Recipes & Tips — cake decorating

    Our good friends over at The Iron Clad Pan Co have put together an incredible recipe for Chocolate Baked Alaska using Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Triple Fudge Brownie Mix! If you are looking for a super exciting dessert and decadent dessert that will amaze friends and family this is the recipe for you!  Quadruple Chocolate Baked Bomb Alaska Flambé  Serves 4 - 6 Here’s a super fun and dramatic way to show your love this Valentine's Day. Triple Chocolate Brownie and creamy White Chocolate Pomegranate Macadamia ice cream wrapped up in a billowy meringue, then set on fire to create a caramelised flavour that no blow...

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...

Why are upside down cakes so mesmerising? At SKK, we are absolutely besotted with them! They add a magical touch to the simplest of cakes. Perhaps, because it reminds us of 'grandma' and elicits feelings of nostalgia for simpler and purer times. As far as upside down goes, you can't beat this delicious banana cake. Full of vintage glamour, it combine two of grandma's favourite things: upside-down cake and a trusty cast-iron skillet*. Caramel, chocolate and banana with a hint of cardamon and allspice: what's not to love! Some combo's are timeless!  Ingredients: Topping 150g (¾ cup, softly packed) brown sugar 75g butter, diced 5 small bananas, peeled and cut...