Recipes & Tips — sweet decorating

Secret Kiwi Kitchen Recipe for Peanut Butter icing

Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Easy and Wickedly Delicious Peanut Butter 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...

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Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Easy Chocolate Cake Christmas Trifle

Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Easy Chocolate Cake Christmas Trifle

Christmas just got EASY. Secret Kiwi Kitchen's dark chocolate cake mix makes the most amazing trifle in super fast time. Simply make the cake as directed in 2, 8 " cake tins. And let them cool completely.  While they're cooling, whip your cream! We like to add some icing sugar and a splash of vanilla to ours.  When the cake is cool, turn out and cut into squares, maybe 10cm. Arrange on the bottom of your trifle dish. Now let your imagination run wild. All you need to do is layer whatever you want to be in your trifle up with...

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Secret Kiwi Kitchen’s Lemon Marshmallow Fluff Pie

Secret Kiwi Kitchen’s Lemon Marshmallow Fluff Pie

This soft, fluffy delicious pie will be your new favourite - trust us! H​omemade lemon filling, buttery crust, dreamy marshmallow fluff topping– this is the lemon pie of your dreams! Everything you’ve ever wanted in a sweet, creamy, summertime pie. It tastes like sunshine and marshmallow clouds. Best of all it’s quick and super easy to make. Serves 6-8, 10 minute prep time. Ingredients: ●  5 egg yolks, beaten ●  1 (395 gram) can sweetened condensed milk ●  1⁄2 cup lemon juice approx. 6 lemons ●  1 (9 inch) prepared pie crust. We use sweet short pastry sheets pressed into either...

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Secret Kiwi Kitchen Halloween Fluffernutters by Laura Young

Halloween Fluffernutters!

Do you know what a Fluffernutter is? It's crazy cult American treat that is essentially a peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwich. It's a super fun irresistible combo that is delicious to eat simply spread on bread or you can go crazy and add all kinds of extra ingredients like bananas or special artistic touches.  One of our favourite food bloggers Laura Young had never heard of Marshmallow Fluff and was intrigued by the idea of experimenting with it, so we sent her a jar of Secret Kiwi Kitchen's Marshmallow Fluff. Laura is not only a talented chef but she is also...

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