Sorry guys I'm just soooooo excited tell me....

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...... I'm not going to regret just spending out on a colbolt blue kitchen aid!!!!

I'm like a child awaiting a Christmas present I can't wait

I will like it won't I???

Can I have recipe if they any good? :)

Will do. Just waiting for the girls to go to sleep, Dh to come home and the 40,000 other things I've got to do tonight and then I can make my cream cheese topping and ice them. I'm crap at icing so this should be great fun :o

GWen, yes you certainly can use that method! When I got mine, I was terrified about adding some dry ingredients and some wet, then a bit more dry and a bit more wet (or whatever the KA instructions say). In the end I just used all my usual methods and they've been absolutely fine.

Btw, KA icing is incredible. Yum!

I always put a tea towel over the KA at the very start to stop flour/icing sugar ly everywhere. Start on a low speed.

Ly meant to flying oops!

Phew, I was adding tiddly bits every 5 minutes terrified of breaking the thing. I usually weigh everything straight in the bowl and turn on the mixer so I shall resume my normal approach tomorrow :)

Haven't made the 'frosting' yet, DH won't clear out of the kitchen.

And I've called it Stevie (Candy Apple > Apple > Steve (Jobs) --> except I thought it was a girl so it's Stevie :))

Oh. My. God.

Apart from my red velvet cakes being, well....brown velvet cakes (entirely user error. I underestimated the amount of red colouring needed. They looked lovely and red on the outside :(), they are absolutely awesome. Light, melty, soft...aaaahhhhhhh

:o

Don't the KAs have a splash guard you can puton to avoid flying ingredients?

Have you seen how far icing sugar can travel when the DC put the KA on warp speed? My DD knows the to always put a tea towel over the KA as she quite often 'accidentally' turns the KA on too high.

I had the cover on and was mixing at a very sedate pace but I still has to dust it down afterwards!

Any good baking happening today? I'm doing vanilla biscuits and a banana cake this evening.

Have I totally taken over this thread?

nothing here, as DD is having a demanding day, but DS helped me make a choc chip yoghurt sponge yesterday, which should see us through the end of the week!

what are your vanilla biscuits? I must find some good sugar cookie recipes for DS's birthday party.

Currently have dough kneading for naans later - the ones in the shop were stupidly expensive so I decided to try and make them. Am intending to bake them on a pizza stone, which is a tip I read somewhere. I do love the dough hook as I could never be arsed to knead for long enough by hand and ended up with some decidedly leaden stuff.

Red velvet cupcakes this evening :) and cream scheese frosting!!!!

Choc chip yoghurt sponge? I NEED that in my life!

trazzle it's one of my more made up cakes. I tend to do a vic sponge mix (weigh however many intact eggs I can find, then same butter/sugar/sr flour), add vanilla paste) and bung in other stuff from the fridge or cupboard.

in this case, most of a tub of vanilla yoghurt, some cocoa powder, and a bag od choc chips. 3 egg mix, in a square tin, maybe 8 inch sq.

all a bit haphazard!!

oh, and next time will use plain yog, as this one is a bit too sweet. although creme fraiche has been the best addition yet.

Well my banana cake is still stodgy, despite a good thorough mixing. So I'll have to accept I'm shite at banana cakes.

Not sure I can be arsed to make the biscuits now. I wish everyone would sod off and leave me alone so I can spend an entire day playing with it.

Use Mary Berrys recipe for the best banana cake in the world. She uses two loaf tins although as an 'expert' I use one 23cm round tin and it's so yummy!!

or this banana cake - even more amazing with a tablespoon of mincemeat rather than the sultanas.