#1 top rated silicone baking mats from Kitzini
One thing that Americans do well is chocolate chips. They’ve got all sorts of them in different flavours and sizes. Here in the UK, well, in Shetland at least (unless I’m willing to shop online) all I can get is one measly 100 gram top supermarket brand (not naming names here!) bag of chocolate chips with barely a hint of any cocoa solids in it. What’s the point?!
To remedy, I’ve taken to using Fair trade 85% cocoa solids chocolate bars, chopped up, to make my fail safe chocolate chip cookie recipe. They melt a little bit more than conventional chocolate chips would, but at least you get a proper hit of chocolatey chocolate in each bite.
I’ve been using a silicone baking mat now instead of baking paper for my cookie recipes for the last few years. It’s been well used (I like cookies!) and was in desperate need of replacing, so imagine my delight when Kitzini contacted me asking if I’d like to put their new silicone baking mat to the test!
Another thing Americans do well is the whole silicone bakeware thing. Kitzini silicone baking mats have been selling like hotcakes in the US market, and they’re now starting to branch out into the UK.
Kitzini are a relatively new, small family business aiming to bring innovative, stylish kitchen gadgets to the market, including their new silicone baking mats. These baking tray reusable liners are the fantastic new must-have for the kitchen… and for good reason:
- They are made from high quality fibre glass coated with 100% Certified FDA/LFGB food-safe silicone for consistent heat conduction.
- They are heat resistant from freezing to to 248°C
- The silicone coating creates an instant non-stick surface that is very easy to clean.
- They can be used in the oven, microwave or even as a pastry mat.
- They’re stylish! A woven hessian type weave with a bold coloured border makes for an attractive product.
- They’re easy to store – roll up or lay flat in a drawer.
- There is no need for baking sprays, butter or oil, thereby keeping the calorie content down on the finished dish.
Now, what did I think of my Kitzini baking mat samples?
First up I tested them out on my tried and tested Camp Aitebreagh Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe. Usually, to make these cookies, I either have to liberally butter a baking tray or use a new sheet of baking paper per batch (too much melted chocolate stuck to the paper means it can’t be reused for each batch).
My old baking mat (a poor quality freebie off the front of a supermarket baking magazine!) had a lot of resistance to it, meaning my cookies didn’t spread as much as they normally would have. The perfectly smooth Kitzini baking mats allowed the cookies to spread just how they are supposed to resulting in gorgeous, perfectly textured cookies each time. Their large size meant I could get a full dozen cookies on each sheet without worrying about them touching.
A quick wipe down of the melted chocolate between batches meant I churned out four dozen of my favourite cookies in no time.
Secondly, I used my baking mat to make some bread machine garlic and rosemary focaccia. The dough gripped perfectly to the mat, meaning I didn’t have to faff about trying to get the dough to stay where I wanted it to while rolling (saving time!) and the mat was easily transferred, bread dough and all, to the waiting baking tray.
The bread baked perfectly, and there was no problems sliding the baked bread onto a wire rack to cool (there’s nothing worse than having bread stick to baking paper, is there!). I’ll be using this baking mat for our pizzas too – it really does make rolling out the dough so much easier!
Lastly, these experimental Alpen muesli bars with pumpkin and sunflower seeds that I made for a weekend treat worked perfectly on my new Kitzini baking mat! The bars themselves were baked in a separate 9 inch silicone baking pan, cooled and then cut into bars before being dipped in melted dark chocolate and left to harden on the Kitzini baking mat. White chocolate and goji berries were then sprinkled on top. A little bit too moreish, I tell you – and a recipe will follow shortly!
THE VERDICT:Â I love this product! It looks fab and does exactly what you want it to.
Kitzini sell exclusively through Amazon in both the US and UK, and their baking mats have an RRP of £29.99 each. However, at the time of writing this post (30 March 2015) they are on sale for £10!
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shortbread
choc chip cookies – mmmm
Mini pizzas
rock cakes with plenty of sultanas in them!
Triple choc cookies
Cookies 🙂
Apricot scones
brownies
chocolate cookies
Anzac biscuits!
I’d make home made pizzas with my children
Chocolate cookies with my niece
Some cookies with my daughter 🙂
Mascarpone scones 🙂
Cookies
Chocolate brownies
Peanut butter cookies
I want to make Rockie road, So I would make them first 🙂
Chocolate Cookies
Gingerbread men for my son to decorate and eat.
cookies ….. always cookies!!
I’d cook foccachia (which I don’t know how to spell!).
I’d bake some carrot cookies
Pizza
Macaroons
Sticky toffee chocolate brownies.
Chocolate Chip cookies – like my Granny used to make!
Nutella Cookies!
Cookies
cookies
COOKIES choc chip ones 🙂 xx
Choc chip cookies
I am really getting into baking so this would be great. I would probably first bake cookies for my kids. Also want to try making some Assam cookies – I dont know if there is a recipe but I am going to try
Peanut butter cookies
Biscuits! I am making a batch a week at the moment and a mat would be very handy.
Chocolate caramel brownies! 🙂
Chocolate and raspberry cookies
salted caramel cookies
Gingerbread cookies
Cheese and red onion scones
something for my dad
I would bake some biscuits! These look fab, I would definitely like to try them x
I would make flapjacks
flapjacks
Raspberry & White Chocolate Cookies
Cookies
Shortbread! How have I never come across one of these before?
Chocolate chip cookies which I’d make with my little boy.
Meringue!
Loved the garlic and rosemary focaccia so I think I would attempt that first
Melting moments
I would bake some healthy oat cookies
Some yummy cookies
Homemade oven chips
blueberry and chocolate muffins
Cinnamon cookies
Rocky Road <3 <3 x
chocolate chip cookies
Peanut butter cookies
Flapjacks
white chocolate cookies
I’d try the garlic and rosemary focaccia bread as shown above. Looks amazing. I’ll be making this soon regardless of winning the baking mat or not!
Hoping to win one for a little treat for the wife
biscuits
Apple pie
Maple syrup and bacon lollipops
Chocolate chip cookies, as they always stick on other trays
Defiantly chocolate chip cookies for my granddaughter jessie
American style choc chip cookies, with this hopefully I would get them in one piece and not broken lol
Slimming world chips!
Apple streudal
ginger and sultana scones <3
My daughter and I would make lemon drizzle cakes and many more treats :o)
Biscuits & cookies =D
Scones and chocolate biscuits 🙂
Cookies
chocolate cookies 🙂
Rock Buns
some chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate Brownies, my husband’s favourite! x
chocolate chip cookies!
Soft choc chip cookies
A yummy cake!
I would bake white chocolate and peanut cookies
cookies
I’d have to bake some chocolate cookies
muffins
Pizza.
Rocky Road Flapjacks
First thing would definitely the Nutella Brownies I have been meaning to make! I have never heard of silicone baking mats before, the idea is fab
chocolate chip cookies
Probably some chocolate chip cookies. 🙂
Triple chocolate cookies. Thank you!
Chocolate chip cookies
Meringues
chocolate brownies
Biscuits topped with chocolate 🙂
I would make bagels – the last batch I made stuck to the baking parchment and I spent ages trying to pick it off!
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I would bake some chocolate chip cookies. Yum!
scones to serve with homemade jam and cornish clotted cream
Cheese scones
Hazelnut and Choc Chip Coookies
I’ve been asked to make some more flapjacks by some of the volunteers at the National Trust property that I go to.
Choux Buns
Meringues – family favourite
I would probably make meringues or cookies.
chocolate brownies
Brandy Snaps 🙂
SCONES
i’ve seen this awesome rose thing on facebook which I want to try but I haven’t got the right bakeware.
Those cookies look amazing so they’ll be first on my to-bake list!
Coconut macaroons (as they always stick)
lardy cake
biscuits
chocolate chip cookies
Shortbread biscuits
Cookieeeees…nomnomnom….
Cookies for the grandkids
cookies 🙂
I’d be baking with my young nieces. My mum’s just been made their special guardian because their parents couldn’t care for them. My mum grows wonderful organic fruit and veg, so we’d probably be using this to make something fun with her organic garden produce, like maybe blueberry or plum cookies (or both!!). She also grows hazelnuts, so we can make choc n nut cookies for a little change, too!
The time before they moved to my mum was tough on them, and they’ve had eating problems as a result. So giving them fun activities that involve making their food really helps them to get over those issues and start having a healthy relationship with food before it becomes a major problem for them.
A mozzarella and tomato filo pastry pie
Cheese sticks
Chocolate brownie traybake
VICTORIA SPONGE
Granola cookies
I would make some salted caramel cookies!
Peanut butter cookies!
brandy snaps
chocolate chip cookies
foccacia
Chocolate chip cookies. x
Cookies for my children x
cookies
Focaccia. Yum!
Some gluten free cookies for my son.
White chocolate and cherry cookies!
I’d make some chocolate chip cookies
I’d make cookies
White chocolate and raspberry Cookies
I’d make some chocolate chip cookies =) mmm x
Florentines, my favourite
I’d make some chocolate cookies.
I’d like to have a go at making my own granola bars!
Some brownies out of a packet, safest bet with my results at baking
I’d make cookies!
I would have a go at making some choc chip cookies
Cheese Scones
Cookies – coconut and cherry ones to start with, everyones favourite
Fruit Scones a family favourite x
Cookies
Ginger Biscuits
Garlic Bread definately
Definitely cookies. Have been trying for ages and never seem to get the consistency right. Yours look amazing !
Sticky cinnamon buns
This post has inspired me to make focaccia, looks amazing even unbaked!
Choc cookies
Flapjacks
Choc chip cookies
Shortbread – that’s if I got there before my 2 girls who love cooking cookies!
Cheesey Scones
some blondies, yum!
mmmm chooclate brownies
Cookies!
I’d probably bake some biscuits
Rock Cakes
I’d find an easy cookie recipe to make with my daughter.
Meringues
Lovely chocolate cookies as you recommend.
meringues, never had any luck. The last time was in a rented house, a neigbour wacked up the heat and put a joint of beef in the cooker, it came on smoked and sweet, a definite invention!
Chocolate chip cookies
choc chip cookies
I would make some ginger cookies. Pregnant at the mo and can’t get enough of ginger!!! 🙂
Choc Chip cookies..yum
Chocolate peanut butter cookies
I’d love to make some Anzac cookies on them!
Gingernuts
Cookies with my daughter
Some white chocolate chip cookies
Oat and Raisin cookies from The Hummingbird Bakery cookbook – yum!
Choc fudge brownies
Some kind of biscuits
Biscotti
white chocolate chip cookies
the first thing I would make is chocolate chip cookies , never made them before and I really like cookies.
Ginger biscuits
Chocoolate fudge brownie cookies
Cookies we love cookies
Vegan snicker-doodle cookies
biscuits x
Cookies for me first
A scrummy meringue
I’d have to try and bake myself some gluten free treats – Since I got diagnosed last year I’ve not had a proper tasting pizza! The cookies could be for desert 🙂
I would attempt to make my own Foccaica Bread
Fab idea and comp 🙂 I would make my wife some vegan cookies.
some homemade mini pizzas, as we all like different toppings
Chocolate brownies as they seem to stick everytime for me
Cookies 🙂
Little meringus nests
some shortbread
cookies
Cookies
I would make flapjacks
Chocolate rock buns
Peanut Butter and White Chocolate cookies
a pizza with a home made topping
Chocolate chip cookies
I’d bake scones
Shortbread and cookies.
Some chocolate chip cookies with my children, thanks for the lovely giveaway.
cookies
Ginger biscuits
some shortbread and cookies
chocolate chip cookies
I would make cookies,I always split the mixture in two so I would make white choc chip and also some smartie ones x
It has to be the choc chip cookies you describe (yum !)
I’d bake some Ginger cookies xx
Still scared of biscuits… would definitely try this with the mat.
Chocolate and orange cookies
I would make white chocolate cookies
shortbread
I would make ginger biscuits.
Ginger nut biscuits from my Nans recipe for my Dad he loved them, so I’d love to try them using this new cookware! Ty for the chance x x
definately some cookies
Cookies
some ginger snaps
chocolate, cherry and coconut slice xx
Cookies
some yummy flapjacks
I would make some Brownies
Rock cakes
Chocolate cakes
Chocolate cookies
macarons
CArrot and oatmeal cookies
Chocolate Cookies
Flapjacks
Flapjacks
chocolate brownies
Some cookies as a treat 🙂
Flapjacks
Chocolate cookies.
Ginger and chocolate cookies 🙂
Some shortbread
Some gluten free cookies
Chocolate brownies
pizza
chocolate chip cookies
Sausage rolls x
Cauliflower crust pizza
Cookies!
Red Velvet Cookies
chocolate brownies
some oaty coookies 🙂
I would bake some Blueberry Muffins
Chocolate chip cookies 🙂
Shortbread biscuits
chocolate chip cookies
i love gooey choc cookies 😀
Maple and pecan cookies
Chocolate cookies!
A weekend treat of homemade pizza
some chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate cookies, yum yum!!
I would cook blueberry muffins
Lovel crusty Multi Grain Loavces
Great for meringues! I’d have to make a pavlova
Chocolate Brownies 🙂
Peanut Butter Cookies and sweet potatoes chips
Honeycomb! That’s always looked like fun to make 🙂
Meringue roses! Lots of them!!!
Ginger biscuits
would love to make some shortbread
ginger biscuits
I don’t know! Choc chip cookies I think.
I would bake bread rolls
try and make meringues
Hot cross buns
Cookies
My nieces birthday cake.
Almond Cookies
A meringue roulade. My meringue always sticks to baking parchment so I need to try a silicone mat. I can justify having one as I do so much baking.
Gingerbread
Brioche rolls.
choc chip cookies or brownies thankyou
I’ll be trying your garlic and rosemary focaccia.
These silicone mats look amazing! So non-stick. I’d use it to make some sort of pastry dish first, as they often stick for me!
chocolate chip cookies
Peanut butter cookies, using my homemade peanut butter
Oatmeal banana chocolate chunk cookies.
Scones
Chocolate chip cookies
Ginger shortbread
Chocolate chip cookie!
hot cross buns
I would make some Macaroons
Brownies
Chocolate Brownies
Would definitely love to try making macarons on these!
Brownies – The kids love them
Peanut butter cookies – they’re a favourite but parchment paper never makes the bottoms quite as crisp as they could be.
a delicious banana cake
Chocolate chip cookies
Your garlic and rosemary focaccia looks a good place to start.
Whoopie Pies
Easter biscuits
Brownies.
lemon drizzle bars
ginger nuts! mum loves them, lol x
It’s definitely got to be homemade veggie pizza, with fresh mint, walnuts, mushrooms, pineapple, peppers, sweetcorn and red onion. Perfect comfort food for a cosy evening with the better half in the dusky nights leading into summer x
Flapjacks
Low-carb Macaroons!
Biscuits
Chocolate Brownies!
really love this. I think I’d make some kind of cookie first
Chocolate chip biscuits
i’m trying to master scones at the mo its not going well
peanut butter cookies
Easter biscuits
Cookies! Lots of cookies!
Brownies
Chocolate chip cookies
Some biscuits
ooo think i would try out your foccacia
I would love to try and make cannoli
Flapjacks
cookies!!
Triple chocolate brownies mmmmmmm! x
some brandy snaps!
Cookies as they are a favourite here x
Chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate brownies! Yum yum 🙂
Yummy biscuits!
Chocolate chip cookies … my favourite
Chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate Brownies
peanut butter biscuits
I would make some Rock Cakes. They would be much easier to remove with a baking mat.
Has to be my favourite white chocolate cookies 🙂
Brownies x
scones
I’d make some dehydrate some fruit puree to make fruit roll ups. They’re so yummy but a pain to peel from baking paper!
Caramel egg brownies 🙂
Some biscotti
Brownies
I’d make homemade bounty bars – they’ve been on my ‘to make’ list for ages!
rock buns. a good old fashioned receipe
cookies but this time I will read the quantities more carefully – made so many last month that I was giving them away to everyone!
Thanks for your review, looks like a great product! Your focaccia recipe looks yummy, I’ll try it x
Glutenfree cookies – they normally stick to everything!
Brownies x
Brownies x
I would bake some biscoti biscuits
biscoti biscuits
cookies! as they always stick so never bake them! x
Cookies – with syrup.
Some yummy cookies
fudge cookies xx
Sausage rolls as they are always the ones that stick for me! 🙂
Chocolate brownies
I would bake some spicy coookies. Since they bake quickly and I’m always terribly excited to try out new baking things.
Lemon Cake! 🙂
Banana oatmeal cookies!
cookies and brownies
biscuits
I would bake florentines
Cookies and browies!
Coconut macaroons – love ’em
gingerbread man
chocolate chip cookies
Biscuits I find they often stick to greasproof paper so would be lovely to bake some & not stick!
I would bake some cookies and short bread biscuits!
Brandy snaps, got a real weakness for them!
I would bake scones or cookies first
Wow, never seen these before. Looks like they are a game changer. Great product for all the baking I should be doing.
I would make some double chocolate chips cookies 🙂
I want to make Lego brownies!
Macaroons – always fancied making these!
I’d bake flat breads of some kind – naan or pitta. Although I think I need TWO of these, so I can use one as a craft mat, because it looks so much better than the mats sold as craft mats
cookies and brownies!
What a great idea. I’ve never heard of a baking mat before but it looks so simply and easy to use – thanks for sharing.
These look really good! What a lovely giveaway 🙂 x