Recipes & Tips — baking

Looking for a beautiful dinner party dessert that is super simple and easy to make? Try our spiced red wine skillet cake with poached pears. With hints of fall spices, this not too sweet yet decadent fruity dessert is the perfect centrepiece for your dessert table. Spiced redwine is used to poach the pears and then is added to the cake mix to create a rich and moist cake with a mysterious extra depth. We love making this dessert in a cast iron pan as the presentation is so gorgeous but any standard sized cake tin will do. Skillet desserts are great for...

Some days you want a succulent  moist cupcake. Sometimes you just need a cookie! It was a cookie day today.As luck would have it, Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Chocolate Cake and Cupcake mix doubles as cookie mix too...how awesome is that?Using SKK's cake mix and making it up just as you would for the cupcakes (which is one and a half cups water) we were able to quickly knock up these delicious chocolate cookies. Just one bowl and a few minutes of your time=outstanding cookies!A great tip when making cookies is to use an ice cream scoop to measure out he cookies equally. Pre heat you’re oven...

We love it when our customers not only shout us out but share their wonderful SKK #semihomemade creations. 💛 🍋 Last week Happy Tummy NZ- who you can find over on Instagram (@happytummynz) played around with our blondie mix and created this wonderful little blondie mix hack that we just adore.    "Last weekend, I tried making lemon blondies! If you've never heard of blondies, they're basically white chocolate brownies... I use the @secretkiwikitchen blondie mix that has coconut and brown sugar as a base. I added around 60 mls of lemon juice to the whisked egg and butter mixture before stirring in...

Cake Mix Oreo Bars are super yum! Soft chocolate cake filled with a layer of cream cheese frosting.   We are huge oreo fans! Our kids adore them too. Licking that delicious creamy filling, brings back all kinds of sweet childhood memories.  Making them from scratch with baking mixes is a super fun alternative to the store bought ones. Most of time we use Secret Kiwi Kitchen Triple Fudge Brownie Mix to make brookies--  brownie cookies and then fill them with cream frosting. But yesterday, on they fly-- we were invited to an impromptu barbeque and needed to come up with a fun dessert fast. So voilà,...