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Peter the Cat...

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Bee - the Cat Who Came From Somewhere Else...

Bee - the Cat Who Came From Somewhere Else...
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And Jasper makes three!
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Well, I bought a mixer...

after having mixed everything by hand for the past three years.  I had a KitchenAid hand mixer that bit the dust after many years of faithful use.  When I moved from our house to the apartment, I didn't think I'd need a mixer, so I didn't replace it.  After having attempted to make a cake several weeks ago, I realized that I did indeed have need of a hand mixer and I set about searching for the best heavy duty motor in a hand mixer for the best price.  Enter this cute little Cuisinart 9-speed mixer, complete with a whisk beater and dough hooks!  It also has a plastic base that holds the power cord and the attachments.  Fits neatly in my baking cupboard - I love it!
Perhaps a little too much...
I decided to make good old-fashioned pound cake using my Grandma's recipe: a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of sugar and a pound of eggs.  Apparently I beat that cake batter within an inch of its life because instead of being the dense cake I remember from my youth, it's light and fluffy.  Don't get me wrong - it tastes good, but it's more like chiffon cake than pound cake.  I guess that means the mixer works really well on dense batter.
I'll have to see how well it does with pumpkin bread...

3 comments:

  1. Love Cuisinart appliances. My food processor is one. The pound cake looks very good. I'm making pumpking bread tomorrow!
    Best,
    Susan

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  2. The pic looks delicious! We ahve a heavy duty KItchen Aid....the biggest one they have! LD has been through THREE of them! He now kneads his bread dough by hand! That way the mixer will last longer!

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