but in the end there was nothing easier to use.Here is what we did, we got a box of cake mix ingredients needed were eggs water and oil, pluged in the machine so it had time to heat, and in a bowl mixed the ingredients, we thene put everything in an empty water bottle with a sport drink top to make it easier to pour, we sprayed a bit of oil in the molds of the machine and started filling them, 3 to 5 min later we opened it amd theye were perfectly cooked , however the first 3 i did had the time to expand by the time we filled the 6 others and closed the machine so there was some mix that got out of the mold, we just peeled of the extra and still had a ball, second time we put the mix in the machine faster and they came out even more perfect, took us about 30 min to cook a whole box of cake mix, by the time the next batch was ready the previous one was alrwady eaten, we were able to pile up the last 4 or 5 batches for a nice pic,Now the top part does not cook as much cause it takes time to expand and touch the heated mold, but if you want the cake to be a golden brown all around all you got to do is open the machine 2 minutes in spin the cake over and let cook with the top open for another 2 minutes.These cake balls are prety small i would say the size of a quarter.Personally we ate theme with no icing or anything almost like doughnut balls.We also tried sticking a peice of chocolate inside before closing the top part and it works great the chocolate fell the the center and the cake puffed up all around it.As for the cleaning nothing a small peice of damp paper towel cant fix just had a few drops of oil that leaked the back of the machine.Hope this helps ppl who are hesitating on buying this.I love this thing and would use it so much more for so many things if it wasn't so aggravating to clean. Removable plates would give it 5 stars in every way. If they did removable plates i'd buy another for myself and gift one to the family members that keep asking me how I make my breakfast balls and pizza poppers.GREAT FOR TAKOYAKI TOO!!!It didn't stick, really easy to cook. HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!Worked great. I suggest letting the unit preheat a little longer than required and allow the batter to rest for 10-15 minutes before using. We used a store bought cake mix but dialed back slightly on wet ingredients to form the batter a bit. It called for three eggs so we used two and scaled back on other wet ingredients just a bit. You want the consistency of pancake batterUne petite machine facile d'utilisation et à cuisson rapide. Franchement, j'ai été agréablement surprise. Je me suis amusée à faire de délicieuses bouchées de gâteaux et de beignes et le résultat a été parfait. Au début, il faut tester le temps de cuisson, c'est normal. Pour mes recettes, mon temps de cuisson était de 6 à 8 minutes./ An amazing little machine, very easy tu use and fast cooking. I was delighted. I cooked mini cake and donut and the result was perfect. At first, you will have to adjust cooking time. For my recipes, I had to cook for 6 to 8 minutes.As this is sold on Amazon UK it should highlight that you need an adaptor.Hermosa máquina, las bolitas que crea son de aproximadamente 2-3 cm , están en 3 min aproximadamante y las volteo de lado para q se terminen de cocinar y las dejo 1 min más . Les dejo la receta q ocupo acá abajo:°500g de harina de pastel (la que deses ocupar)°3 huevos°una mantequilla chica (entera)°una tasa de leche carnationRevólver todo con batidora hasta no dejar grumos y ya empezar hacer las bolitas.Buen suerte