Insiders Betty Crocker Cookies & Cake Review

I've been trying the Betty Crocker range as part of my Insiders word of mouth campaign. I was lucky enough to receive a fantastic box of goodies to test and review including 1x Chocolate Chip Cookies Pouch,1x Chocolate Fudge Brownies, 20x Activity Flyers for half term ideas and 20x Vouchers for £1 off of all Betty Crocker products. The only question that remains is "Will it make my baking edible?"


To appease a grumpy five year old over the notion of skipping trick or treating (horrible weather in Scotland: not surprising in October!), I decided to break out the big guns. Chocolate chip cookies served up with a slab of Brownie. Halloween isn't exactly renowned for its lack of cavities so to heck with it.

The cookie mix was the first choice; easy to follow instructions, though I found the 30ml of water not enough and ended up adding about 60ml so that it actually combined into something other than a pile of dust.

I was reasonably chuffed with how these turned out despite coming a little close to burning them. They had a lovely crisp outside but a chewy interior and were very moreish (Seriously who thinks up these tiny portions!). 

Not a great pack size for a family of 5, or to fulfill my tea and biccy habit. But definitely suitable for a quick sweet treat for a small human.
Next up was the Chocolate Fudge Brownies. The ingredients seemed to mix much better, with no need to add anything extra. In no time at all we had a big bowl of gooey chocolate scented heaven.

My casserole dish was the only one that fitted the sizing instructions (cue future shopping trip!), which meant we had to have it the oven a bit longer to cook it all the way through.

The results were some great tasting but very gluey sticky goodness. It was cooked but the texture wasn't as 'cakey' as it should have been.
We still ate it all.

Now also in this box of calorific heaven were; 1x Vanilla Icing tub,1x Velvety Vanilla Cake Mix, 5x Betty Crocker ‘Baking with Kids’ Recipe cards, and finally 1x Campaign Guide.
I think I'll hit these on the next post though, rather than slip into a diabetic sugar coma.

And so I leave you, tea in hand, with some fun facts and links for those with interest in the history behind these boxes of housewives timesaving lifesavers.

At nearly 100 Betty Crocker was never a real person (The lies our society is based on!)

She was invented by the Washburn-Crosby Company, a flour milling company started in the late 1800’s that eventually became General Mills. Because of a newspaper competition. 

With almost 4.5 million Facebook followers and 30,000 Twitter followers she has been voted the 4th most recognisable brand of the 20th Century and is a blockbuster author.


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