Recipes & Tips — baking

Father's Day is just around the corner and we have the perfect treat for Dad! Chocolate Stout Brownies- these are super moist and dense and are reminiscent of a sticky date pudding. Adding beer into your baking adds a wonderful depth of flavour, these brownies are an awesome combination of rich and fudgy and are simply irresistible. Dad or just about anyone will be thrilled with the results. Ingredients: 1 egg 1 cup Moa Stout ( the rest is for the chef!) 1/4 cup oil or butter 1 SKK Brownie Mix Heat oven to 180 c. Mix all ingredients together in a bowl. Line a...

One of our favourite things on earth is a good lemon ricotta cake. So imagine our utter happiness when we came across this recipe that one of our retailers LeeAnn Yare created using our Buttermilk Pancake Mix. Easy One Bowl Lemon Ricotta Cake 1 pack approximately SKK pancake mix 1 1/4-1/2 cups warm water 250gr tub soft ricotta 3 heaped Tbsp vanilla collagen protein powder (optional) 1/4 cup lemon juice Grated rind of one lemon 1/2 cup lemon curd Icing sugar to dust Ice cream/whipped cream/yoghurt/mascarpone to serve In a large bowl whisk gently until combined the pancake mix +...

We are down with icing. All the icing. Buttercream, Coffee, Chocolate, you name it.  But there's one type of icing that lends itself sooooo well to any and every piece of baking. Peanut Butter.  Specifically Fix and Fogg Peanut butters, just any of them! They're all unbelievably tasty and such an easy way to add different flavours to baking and can really add an extra level of awesome. But for this recipe, we just went with regular Smooth Peanut butter. We made Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Dark Chocolate Cake Mix into mini cupcakes, topped with a generous portion of Peanut Butter Icing....mmmm! This is the...

Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Chocolate Cake Mix produces an epic tasting dessert as is. However, if you'd like to "next level" it with some unbelievable buttercream, this is the recipe for you. This buttercream is light and fluffy, almost like a mousse. It really is the most delicious icing we have ever tried. The secret is not in the ingredients- although good quality butter, cocoa and vanilla will elevate the taste. The secret my friends...is the whipping! Yup, the more you whip it, the yummier it becomes. So, put the butter in your bowl and whip for at least 3 minutes at high speed. Hopefully...