Original Cake Company bargain??

[Cashers]

Currently they have 10 Spring Muffins for £20.16 plus £5.95 p&p. They do look beautifully decorated but not at that price. So with the p&p that works out at £2.60 per muffin. I occasionally treat myself to a pack of similar sized Tesco Finest Muffins that are £1.95 for two and they are yummy. So I could buy 13 packs (26 muffins) for the total price of the QVC ones.

Wow! Have you seen the 4 flapjack for a bargain price of £7.04 EACH!!! Ok, they are 290g so you can easily cut each into 2, making each piece a mere £3.52!! Have a look at the ingredients too. White chocolate flavour etc. I'm sure that I could easily make a big tray of delicious flapjack using quality ingredients for the cost of one of theirs. And I agree Batti, Tescos finest muffins are delish!! I'd love to know how many of their goods Cake Co actually sell. I personally think that the prices are extortionate, but maybe I'm just mean.

 

[Battiola73]

Wow! Have you seen the 4 flapjack for a bargain price of £7.04 EACH!!! Ok, they are 290g so you can easily cut each into 2, making each piece a mere £3.52!! Have a look at the ingredients too. White chocolate flavour etc. I'm sure that I could easily make a big tray of delicious flapjack using quality ingredients for the cost of one of theirs. And I agree Batti, Tescos finest muffins are delish!! I'd love to know how many of their goods Cake Co actually sell. I personally think that the prices are extortionate, but maybe I'm just mean.

I gave up watching as I was getting cross with the prices. I’m not a great lover of flapjacks but do like Tesco Finest Granola squares. They’re £2 for 4 and sometimes on special offer at £1.50. The Sicilian Lemon muffins are my favourite.

 

[merryone]

Wow! Have you seen the 4 flapjack for a bargain price of £7.04 EACH!!! Ok, they are 290g so you can easily cut each into 2, making each piece a mere £3.52!! Have a look at the ingredients too. White chocolate flavour etc. I'm sure that I could easily make a big tray of delicious flapjack using quality ingredients for the cost of one of theirs. And I agree Batti, Tescos finest muffins are delish!! I'd love to know how many of their goods Cake Co actually sell. I personally think that the prices are extortionate, but maybe I'm just mean.

I had to have a look after reading that but they look so heavy and sickly I'd reckon you'd only want to eat a small amount at a time, so I reckon you'd get 4 manageable slices out of each one which would give you 16 flapjack bars for your £29 which is frankly ridiculous! My main observation on this collection is why? I mean talk about gilding the lily - flapjacks are delicious in their simplicity and whilst I'm not adverse to adding a few raisins to the mix - who in their right mind would want to top them with sickly chocolate and sweets? They're enough as they are, and of course you can make them for pennies!

 

[Grizelda]

I had to have a look after reading that but they look so heavy and sickly I'd reckon you'd only want to eat a small amount at a time, so I reckon you'd get 4 manageable slices out of each one which would give you 16 flapjack bars for your £29 which is frankly ridiculous! My main observation on this collection is why? I mean talk about gilding the lily - flapjacks are delicious in their simplicity and whilst I'm not adverse to adding a few raisins to the mix - who in their right mind would want to top them with sickly chocolate and sweets? They're enough as they are, and of course you can make them for pennies!

I've never had a flapjack. A deprived childhood, maybe! I love everything and anything sweet, so I wouldn't mind if they were full of chocolate. Although expensive, all the Cake Company's cakes looked delicious to me and made my mouth water. (The BA has lost a lot of weight. Maybe he's given up sampling his own products.)

 

[madaunty]

I've never had a flapjack. A deprived childhood, maybe! I love everything and anything sweet, so I wouldn't mind if they were full of chocolate. Although expensive, all the Cake Company's cakes looked delicious to me and made my mouth water. (The BA has lost a lot of weight. Maybe he's given up sampling his own products.)

Really, as Judge Judy would say, “ridiculous” .
You really need to attend to this as soon as possible. Proper flapjacks are wonderful things, and they have oats in them, which is fibre, so good for you as well (just ignore the rest of the ingredients).

 

[Grizelda]

Really, as Judge Judy would say, “ridiculous” .
You really need to attend to this as soon as possible. Proper flapjacks are wonderful things, and they have oats in them, which is fibre, so good for you as well (just ignore the rest of the ingredients).

Yes, your honour. Straight away, me lud. I'll Google a recipe.

 

[ohnonotshoppingagain]

I used to love baking but because I am diabetic people tell me I can still bake, however, I have to substitute ingredients which so far I have not done. Apparently I have to use oat flour instead of ordinary flour because of the carbohydrate content, sonI will need to get a dive.nnAlso sugar substitute.

 

[Choosi5050]

Currently they have 10 Spring Muffins for £20.16 plus £5.95 p&p. They do look beautifully decorated but not at that price. So with the p&p that works out at £2.60 per muffin. I occasionally treat myself to a pack of similar sized Tesco Finest Muffins that are £1.95 for two and they are yummy. So I could buy 13 packs (26 muffins) for the total price of the QVC ones.

Well I bake quite a lot but on a whim decided to buy one of their cake offerings. Awful awful awful. Dry as the proverbial desert and enough baking powder to bake a cake the size of the Blackpool tower. Really really disappointed and very cross. I think they’re a rip off. I’ll stick with my own. They’re very simple sponge cakes but at least they’re moist, edible and don’t contain baking powder!

 

[Battiola73]

Before I retired I used to bake lots of cakes and take them in to the office. They were popular and my colleagues would frequently pay for the ingredients and put their requests in. Nothing fancy usually just a Victoria sponge, carrot cake or coffee and walnut. Most popular was my coffee chocolate cake, I layer coffee sponge and 1 layer of chocolate sponge and a coffee mocha buttercream filling.

 

[historymystery]

I gave up watching as I was getting cross with the prices. I’m not a great lover of flapjacks but do like Tesco Finest Granola squares. They’re £2 for 4 and sometimes on special offer at £1.50. The Sicilian Lemon muffins are my favourite.

The Lemon muffins are delish, but muffins and flapjacks are not difficult to make yourself and Q's cakes are a complete rip off. I've never succumbed to a cake from Q, but have eaten a slice from one bought by a friend - like Choosi5050, she decided to see whether all the hype they come out with was true. Er, no, it was definitely hype in this case. The cake was OK, pleasant enough but very crumbly and didn't taste any better than a supermarket one, and considering the price was so much higher, the experiment wasn't repeated. I bet a lot of people buy once and never again.

 

[historymystery]

Before I retired I used to bake lots of cakes and take them in to the office. They were popular and my colleagues would frequently pay for the ingredients and put their requests in. Nothing fancy usually just a Victoria sponge, carrot cake or coffee and walnut. Most popular was my coffee chocolate cake, I layer coffee sponge and 1 layer of chocolate sponge and a coffee mocha buttercream filling.

Carrot cake every time! Although rather partial to coffee and walnut or lemon, too....

 

[Brissles]

Tomorrow Im hosting a girly afternoon. A tv filmed theatre performance of 42nd Street - filmed at Drury Lane Theatre in 2018. I saw it 4 times.
Anyway, it's popcorn, ice cream tubs at interval and tea and cakes afterwards.

For a fraction of qvc cost I'm cooking 10 chocolate muffin cupcakes and pressing a Raffaelo (coconut Ferrero rocha) into the middle of the mixture and topping with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Divine if I do say so myself !

 

[Cashers]

Tomorrow Im hosting a girly afternoon. A tv filmed theatre performance of 42nd Street - filmed at Drury Lane Theatre in 2018. I saw it 4 times.
Anyway, it's popcorn, ice cream tubs at interval and tea and cakes afterwards.

For a fraction of qvc cost I'm cooking 10 chocolate muffin cupcakes and pressing a Raffaelo (coconut Ferrero rocha) into the middle of the mixture and topping with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Divine if I do say so myself !

Sounds like a lovely afternoon Brissles. I don't eat chocolate cake but those muffins do sound delicious!

 

[Craftalot]

The Lemon muffins are delish, but muffins and flapjacks are not difficult to make yourself and Q's cakes are a complete rip off. I've never succumbed to a cake from Q, but have eaten a slice from one bought by a friend - like Choosi5050, she decided to see whether all the hype they come out with was true. Er, no, it was definitely hype in this case. The cake was OK, pleasant enough but very crumbly and didn't taste any better than a supermarket one, and considering the price was so much higher, the experiment wasn't repeated. I bet a lot of people buy once and never again.

Those lemon ones are a bit of a favourite in our household, too. One of the Tesco's near us doesn't sell the lemon one, but instead does a cherry an almond one which is almost as nice.

 

[ohnonotshoppingagain]

Before my husband died I baked a lot so I bought a high end Kenwood mixer with all the attachments and gizmos because I knew it wouldn't go to waste it cost me around £500 so after he died I put it away (I was not diabetic then) because I wouldn't be using it. Last week because I discovered I could diabetic bake I brought it back out. However I have still to do so. Kenwood is a great British company, I still have a Kenwood electric hand mixer that was a wedding present in 1970 and I use it all the time, it has never been for a repair in all these years. I need to do my research to get diabetic recipes. The thing diabetics have to watch is carbohydrates this means we cannot use ordinary plain or self raising flour and you need to use sugar substitute, so the search goes on.

 

[Battiola73]

Tomorrow Im hosting a girly afternoon. A tv filmed theatre performance of 42nd Street - filmed at Drury Lane Theatre in 2018. I saw it 4 times.
Anyway, it's popcorn, ice cream tubs at interval and tea and cakes afterwards.

For a fraction of qvc cost I'm cooking 10 chocolate muffin cupcakes and pressing a Raffaelo (coconut Ferrero rocha) into the middle of the mixture and topping with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Divine if I do say so myself !

I saw 42nd Street at the London Colosseum starring Frankie Vaughan. Also saw it performed at The Chichester Festival Theatre around 15 years ago.

 

[Choosi5050]

Sounds like a lovely afternoon Brissles. I don't eat chocolate cake but those muffins do sound delicious!

They sound absolutely delicious. I think you should contact the QVC buyers, bag yourself a slot, calculate the cost per cake, treble it, charge £5.99 p&p and get rich quick

 

[historymystery]

Those lemon ones are a bit of a favourite in our household, too. One of the Tesco's near us doesn't sell the lemon one, but instead does a cherry an almond one which is almost as nice.

You've made my day - now I'm going to seek out the cherry and almond ones too! All this talk of cakes is making me so hungry (well, I did have lunch an hour ago....)

 

[Grizelda]

Yes, your honour. Straight away, me lud. I'll Google a recipe

Well I bake quite a lot but on a whim decided to buy one of their cake offerings. Awful awful awful. Dry as the proverbial desert and enough baking powder to bake a cake the size of the Blackpool tower. Really really disappointed and very cross. I think they’re a rip off. I’ll stick with my own. They’re very simple sponge cakes but at least they’re moist, edible and don’t contain baking powder!

When I've used baking powder, I've noticed a bitter taste.

Tomorrow Im hosting a girly afternoon. A tv filmed theatre performance of 42nd Street - filmed at Drury Lane Theatre in 2018. I saw it 4 times.
Anyway, it's popcorn, ice cream tubs at interval and tea and cakes afterwards.

For a fraction of qvc cost I'm cooking 10 chocolate muffin cupcakes and pressing a Raffaelo (coconut Ferrero rocha) into the middle of the mixture and topping with chocolate cream cheese frosting. Divine if I do say so myself !

They sound divine. I hope they don't scoff the lot but leave you a few for later.