Recipes & Tips — cake decorating

Spiced Red Wine Cast Iron Skillet Cake with Poached Pears

Spiced Red Wine Cast Iron Skillet Cake with Poached Pears

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...

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Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Cake Mix Oreo Bars-- Your New Dessert Obsession!

Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Cake Mix Oreo Bars-- Your New Dessert Obsession!

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,...

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Cake Trimming 101: The Cake's Out Of The Oven! Now What?

Cake Trimming 101: The Cake's Out Of The Oven! Now What?

When your cake comes out of the oven, it's common to be slightly domed in the middle--the mark of a 'home-baked' cake! But if you want to take things to the next level, decorate, or ice your cake like a pro, it's easy to level playing field (so to speak)! All you need to do is trim your cake. Don’t be scared by the extra step, it’s easy peasy! When your cake is cooled, carefully remove it from the baking tin. Get level with your cake so that you can see straight across the top. Then, carefully take a serrated knife and...

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