Mr Kipling exceedingly good cakes? (Mr Kipling Angel Slices)

Member Name: adam171275

Product:	Mr Kipling Angel Slices
Date:	19/03/09 (122 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: nice tasting, not too exspensive

Disadvantages: can't taste vanilla filling and not big enough

You cannot beat a nice piece of cake or biscuit with your mid morning cuppa, the only thing you need to decide is which one? In our house we don't buy much cakes, biscuits or sweets but we will have the odd packet or two for when the sweet cravings set in.


This week we have Mr kipling angel slices which we brought from Tesco for £1.36, they are also on offer at the moment at 2 for £2.30. The price I feel is fairly reasonable, if you look at other cakes on the market they are around the same price unless you go for the supermarket value brands.


The box is small and fairly flat with an eye catching design on the front, it can only be described as reddish pink, with the Mr Kipling label and an appetising picture of the cake slice on it. The Mr Kipling brand label alone will get you looking, ask most people to name a cake brand and I'm sure they would say Mr Kipling. It has sufficient information on the packet; it has nutritional information, ingredients and also guideline daily amounts. They claim to have no artificial flavours or colours which are a bonus especially when it comes to children. It also states that it has no hydrogenated fat which again is great. Each slice has 148 calories and 6.6 g of fat which isn't too bad if you think a child needs on average 1800 calories a day and 70g of fat, one slice really isn't going to be that bad for a child.

There are 6 slices in each box; the slices are wrapped individually in twos in a plastic tray covered in plastic film. This is great for freshness of the cakes but maybe a little heavy on the packaging, although it does state on the packet that the box and plastic tray is recyclable it's only the plastic foil that's not, so you could say that they got this bit covered!

The cakes themselves are rather small; they are perfect for little ones but as an adult one is definitely not enough. I'm 6 foot 4 and have a good appetite so I could eat 4 in one sitting, my wife can eat 2, this would be the whole box gone and that's without the children having any.


The cakes are a mixture of half pink sponge and half yellow sponge with a vanilla filling and a layer of white fondant icing. When biting into them the sponge is real nice and soft and the taste is lovely and sweet but not sickly. I feel that you can almost taste how fresh the cakes are. The icing on the top is perfect not to thick not too thin, what I like to do with this is peel it off in one layer and eat the icing on its own, if you don't like icing this would not be a cake for you. My only grumble is that the vanilla filling is almost invisible, you really can't taste much of the vanilla when you bite into the cake and to be honest can't see it much neither. I feel the vanilla filling for me needs to be a lot thicker, what's the point of adding something that you can't taste? If you look on the box it actually states on the front that the slices have a delicious vanilla filling I do think this is a little misleading.



To sum it up they are a great slice for not a bad price, not too high in fat and calories and a nice treat when the sugar craving kicks in. Kids love them but need to be a bit bigger to satisfy an adult, they taste very fresh but need to have a little more vanilla filling in the centre of the slice.

Summary: great to satisfy a sweet craving