I do not generally buy packet cake mixes because I know full well I can make cakes quite well from scratch. However, when I discovered that Anna Polyviou, a pastry chef at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney, had teamed up with Greens to produce a couple of different cupcake packet mixes, I was keen to try them out.
There are two different cupcake mixes designed by Anna - Raspberry Trifle and Lolly Gobble Caramel varieties, sold exclusively at Coles supermarkets:
All of the dry ingredients to make the cupcakes are included in the box - you just need to add the wet ingredients at home. I was pretty excited when I discovered that the box even contained these groovy Anna-print cupcake papers:
I tried out the Raspberry Trifle Cupcakes first. They comprise a vanilla cupcake:
swirled with raspberry jam:
baked:
filled with custard:
then decorated with custard-flavoured whipped cream, and crowned with an optional fresh raspberry:
I loved these cupcakes - they tasted so fresh with the cream on top, which was not overly sweet and balanced the sweet cupcake beneath.
I would happily make these again, and judging by the response to these at work, people would happily eat them again.
4 comments:
They sound like they were a real hit! So did you just have to add eggs and milk?
I am not a big fan of box mixes as I feel they don't do that much extra - though I know sometimes they can make it easier (esp with GF baking). Your cupcakes look gorgeous - that cream topping is so perfect.
You also need butter, and fresh cream for the topping.
Thanks!
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