Donna Hay Chocolate Cupcake Kit
What’s your take on box cake mixes? It appears that you either love them or hate them. For those that hate them, the general idea is that box cake mixes are not made of anything natural and leave a chemical aftertaste. If you love them though, you probably love them because you believe it’s quick and easy, and maybe you love how light and airy they are.
My take? I wouldn’t pass up a slice of cake made from a box, but when it comes to making a cake, I’d rather do it from scratch. I also think that it doesn’t take much longer to make a cake from scratch than it does from a box, so if you’ve got the ingredients to make a cake from scratch, do it!
There’s something therapeutic and calming for me when making a cake from scratch (when my kids are not “helping” me, that is!) and I just can’t get that same feeling with a box cake mix. That said though, I do love box brownie mixes!
Anyway, last week I stopped in a relatively new shop called Thomas Dux, which sells a lot of organic and gourmet products. The main aisle I was interested in was the baking aisle, and there I found a range of Donna Hay box mixes – cupcakes, cookies and brownies. What intrigued me about these mixes is that instead of the usual oil, eggs and water that you’d find in an average box mix, the Donna Hay box mixes required butter, eggs and milk. I picked up the chocolate cupcake box!
