Kitchenaid mixer - so now I have it (!) can you recommend your best baking books please

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DH is very excited about the baking side of things (that I will be making) so any recommendations for good books would be great.

I have to start proving it was a good buy pretty quickly.

Leith's baking bible is very comprehensive - a good and cheap buy is the Australian Woman's Weekly baking book. Nigella's Domestic Goddess is actually very good. Will think of more - they're all downstairs...

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What colour is it?

More than Anna!

I was looking at them yesterday afternoon - a lovely pale pink one or the charcoal one

Oh, it's all about the style with you KitchenAid people, isn't it? Bah.

Congratulations on the new addition to your family

I like Leiths Baking Bible, Mary Berrys ultimate Cake Book, Nigella's How to be a Domestic Goddess and I have Cookies Galore and Muffins Galore which are also good.

The Delia collection Baking book has some nice recipes in but haven't got around to baking any yet.

I'd maybe try this one
I don't have it but I love Dan Lepard's weekly recipe column in the Saturday Guardian and this book is on my christmas list. His recipes always look gorgeous and the ones I've tried have turned out well.

for bread, his Baking with Passion book also looks v. good...

It's dark grey - that colour was £100 off (plus a further tenner off in their Christmas magazine) from Steamer Trading. Cheaper than anywhere else - £249.

I'd always fancied red or the yellow but grey is classy and makes it look more like equipment that a kitchen top bit of art . Plus my Aga has to be red... (in my dreams).

Thanks for the recommendations. I'm getting all excited.

I want a red one so much it hurts. And the red ones are always to most expensive!

But I do have an Aga!

Seeker - this is mine and DH's presents to each other plus (we hope) our present from the in-laws too.

After 18 long years we've given up on surprises!

I have a red one

Whipped up my Xmas cake in it this morning.

I [heart] my KitchenAid...

I'm torn. I love the aesthetics of Kitchenaid's design but I am very anti gadget. You actually can't beat a bowl and a wooden spoon. I have a set of blue and buttermilk striped Cornish Ware bowls and a collection of very well-loved and well-worn collection of wooden spoons. I'm the same about breadmakers.

I have a cream 4 oven mains gas Aga.

Oh, yes, I like Dan Lepard's column too - may drop hints for the book.

I have the Classic and just lurve it. I use mine all the time.

I would 2nd Nigella's domestic goddess, it is the ulitimate baking book.

I've got a red one, which my 2 of my lovely, lovely friends bought for us when dh and I got married.

I use it all the time for cakes and pastry, because it is so unfaffy, and it is great when making bread (no kneading - bliss)

My favourits baking book is Nigella's Domestic Goddess, but could do with some inspiration too!

I have a black two oven Eastwood Aga-type oil fired range. And two lovely brown with cream insides mixing bowls that were my mother's and which I learned to bake with when I was a child. And a collection of wooden spoons. But I still want a red Kitchenaid!

Does anyone know if you can make pastry in the Kitchenaid?

I have a red one too, it is my favourite thing in the kitchen.

Also love Nigella and a bit of Delia.

Need to use mine more often - 70% of the time I just admire it and shine it!

AbbaFan - you can make it in the Kenwood (with the K-beater - don't know what the KA equiv is) - you have to be careful not to overmix, that's all.

Ooh - just remembered - in Tesco last week they had a deal where you bought 3 bars of Green & Black's chocolate and got the cookbook free. I already have it, so was a bit gutted. that's very good for chocolate cakes, etc.

Deborah Gray's complete book of baking is quite good too. Apple cake in particular is lovely.