Yet more great Millionaires caramel recipes & ideas from Kiwicakes

Millionaires caramel makes a great topping for no bake slices. Simply heat to 50 degrees Celsius and spread spread over your no bake slice, press in slated poprcorn. Top with chocolate if desired.

Millionaires caramel can be used to coat and stack profiteroles. Simply heat to 50 degrees celsius, dip to coat. Spread a little on your cake board and press down first profiterole. Repeat creating a pyramid shape.

Millionaires caramel is great for mini banoffe pies. Paint melted chocolate on your mini tart cases, place three slices of banana in base. Cover the base and bananas with melted millionaires caramel. Place three slices of banana on top when ready to serve along with a dollop of whipped cream.

Millionaires caramel can be used to create fruit upside down cakes. Simply place your millionaires caramel in the base of your tin, with the fruit from your usual recipe and cover with cake batter. Bake per your recipes instructions. Once tipped out a wonderful toffee fruit base is created.

Quick and easy millionaires caramel truffles are so tasty and quick to prepare. The millionaires caramel has a fudge like consistency prior to heating making it perfect for these yummy truffles. Chill your caramel, then roll in to a sausage shape, cutting it in to even cherry sized pieces. Roll these in to a ball and dip in melted chocolate. Cool. A gift any one would love to receive. These are also lovely with some sea salt flakes sprinkled on top before the chocolate sets.

Millionaires caramel ideas - yet more neat ways to use it

Here's another great range of ideas how our Caramel tasters group found ways to use the Kiwicakes Millionaires Caramel (8.95per 500g pot) . Above this super cute cake From Bridget A last minute cake order called for me to use caramel 2-ways.

4-layers of dark chocolate mud cake filled with caramel spread directly onto each layer and also used in the salted caramel buttercream filling.
Covered in vanilla buttercream, topped with marshmallows, all dusted with lustre dust to give a antique gold effect and finished with KiwiCakes twinkle little star sprinkle medley

From Paula Chocolate and Caramel mud cake with Caramel and ganache layers

This one had my taste buds salivating. Bridget told me "I used up the last of my KiwiCakes Caramel sample in a caramel cheesecake topped brownie. 

I used a raspberry cheesecake brownie recipe and swapped out the frozen raspberries for dollops of caramel."

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/raspberry-cheesecake-brownies/bc32f052-e59d-4186-bd2b-dc97a7244b9b

Filling a cupcake, I added some sea salt flakes and warmed it in a piping bag in the microwave on short bursts. Pushed tip in to cupcake and gave a quick squeeze.

From Bridget Crispy Salted Caramel Nuts in less than 5 minutes. Perfect Christmas gift. Toast some nuts in the frypan, heated the caramel until it bubbled, added the nuts, sprinkled with sea salt flakes, spread out to cool.

From Megan - Banana chocolate chip cupcakes with yummo caramel in the middle. I added a bit of salt to the caramel too. nuts, sprinkled with sea salt flakes, spread out to cool.

From Bridget - Last minute dessert for when you have unexpected guests

Mini Caramel Tartlets, 

Ready made tart cases, Kiwicakes caramel,melted chocolate.

Your guests will think you spent hours making dessert

More great Millionaires caramel ideas from Kiwicakes

Yesterday I promised you more great recipe ideas for our MillionairesCaramel from our group of caramel tasters. I've still more great ideas to share with you over the coming weeks. This caramel is so versatile, above Paula made these yummy butterscotch pancakes she told me "I made my normal fluffy pancake mixture and then added the a couple of table spoons of the caramel and blended in with my braun stick. The pancakes were light and fluffy with great subtle caramel flavour. We had them with just butter and then gourmet with hot caramel, cream and salted caramel sprinkles. Everything was gone before you could blink."

Banoffee crepes were made by Maria - she warmed a bit of Caramel and stirred in some whipped cream, then layered up with bananas and whipped cream

Grandma Kiwicakes warmed her caramel to create a sauce for dipping fresh cherries

Catherine used caramel to spread a layer on her eclairs.

Gwen made hollow chocolate snowmen and filled them with caramel.

Maria made a ginger pavlova with caramel sauce

Yummy new caramel available from Kiwicakescar

This week, I've added an awesome new Millionaires Caramel, it's spoon bendingly good (I should know, I had to pack it all in to tubs)

Before Christmas last year, I put out a call online for some caramel tasters, to join me in trialling it ( I really don't like to sell things that aren't great) We had an almost unanimous group of caramel tasters who loved its taste. And for the last two months, they've been testing and brainstorming ideas for it's use. And over the next few weeks, I'll begin to share some of those ideas with you. Today I've got a great idea from one of our tasters Paula. Apparently this slice was not only a hit with her family, it vanished at school camp too 

Paula tells me "I just lined the base of a slice tin with Salada normal crackers (broke them into the smaller squares) heated the caramel till just bubbling and poured over the crackers. Then I sprinkled chocolate chips over and smooothed with a palette knife (the heat of the caramel melted the chocolate chips) then the top was sprinkled Kiwicakes Christmas Sprinkle Medley). Place in the fridge to set for 10 mins then sliced with a hot knife. Follow the link to buy http://www.kiwicakes.co.nz/kiwi/edible-ingredients-and-flavourings-caramel-millionaires-caramel-500g-p-15983.html

It was also a hit for the more traditional caramel slice  as trialled by Cushla & Melissa

A lot of our trial tasters enjoyed it straight from the tub.

With one taster declaring "Can be consumed way too easily straight from the container! Now to hide it from the husband"

Now I'll have to admit, I enjoyed it's fudge like consistency straight from the tub too. But I was rather taken with this simple snacking idea from Paula.

It is intended that you heat the caramel before use, this is when it loses it's grainy texture, you can add flaked sea salt at this time, for salted caramel. From here you can make a dessert sauce as Natalie did (add cream while heating if you like)

This is just a handful of ideas, with many more to come. If you purchase some of our Millionaires caramel, we'd love it if you send us a photo of how you use yours.

With the release of our Old Master wafer paper prints, I couldn't wait to marry them up with our picture frames mould. The moulds are made with yellow fondant, to which I added a little tylose to harden. The wafer paper pictures are attached with edible glue and painted with Rainbow Dust edible metallic paint light gold & dark gold. (I did 2 coats)

New My Little Cupcake Pop mould

Kiwicake's is proud to be New Zealand's first stockist for the My Little Cupcake Pop mould 

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Just in time for Christmas priced at $12.95 This mould is attractively packaged, it would make a super cute gift of it's own.

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 It's for birthdays too!

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Is anyone making shortbread for Christmas?

This year Christmas day celebrations will be held at our house, as the family comes to us. Which means I will be making shortbread. For anyone that remembers this post it will be that recipe I follow, and I will be sure to use Grandad's shortbread mould for at least one batch, but this year I'm pretty thrilled with my selection of Shortbread moulds, all new at Kiwicakes for 2012 - I might have to give another shape a try. Deciding which will be the hard part. Maybe I'd better let the kids choose. 

Our range of moulds are used to shape the dough, you wouldn't normally bake in them, but if you prefer to, they are oven safe.

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I'm in love with this new shoe cutter set

Just landed today and I'm in love, with this new shoe cutter set.

Includes Sole Former, Heel Former & Shoe Cutter. The kit comes with 16 stage by stage pictures/instructions, along with shoe sole cutter and a former to allow your sole to dry in a glamourous shoe shape!

The heel mould is made of high quality silicone and features locking buttons, to ensure your 2 halfs of the heel match well. The plastic former allows you to get the perfect shape when drying the sole.Templates are included for the different shoe styles which makes the BEST SHOE on the market!

THE SIZE OF THE FINISHED SHOE IS APPRX 12CM LONG AND 5CM HIGH

The tastiest peppermint brownies I have ever tasted

Ever since I saw this post on peppermint brownies from Lady Katherines' Tea parlor, I have wanted to make them. One thing stood in my way, finding the peppermints here in NZ. However an email to my American foodstuffs supplier some months back, resulted in a a lovely big bag (7 1/2lb to be exact 636 peppermints) arriving this week.

After reading the full post several times, I was slightly daunted by what COULD happen. However I equipped myself with my Mario Batali pizza cutter for cutting the finished peppermint. Honestly if you hate your pizza cutter, or are in the market for a new one, you simply cannot go past this one. I love mine so much, I have even bought it as a gift for others (no I don't sell them).

I used the same spacing for my peppermints as Lady Katherine

After 6 minutes of baking as suggested, mine looked more like her finished product, but the candies had not yet formed one solid sheet. She indicated her oven was old and I might need to bake longer, which I did. My finished product was had more swirl to the red than hers, but I was still happy with the finished product.

I quickly scored the peppermint several times, I would say it took 3 swipes of the pizza cutter over the same line, before the candy did not properly melt back together. I just eyeballed it, I didn't plan what size to cut the pieces to - as this was simply a trial run.

I applied the peppermint to the top of a baked pan of brownie. In this case, I had decided to use a silicone bake tray, so I could pop the finished brownie from the pan before cutting but it wasn't really a problem. A metal pan would have been fine. I used a layer of chocolate buttercream to adhere the peppermint to the brownie.

The finished brownie was a taste sensation. Biting through the fine layer of peppermint gave a satisfying crack, through to the unctuous fudgy brownie below. This is definitely a new favourite. Grandma Kiwicakes tells me it is her "new favourite latest find".

If you'd like to make this peppermint brownie for yourself - be one of the first to whisper "peppermint" in the comment section of the Kiwicakes website, when placing an order and I'll be sure to send you enough peppermints, to recreate this treat. I only have just over 550 peppermints left, so you'll have to be quick, first come first served.

I love receiving customer photos

I especially like receiving them late on a friday afternoon - it really makes my day. I just received this stunning photo of an orange cake, made in the Nordicware banana bread or "monkey" bread pan my lovely customer Elise kindly agreed I could show it to you all. I think she did a great job. It was made for her sons birthday. It is yet to receive it's orange drizzle icing, which is currently being mixed up. I adore Elise's suggestion of Grand Marnier syrup for an adult version.