Recipes & Tips — icing

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...

Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Chocolate Cake Mix produces an epic tasting dessert as is. However, if you'd like to "next level" it with some unbelievable buttercream, this is the recipe for you. This buttercream is light and fluffy, almost like a mousse. It really is the most delicious icing we have ever tried. The secret is not in the ingredients- although good quality butter, cocoa and vanilla will elevate the taste. The secret my friends...is the whipping! Yup, the more you whip it, the yummier it becomes. So, put the butter in your bowl and whip for at least 3 minutes at high speed. Hopefully...

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...