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This anime is so bad it forced me to write my first review on MAL. The basic outline of the story is the reincarnation of a patissier into a medieval world, where we meet him by the name of Pastry Mille Morteln. Our protagonist is a wanna-be Willy Wonka, since he wants to create a land of sweets (see: Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory and the Room of Sweets).

Plot:
To say the plot deviated from its original pathway is a gross understatement. The original goal of this character is to make sweets, yet we see so little of any sweet making. Pastry made some hard candies, ... candy apples, apple pies, a tarte tatin, and a cheesecake. There were no intriguing details about why Pastry wants to make a land of sweets except, "I want to see a smile on people's face"
Honestly, this dialogue is repeated so often, it's stuck in my head now. If this 9-year old child wants to make sweets, then why is the plot throwing him into wars and poltical conflicts? There was even an engagement, where Pastry is engaged off to our air-headed female lead Licorice. There's even a misunderstanding to spice things up, where a grown woman tries to seduce a 9-year old boy. I don't know how to express my disappointment and disgust.
Pastry has the magic ability to "Replicate" which should have been explained better because doesn't it sound like he can duplicate anything he sees? Like turning one apple into two apples, or turning one sack of gold into two sacks of gold. Wrong! He can replicate one thing onto another thing, such as image on a cloth, or teleportation spell on himself. He cannot duplicate items, which is a rather useless ability to give to a supposedly OP main character.

Characters:
This anime had the most hilarious names in the history of names. You have a story of the reincarnation of a patissier, I wonder what could his name be in the new world? Eureka! It's "Pastry". Oh, I wonder what his love interest could be named? You get "Licorice"!
The father is named Casserole, a bandit is named Strudel, and the main villain is named Brioche. I can't even make this up! Just how lazy do you need to be when naming to get this cast of characters?
We do not get any background of these characters, which makes them appear like a generic cast of nobodies plucked from a box and fitted in the story simply to get the story going. Pastry is supposed to have 5 older sisters but we only see Josephine, his next older sister. Pastry's mother and sister are shallow characters, as in, they only care about dresses and love. We learn nothing about Pastry's life before the reincarnation. There is nothing aout Pastry's parents or their life story. We don't even know why our female lead developed such a complex inferiority syndrome while she was doted upon by her father equally as her twin Petra.
How does Pastry's parents justify sending a 9-year old into war? I don't care if he's the main protagonist, he's still just a boy. It is iterated in the anime that Pastry does not have a buff body (he's 9 years old) so how is he parrying adults with years of experience with a sword?

Art Style:
The art style is reminiscent of animes like "Ascendance of a Bookworm" and "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime" which is what attracted me to start this anime in the first place. Not too shabby in that regards, and the sha-la-la effects were nicely done. However, during several scenes, the background characters would be drawn without any faces, which was severely disconcerting. Let us say for the benefit of doubt that background characters don't need faces. However, even our cast of main characters would be drawn without faces while they were in the foreground of a scene. I suppose the animation studio had very limited budget so they spent it all on the first episode drawing all the fancy candy sculptures.

Music/OST:
A generic feel good music track, showing all the characters and all the sweets that Pastry wishes to make. Nothing too extraordinary.

Conclusion:
A waste of time that I only completed because I refuse to leave an anime as DNF.
2/10 stars.