Good Cook Pumpkin Carving Kit Review & Giveaway (4 winners)!

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I have a confession to make. I dislike carving pumpkins...with a passion. I have never liked doing it and usually settle for the most generic pumpkin face since my husband and kids insist that we each decorate our own pumpkins. However, this year I was feeling a little more festive and decided that I would give the Sweet Creations by Good Cook Pumpkin Carving Kit a try. The kit comes with everything (but the pumpkin) you need to have a pumpkin that looks professionally designed to include: 10 paper stencils, 2 saws, 1 scraper, 1 drill and 1 punch wheel.

Review: The book had a lot of great ideas to choose from - so many that I had a hard time selecting one. I ultimately decided on a witch (I am a huge fan of Wicked) and did not realize that the difficulty level was on the harder side.  Even with the difficulty level, I braced myself for my carving challenge. I loved the carving tools - I made much more control than with the steak knives I currently use. However, all four of us were using the tools and the one saw snapped and completely broke off the plastic while my daughter was trying to carve her pumpkin. The scooper was AWESOME. There was a serrated edge on one size so you could not only scoop, but scrape to really get those "guts" out.  

The punch wheel was not my favorite tool. You are supposed to tape your template to the pumpkin and then use the wheel to outline the template and then follow the dots on the pumpkin to carve out the design. We don't have the greatest lighting in our living room and when my husband and I tried to do this, we could not really see the dots. I ended up just drawing my design on instead. The different sizes of the carving tools did make it much easier to do more intricate designs as opposed to using a knife. It was much easier with this method and I definitely will not ever go back to carving with knives! 

Our family's pumpkins: My daughter's pumpkin face, my witch, my husband's skeleton, and my son's question mark 

Buy it here: You can purchase the Sweet Creations by Good Cook Pumpkin Carving Kit for $6.99 PLUS you can get an additional 25% off any Sweet Creations Halloween product using the code PUMPKIN25.

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I was provided with the above mentioned product for the purpose of facilitating this review. All opinions expressed are my own.