Recipes & Tips — cake trimming

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,...

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...