Betty Crocker Chocolate Chunk Muffin Mix

...chopping trip to Asda, the Betty Crocker range had some special offers on and I found this mix for Chocolate Chunk Muffin Mix for £1 so I thought that I'd give it a try.

BETTY CROCKER

'Betty Crocker' is a range of baking products that are part of the American General Mills Group.

Now the list of products produced as 'Betty Crocker' is huge, most of teh though only available in the US, although the products ...
...has never actually been a Betty Crocker - Betty Crocker is an invented name that is a registered trade name. The name was first developed in 1921, the forename Betty was selected because it was viewed as a cheery, All-American name. It was paired with the last name Crocker, in honour of William Crocker, a company director.

==BETTY CROCKER CHOCOLATE CHUNK MUFFIN MIX==

==THE PACKAGE==

The package - measuring ... more

School holidays usually bring around baking days for my 13 year old son and 7 year grandson.

They usually make cakes, scones and biscuits from recipes but if, when shopping, I come across a baking mix that is reasonably priced I often buy them for the boys as a change.

This is what happened on a recent chopping trip to Asda, the Betty Crocker range had some special offers on and I found this mix for Chocolate Chunk Muffin Mix for £1 so I thought that I'd give it a try.

BETTY CROCKER

'Betty Crocker' is a range of baking products that are part of the American General Mills Group.

Now the list of products produced as 'Betty Crocker' is huge, most of teh though only available in the US, although the products have gained a lotof popularity in Britain.

There has never actually been a Betty Crocker - Betty Crocker is an invented name that is a registered trade name. The name was first developed in 1921, the forename Betty was selected because it was viewed as a cheery, All-American name. It was paired with the last name Crocker, in honour of William Crocker, a company director.

BETTY CROCKER CHOCOLATE CHUNK MUFFIN MIX

THE PACKAGE

The package - measuring 8" x 6" - is bright red and yellow with two appetising pictures of the finished muffins on the front - one complete and one half eaten, so that you can see the size of the pieces of chocolate in the finished muffin.

It was bought in May and had a sell by date of 09 01 10 - so a fairly decent shelf life.

Across the package are the words 'Just add water' which did tempt me to purchase the product as it meant there was no added expense in the form of milk, egg or oil.

The back of the package had very clear cooking instructions.

BAKING THE MUFFINS

In the package was a sachet of muffin mix and four paper muffin cases.

The boys had no problems following thje instructions on the package, they were very simple to make and I wasn't consulted in any way in the process.
All they had to do was stir the mixture with 105ml of watter to make a lumpy batter ( the package does tell you that it should be lumpy)

The cases can be put in a muffin tin or an a baking tray, we haven't a large muffin tray so my son put the cases on a baking tray ( a tip here that I have taught him over the years - with any paper cake cases that are put on a flat baking sheet, never let the cases touch each other or the cakes will be misshapen and the mixture will come out in cooking)
The cases did look a bit squashed but when the batter went in they took the shape and looked sturdy.
They were baked in the middle of the oven ( 200/ 400/6) for about 20 minutes.

As they cooked there was a delicious chocolate aroma in the kitchen.

THE FINISHED PRODUCT

The muffins looked delicious when they came out of the oven - the mixture had made four very good sized muffins, and the smell was delicious.

The boys had to wait for five tantalising minutes while the muffins cooled before they could eat them.

THE TASTE

I never got as far as having a full muffin to myself, but my son did allow me to taste them both warm and when fully cooled.

WARM
They were wonderful!! They had a very rich chocolate taste in the muffin itself and were full of both white and brown chocolate chunks. While the muffin was warm this chocolate was gooey and delicious - would have been superb with a scoop of good vanilla ice cream!!

COLD they were equally as delicious - very soft, chocolaty, rich and whith the chocolate chunks now hard.

The mix can be made into smaller muffins using 12 ordinary cake cases - I think I would do this if I made them again as they are quite rich.

The muffin mix does contain wheat, soya egg and milks so not suitable for people with any tolerances to these.

My only critiscism of the product is that ther are no nutritional values on the pack and I'm sure they must be a dieters nightmare!!!

Otherwise I would really recommend them.

Summary: A fantastic muffin for 25p
 

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