Recipes & Tips — chocolate Cake

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...

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,...

Ahhh, how we adore long languid summer days and that bit between Christmas and the end of the holidays, where no one knows what day it is, what time it is...and no one really cares! Most people are enjoying their holidays, this gorgeous weather...and eating. But we want it to be easy right? And we still want it to taste amazing. Here at Secret Kiwi Kitchen we were wondering how we could help you enjoy your baking fix, even if you didn’t have an oven. Maybe you’re camping, maybe you’re on a boat. Could be you only have a campfire, a gas ring...or...