Held within the slim little box that arrived was a bag of ready made cupcake batter, icing, instructions, icing bags, nozzles, sweeties to decorate the cupcakes and bun cases! I was so excited about trying this out that I had kinda hoped that FD would leave me alone so I could play by myself, but no, she wanted to bake! So bake we did.
What was in the box!The instructions in the little booklet were pretty clear and we emptied the bag of batter into a mixing bowl as directed. FD really enjoyed squeezing the batter out of the bag as she said it was 'squidgy'! She did however try to eat the batter so it was a case of keeping it out of her mouth and making sure most of it went in the bowl! All we then had to do was add 2 eggs and mix! Simple! FD really enjoys the cracking eggs part of baking so that was a huge success. She stood for a few minutes with her whisk and happily mixed her batter!
Once in the oven it is very hard not to keep checking on whether the buns are rising. The smell was lovely and it was so tempting to open the oven door! Once they came out of the oven we had the agonising wait for them to cool so we could decorate them.
I was quite pleased with how they came out because I cannot bake to save my life!!! They were lovely and spongey!
When they had cooled suitably we attempted to do fancy swirly icing with the piping bags and nozzles. Now this is where I hit a snag. I've never used piped icing before in my life and as you can see from the pics, it shows! But the most important thing out of it all was that FD totally enjoyed doing it. Yes we messed up and yes Delia would have had a heartattack at our piping efforts but we enjoyed ourselves immensely and I think this was surely the whole point of the exercise! Maybe with a bit of practice we can make our cupcakes look professional! Just didn't happen this time. More down to my lack of skill rather than the product! Those of you who are really good at baking are probably laughing at my efforts! Please have pity! And, of course, the cupcakes passed the taste test. Lovely with a cuppa or a big glass of milk! FD found the lemon icing a little too zesty but I thought it was lovely! Would love to try the strawberry icing next time I think and decorate with real Strawberries. Yum!
Now, a little about the Real Cup Cake Company. They can be found at www.therealcupcakecompany.co.uk where their kits can be purchased online. The kit we were provided with was from the NICE range and had Lemon icing. which was very zesty!!! Was scrummy! This one was priced at £9.99. Other kits start at £4.99. Pretty good value for money I thought as I had bought some similar cupcakes a few weeks ago from a bakery and they cost me a fortune! I would really recommend buying one of these kits. The company offer a great range of products so go and check them out! The website offers great advice / instructions with videos too! Its all pretty cool! Their products are dairy free so ideal for those with specific diet requirements. Real fruit is used and there are no artificial colourings or flavourings. Sounds pretty perfect to me!
*I did not receive any payment for writing this review. The kit was provided by The Real Cupcake Company.*
1 comment:
Love it! And having received similar comments from my own H.E. teacher and so avoided baking at all costs, I am VERY impressed by your efforts! They do look yummy too. :)
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