Mr Kipling's cakes are always yummy! (Mr Kipling Bakewell Slices)

Member Name: SusanLesley

Product:	Mr Kipling Bakewell Slices
Date:	28/09/09 (110 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Taste gorgeous, not too expensive

Disadvantages: They have calories!!!

At the weekend Dave and I were manning a stall selling Lifeboat souvenirs at our local theatre, Venue Cymru, where there was a Rotary Conference.

Clearly we needed to take some snacks with us to keep us going and I decided to get a packet of Mr Kipling Bakewell Slices amongst other things.

They currently cost £1.30 for a packet containing six slices and when I bought them last week they were on off at two packs for £2.30. This particular offer has now finished but the offers on Mr Kipling cakes are a regular feature of the Tesco shelves!

There are a good variety of slices in this range including carrot cakes (which I also bought), lemon slices, angel slices, country slices, chocolate slices and almond slices.

The outer container is a long slim cardboard box with a picture of one of the Bakewell Slices on the top together with the information that these cakes contain no artificial colours or flavours and that they contain 'a fruity raspberry flavoured plum jam filling'. It does beg the question - why not just use raspberry jam and be done with it but I am sure there must be a good reason!

On the front of the box there are the little boxes which give you the basic nutritional information per slice as a percentage of the adult recommended daily allowance.

Of course the wording also reminds us - lest we had forgotten - that the cakes are 'exceedingly good'!

On the back of the box there is a full list of ingredients, comprehensive nutritional information, allergy advice, recycling advice and the quality guarantees.

Inside the box the slices are further wrapped in three sets of two. Each pair are in a plastic tray and wrapped in cellophane - all of which I put in the recycling bag.

The little trays were ideal for carrying the cakes with us to the conference and were also ideal for serving the cakes when we fancied our snack.

Each cake is about five inches long by about an inch wide and is made up of a layer of light pastry covered with the raspberry flavoured plum jam filling and topped with moist almond flavoured sponge. The top of each slice is finished off with a smooth layer of white fondant icing decorated with a swirl of chocolate. Even better - there is no hydrogenated fat in these cakes.

As you lift each cake from the plastic container you can feel the softness of the sponge and smell the aroma of the almond and the whole thing looks and smells extremely tempting.

So now we know what they look like and what's in them what do they taste like?

The answer to that is, as you would expect, exceedingly good! The flavours and textures of the sponge, jam, icing and pastry mingle together in my mouth perfectly and whilst I limited myself to one slice at a time I could easily have eaten more!

The taste is sweet but not sickly, the pastry is indeed light, the jam is thick and sweet, the sponge is moist with just enough almond flavouring and the icing is sweet and sticky to finish the whole thing off perfectly.

The nutritional values are best expressed per slice and they aren't too scary!

Calories 157
Protein 1.5g
Carbohydrate 22.6g
Of which sugars 15.7g
Fat 6.7g
Of which saturates 3.1g
Fibre 0.5g
Salt 0.15g

So, in conclusion, the cakes tasted absolutely glorious and were just the thing to keep my blood sugar up whilst we were working hard selling souvenirs but obviously, as a diabetic, I would only ever east one at a time!

If you can resist the temptation to eat more than one these would be a great treat when dieting too at 157 calories and just over 21p per cake that's not too bad at all!

Summary: A lovely snack!