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Supercook Sugar Flowers |
| Date: |
13/11/08 (175 review reads) |
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Advantages: Very handy, and 'were' very cheap.
Disadvantages: Has quite a chalky and crunchy taste. The dyes also run into the cream.
Supercook / Dr Oetker's 'Sugar Flowers'
What are they?
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A tub of Sugar flowers!
Special features?
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Usually used to decorate the cake, can also be used on iced buns, desserts and any other sweet treat. Colourful pretty little flowers (approx. 15-20mm) that come in lilac, pink, yellow, white and blue. And made from sugar, of course!
Any good?
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I'm not really too keen on these, but they are pretty handy when I can't be bothered to make my own. Depending on what you're after, these are quite basic, they are almost literally sugar moulded swirls with a dab of colour icing to help them resemble more of a flower. Anyone can actually make these if they could make up a decent sugar mixture -because just by looking at these, you can be sure that these were made just by simply squeezing some icing in an icing bag through a patterned nozzle.
Not sure if it was just the type of cream I was using, but the flowers don't appear to be colourfast - some of the colour does come off onto the cream, cake etc.
In term of taste, it does appear to vary - ironically they don't taste sweet, well, at least not to me...! They have very a mild taste of icing sugar but quite a few of them do have a bitter taste, particularly the yellow ones - I think this might be down the dyes or colourings that are used for them.
The flowers are 'dried' sugar (surprise, surprise...) so there is good crunch to them, I would probably describe them as quite 'chalky' and that for both in taste and texture.
Price?
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Only 9 p for a tub of 21g which equals around 30-35 flowers - that's pretty good I think!
I actually bought these a couple of months ago, and this review was also written then (half unfinished, of course...). I have since walked past these at Tesco's and they have gone up to 76p a tub - people haven't gone sweeping them off the shelves like they did when they were 9p from a few weeks ago, obviously.
Anything else?
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These sugar flowers also claim to be free from artificial colours and preservatives, artificial sweeteners, flavours and hydrogenated fats. It is also suitable for vegetarians
Brilliant and very handy - also good value for money when they were 9p - although considering the taste - I would still think twice about using them again. Definitely wouldn't buy them now though!
Thanks for reading, xx
İLeighsa 2008
Summary: Just about bearable when you really need them.
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