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The motha of all stand mixers - Kitchen Aid
All the opposite of its horrible useless little sistah the blender, the Kitchen Aid stand mixer is awesome! I make mashed potatoes, cookies, muffins, etc. Just throw everything in and it does all the work for you.
Beauty and the Business Suit
Several years ago, a friend of mine who is a writer in New York was commissioned to write a “Dummies” series book on Dressing for Success. She had compiled a whole photo shoot of clothes selected from a variety of the black, brown and navy family of colors, the more “typical” business colors favored by most women and men, or so she thought.She asked me what color suit I would wear to a business event. Black, brown or navy?Basic white bread for KitchenAid stand mixer
Ingredients:
½ cup low-fat milk
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
2 packages active dry yeast
1 ½ cups warm water (105 F to 115 F)
5-6 cups all-purpose flour
Preparation:
Place milk, sugar, salt, and butter in small saucepan. Heat over low heat until butter melts and sugar dissolves. Cool to lukewarm.
A brief tutorial on cupcakes and buttercream icing.
I needed to make a small batch of cupcakes for a man at church, so I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to both try out The Pioneer Woman's Best Chocolate Sheet Cake Ever and to show you a small tutorial on how I make buttercream icing and how to pipe it onto cupcakes. I felt the need to try this recipe because I have heard so many wonderful things about it, but I wanted to try it in cupcake form, so I halved the recipe. Here's the recipe and the following pictures that I took during the process.
Darkest Chocolate Crepe Cake
If you have the time and patience to make this beauty, it will be well worth it. Darkest Chocolate Crepe Cake Original recipe from Martha Stewart. Ingredients: 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces, plus melted for pan 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 cups whole milk, room temperature 6 large eggs, room temperature 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract Hazelnut Filling recipe to follow Chocolate Glaze recipe to follow Candied Hazelnuts recipe to follow Bring 1/4 cup water to a rolling boil in a small saucepan over medium-high heat.Key Lime Cupcakes with "lime jello salad" frosting
Key lime cupcake recipe-
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons grated key lime zest
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup key lime juice
Cream together the butter or margarine and 1 cup sugar. Beat until light and fluffy. Separate the eggs.
"Let them eat, Brioche!"
Melt in your mouth Brioche with nutella. With Step by step picture instructions! (I was bored) :P I like brioche.Goatbread Cookies
Goatbread Cookies From YumSugar 6 oz (1 1/2 sticks) goat butter (cut into 1" cubes) 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 tsp salt 1/3 cup rice flour 1 cup all-purpose flour- Preheat oven to 300F. Move oven rack to top 1/3 of the oven.
- In large bowl, or stand mixer, whisk salt and sugar together.
- Add butter, mix well. I mixed in stand mixer on medium until butter was completely blended and creamy (about 2 minutes via mixer).
Double Chocolate Layer Cake
This recipe is from http://www.epicurious.com. Enjoy! I think I am having a chocolate attack because I need some NOW!You Know You’re a Mom When…
…You are reading one of those books with the touch and feel pages. My son has one about trucks. It has actual black rubber for the wheels and hammered tin to represent the drum of a cement mixer.
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