Growing up using my mom's amazing stand mixer to make brownies and cookies destroyed my ability to cope with an underpowered hand mixer. My hand mixer has been on the verge of dying a miserable death for the past few months, and it has been driving me insane. One time, while I was making whipped cream, it overheated. It was WHIPPED CREAM! I had to wait 15 minutes for it to cool before it could finish its job. It has been sending me up the wall so for the last few months I've been dreaming of owning my own Kitchenaid stand mixer. I spent hours browsing the Williams Sonoma website for stand mixer options and read about them everywhere. Yesterday, I finally got the guts to tell Tim I wanted to spend 300 dollars on a stand mixer. I don't know why I had a hard time bringing it up, but it turned out not to be a big deal at all. I thought he would think I was especially silly, but in reality he realizes that I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, and that having a stand mixer means more cookies and goodies for him. It also means one less chore for him - I often make him mix cookie dough with the hand mixer when I don't want to! I also really wanted a stand mixer because they come with dough hooks for kneading bread. I've been making a lot more calzones and pizza lately for Tim, so it would be nice to not have to knead the dough all the time. It also makes a huge mess when you have to flour your countertop and knead dough all over it. I hated cleaning up the dried dough remants. It's one thing to clean up a mess of flour, but it is quite another situation when half the flour is stuck to your counter and refuses to come off. We purchased this model in the nickel pearl color, and I went on a cooking spree!
The mixer's first job was to mix up a batch of waffle batter so we could have waffles for breakfast. That was enjoyable, and it was funny to see how fascinated Tim was with the stand mixer. Then, I put the mixer to work again with the whisk attachment when I needed to make a whipped cream topping for my black bottom banana cream pie! The pie came out well. It tastes really good, but you don't get as much as the banana and cream flavor as I hoped. I would put in twice as much pasty cream and bananas next time. It is very hard to get out of the pie dish, so if you make it, butter and flour it generously. I like the peanut butter banana cream pie recipe that I made last time better, but if you're in the mood for chocolate, this one is great. If you are trying to pick between the two, definitely make the peanut butter banana cream pie - it is absolutely fabulous! We wandered around with the dog outside for a while, but when we came home, I put the mixer to work with the dough spiral to knead the pizza dough for dinner! We are going to make pizza with fresh mozzarella and basil on top. Yum. After putting the mixer to kneading the dough, we went to the albany bulb with Jon to go mountain biking around with the dog. When we got home, I put the mixer to work again! We made chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. When our pizza came out of the oven, the dough was a much nicer consistency and tasted better than it ever had before! I am very, very pleased with the mixer and am so excited that I bought it. If you look at the reviews on the amazon link of the mixer, you will probably notice that a lot of the people comment that they waited a long time to buy the mixer, and now that they finally bought it they wonder why they didn't purchase it earlier. That is what put me over the edge - if I'm going to have one at some point in my life, why not right now? Yay! If I had chocolate chips, I would be making more cookies right now, but I will save that for tomorrow!
The mixer's first job was to mix up a batch of waffle batter so we could have waffles for breakfast. That was enjoyable, and it was funny to see how fascinated Tim was with the stand mixer. Then, I put the mixer to work again with the whisk attachment when I needed to make a whipped cream topping for my black bottom banana cream pie! The pie came out well. It tastes really good, but you don't get as much as the banana and cream flavor as I hoped. I would put in twice as much pasty cream and bananas next time. It is very hard to get out of the pie dish, so if you make it, butter and flour it generously. I like the peanut butter banana cream pie recipe that I made last time better, but if you're in the mood for chocolate, this one is great. If you are trying to pick between the two, definitely make the peanut butter banana cream pie - it is absolutely fabulous! We wandered around with the dog outside for a while, but when we came home, I put the mixer to work with the dough spiral to knead the pizza dough for dinner! We are going to make pizza with fresh mozzarella and basil on top. Yum. After putting the mixer to kneading the dough, we went to the albany bulb with Jon to go mountain biking around with the dog. When we got home, I put the mixer to work again! We made chocolate cookies with peanut butter chips. When our pizza came out of the oven, the dough was a much nicer consistency and tasted better than it ever had before! I am very, very pleased with the mixer and am so excited that I bought it. If you look at the reviews on the amazon link of the mixer, you will probably notice that a lot of the people comment that they waited a long time to buy the mixer, and now that they finally bought it they wonder why they didn't purchase it earlier. That is what put me over the edge - if I'm going to have one at some point in my life, why not right now? Yay! If I had chocolate chips, I would be making more cookies right now, but I will save that for tomorrow!
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