It’s been a while since I’ve popped into HomeSense, so on Thursday I decided to pay my favourite home shop a visit to buy a few treats for the Easter weekend. Needless to say I got a little carried away and ended up spending almost £25 on gluten free cake, pizza and pancake mixes, along with some cute new flowered and heart-shaped cupcake cases.
HomeSense really is an absolute goldmine for baking stuff, both gluten-filled and gluten free. It’s great value for money too, particularly when you consider how expensive gluten free food usually is. The cheapest mixes I bought on Thursday were just £1.99, and the most expensive were £3.99. Definitely not bad at all!
On Saturday Jake and I were battling serious chocolate cravings, and while we managed to narrow our options down from seven Hale & Hearty mixes to three, it took a while before we finally decided to start off with the chocolate brownies.
They were so easy to make. All we had to do was pour the mix into a mixing bowl, along with 100ml of milk, 200g of butter, and 2 eggs. After beating the life out of the mixture until it formed a thick but smooth batter, we poured it into a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper. We then popped it in the oven for about 25 minutes.
Oh! I almost forgot. We also added some white and milk chocolate chips from Sainsburys into the mixing bowl along with the regular ingredients. ‘Cause we’re just greedy like that.
As you can probably tell from the photo above, the chocolate brownies were absolutely lush! They were soft, gooey, and possibly up there in the Top 3 chocolate brownies I’ve ever tasted. It just goes to show that gluten free doesn’t mean bad!
Today, still on a high from the gorgeous brownies we made the other day, I decided to crack open another mix and make some lovely chocolate muffins while Jake was at work. It’s his birthday tomorrow so I bought some candles too.
Sadly, unlike the brownies, the muffins didn’t turn out quite as well. They taste great, there’s nothing wrong with the mix, but as you can see in the photo below, they don’t exactly look like muffins.
It was entirely my fault though. The packet said that the mix would make 8 muffins, but, worried that the mix would rise too much and spill over of the sides of the cases, I decided to make 12 muffins.
The result: perhaps the most underwhelming birthday cake(s) ever. Birthday Happy?! Oh, dear. They taste gorgeous though, and just like the brownies, you’d never have thought they were gluten free.
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