Showing posts with label kitchenaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kitchenaid. Show all posts

Friday, November 20, 2015

The Kitchenaid Artisan Makes Cooking a Joy!

KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer
Photo: BenFrantzDale

The Most Versatile Small Kitchen Appliance


To find the most versatile small kitchen appliance, you don't have to look beyond the KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer.

Regardless what your kitchen colors are, you will probably find the perfect color, since Artisan stand mixers come in more than twenty colors. My mixer looks like the one in the photo. I love it.

Some come with glass bowls, others with stainless steel bowls. With special attachments you purchase separately, you can use the stand mixers as a grinder, sausage maker, juider, ice cream maker, and much more!

In tough economic times like these, more and more families, including mine, are having to go back to home-cooked meals, instead of eating out.

For every job, whether it be on-the-job, or at home, having the right tool makes doing the work easier and faster.

Can you mix a cake or a batch of cookies by hand? Of course! But it is much more pleasurable to bake a cake or a batch of cookies if you have a tool like the Artisan mixer to do the heavy work for you. And it's faster, too!

Did You Know?
Artisan stand mixers come 
in a large variety of colors!

What Comes with the Artisan Mixer with Pouring Sheild?


Optional KitchenAid Pasta Kit
works on the Artisan Mixer, too!
Photo: Mack Male
When you purchase an Artisan Stand Mixer, you will find included in the box the whip, flat, and bread hook mixer beaters. The wire whip is used for whipping cream or meringue.

The flat beater is used for cake type batters, and the bread hook is for kneading bread after it is mixed using the flat beater.

It will also come with a splatter shield, which prevents batter from splattering your kitchen walls.

The 4, 5, or 6 quart (depending on which mixer you purchase) steel bowl can be placed in the freezer for a while to make it easier to whip up some whipped cream or cream cheese filling.

It can also double as a baking pan to make the skirt of a doll cake. My daughter did this for my granddaughter's birthday cake.

After baking the cake in the mixing bowl, she turned it out top down, and inserted a doll in the center. She used a star tip to add frosting clothes to the doll and to decorate the cake skirt.

The cake was a hit!


Making Cookies in Three Minutes with KitchenAid 





KitchenAid Artisan Stand Mixer Features


Optional KitchenAid Meat Grinder Attachment

Photo: Jennifer
KitchenAid's Artisan stand mixer is a substantial piece of equipment: 325 watts of mixing power make child's play of creaming butter, kneading dough, and whipping cream.

 The kid in you will appreciate how quick and easy it is to mix up a batch of cookie dough.

The Artisan Stand Mixer comes with three attachments: a flat beater for making batter, meat loaf, and all textures in-between; a wire whip for egg whites, mayonnaise, and more air-infused creations; and a hook for mixing and kneading yeast doughs. All three are solidly constructed and easily secured to the beater shaft with a simple twist.


Giving someone a stand mixer is
like giving them an extra pair of
hands! It makes everything they
mix up easier to make!


This model also includes a pouring shield for guiding ingredients to their proper destination, and the bowl itself locks tight to the base.

Standing about 15 inches high, jutting out a foot, and weighing more than a grown woman's bowling ball, this stand mixer isn't the sort of appliance you'll wipe down and put away. Better to find a square foot of free counter space for easy access; besides, this machine is as pretty as it is rugged.


Optional Attachments Extend the Capabilities of the KitchenAid Stand Mixer




Saturday, September 26, 2015

Cookbooks and Bread Recipes for the Stand Mixer

Stand Mixer Recipes

 
While any recipe can be adapted to stand mixers, there are some recipes specifically developed for use with them. KitchenAid, for instance, has several cookbooks. Some of the best are out of publication, but on Amazon, you can often find them used.

I have several favorites, including KitchenAid Best-Loved Recipes, the Ultimate Mixer Cookbook, and KitchenAid 3 Cookbooks in 1, that are no longer in print, but the have some really good recipes in them.
 
What I really like about stand mixer cookbooks is that they tell what specific speed to use in mixing, which mixer blade to use (i.e. wire, bread hook, or flat blade), and how long to mix at that speed. KitchenAid mixers use a different mixing movement than most mixers, so it usually doesn't take as long to mix a recipe as a regular mixer.
 
The bread hook blade, obviously, is used for mixing and kneading bread. The first time I used the bread hook blade to mix my favorite yeast bread recipe, I was thrilled. I had gotten away from baking bread often, since my hands are painful enough that I can't always knead the dough. The mixer does it for me, now. Below, I am including a list of links to some of the best bread recipes I have found online.

Bread Recipes for Stand Mixer Bread


Do you enjoy making bread in your stand mixer?

    Friday, September 25, 2015

    Stand Mixers Make it Fun to Bake Cookies: Snickerdoodle Cookie Recipe

    snickerdoodle cookie recipe
    Photo: Alcione

    Stand Mixers Make it Fun to Bake Cookies!

     
    A few years ago, my sister-in-law mentioned that she burned up her mixer before Christmas making divinity. A good friend who baked and decorated cakes for the public had the same thing happen to her mixer a few years back while she was making icing.

    In my case, it was cookie dough that caused the demise of my hand mixer. My husband surprised me with a KitchenAid Artisan stand mixer to replace the one I burned up. Wow, what a difference. I've used the stand mixer since 2008, and absolutely love the ease in preparing cookie dough and other stiff dough.

    Over a recent holiday season, my daughter-in-law and I made dozens of cookie recipes, several bread recipes, and a couple of pies using the mixer.

    KitchenAid 5 Qt.
    Artisan Stand Mixer

    The stand mixer made it possible to continue other food preparation tasks while waiting for the dough to mix. It really is helpful for someone with painful hands and shoulders not to have to mix and stir heavy cookie batters and bread dough. It really does make cooking and baking a joy, again.

    A quality stand mixer will out perform and outlast hand mixers. They are heavier and are able to handle heavier batters and dough.

    One of the recipes that we used so much over the holidays was the Snickerdoodle Cookies Recipe. Our family loves them so much we are asked to bake them quite often, even when the holiday season has passed. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do.
     
     
    A stand mixer makes it possible to
    continue other food preparation tasks
    while waiting for the dough to mix.
     

    Snickerdoodles Cookie Recipe 

    A Great Recipe for Any Occasion!

     
    • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
    • 1 tsp baking soda
    • 1 1/2 cups sugar
    • 1 tsp Watkins double-strength vanilla
    • 1 tbsp Watkins cinnamon, more if desired
    • 2 tsp cream of tartar
    • 1/4 tsp salt
    • 1/2 cup shortening
    • 1/2 cup butter, softened
    • 2 eggs
    • 1/4 cup white sugar
    Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Mix flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. In the stand mixer bowl, beat 1 1/2 cups sugar, butter, shortening and eggs until well-blended and smooth. Turn mixer to low speed and mix in flour mixture.

    Refrigerate dough, if needed, until firm enough to shape. Shape level tablespoons of dough into 1 1/2" balls. Mix cinnamon and 1/4 cup sugar in small bowl. Roll balls in cinnamon mixture. Place 2" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until lightly browned and tops are crinkled. Remove to wire rack to cook. Makes 48 cookies.
     
     

    Making Snickerdoodles Makes Memories—Betty Makes Snickerdoodles with Her Grandson Carter

     
     
     
     
    What is your favorite cookie recipe?