Donna Hay’s Molten Brownie Kit

When I made Donna Hay’s Chocolate Cupcake Mix, I promised you I’d eventually try out more of her dessert kits. For this post I chose the Molten Chocolate Chunk Brownie Kit. The picture of the brownies on the box looks to-die-for, which is why I chose these over the Chocolate Chip Cookie Kit (which I’m sure will be next).

Donna Hay’s chocolate cupcakes from the kit were pretty good, but I was disappointed in the frosting. There wasn’t enough of it, and it turned out much lighter in color than the frosting on the box, which was so dark it looked like fudge. Also, the wrappers kept peeling away from the cupcakes, which was quite annoying.

I wasn’t much happier with the brownies. All that is required to make the brownies is some butter and eggs, then you whisk it into the dry ingredients from the kit. After whisking, you mix the chocolate chunks in.

Now, the whisking was quite difficult! The mixture was so thick that it got caught in my whisk and I couldn’t whisk it properly. I would suggest using a spoon instead.

My next problem was that I couldn’t get the brownies to get properly cooked without the edges becoming too hard. My brownies looked under-baked in the middle and over-baked on the edges, which were very hard.

And once again, my end product does not look like the picture on the box, just as in the chocolate cupcakes. In fact, the other recipes I have made from Donna Hay never end up looking like the photos (this includes a chicken dish and a meatballs dish). Which is a little odd.

The brownies tasted nice on the day of baking, although I have had better, and also I have made better from scratch. But I did not like them at all on the second day. They became stale rather quickly and even a short blast in the microwave didn’t refresh them well enough for me.

While I did recommend Donna Hay’s Chocolate Cupcake Kit, I wouldn’t recommend her Molten Chocolate Chunk Brownie Mix. I can only hope the Chocolate Chip Cookie Kit will end my disappointment with the previous two kits, especially the brownies!

Have you tried the Molten Brownie Kit? What did you think?

You can find Donna Hay’s dessert kits at Thomas Dux and David Jones (for $13.95), Little Betsy Baker (for $14.95) and Donna Hay’s website (for $15.95).