Before becoming a mum just-add-an-egg baking kits werenβt something I knew anything about β it wasnβt a supermarket shelf I was familiar with because I preferred to bake everything from scratch.
Although BB and I often bake ourselves and weigh out all the ingredients, I do find baking kits a god send for emergency I-forgot-to-make-promised-preschool-leavers-party cupcakes to times when I canβt face or donβt have time for a complete kitchen clean afterwards, and a βcontrolledβ mess is much more preferable.
The only problem is those ready mixes often arenβt very healthy, and full of added ingredients that wouldnβt be there if you made the cupcakes or brownies yourself. So when Budgens asked me to review their new line of cake mixes it was refreshing to find a gluten-free brand which also uses wholemeal flower and natural ingredients.
Cookie Crumbles is a range of baking kits including everything from granola energy bars to sunny oat & raisin cookie mix. We tried out βawesomeβ gluten-free brownie mix and blueberry & vanilla muffin mix, and both were so easy (and mess-free) to put together.
The brownie mix simply requires the addition of butter and eggs, while the muffins needed eggs and oil (and muffin cases). BB seems to love baking with a baking kit as much as getting out all the individual ingredients, so I didnβt feel I was βfakingβ it or taking the easy option.
At Β£4.50 each the mixes certainly arenβt the cheapest on offer, but you know theyβre made from decent, natural ingredients and youβre going to get good quality cakes at the end of it.
Just the job for easy cakes, muffins and brownies for the school holidays. And aforementioned emergency I-forgot-to-make-promised-preschool-leavers-party cupcakes.
These sound great. I am with you, as much as we bake from scratch, sometimes a kit is just easier!
And these are genuinely good ingredientsx
These sound wonderful! I like they are not full of nasties….I would happily pay that price.
Me too – you get what you pay for!