Kitchen Aid Bowl Lift Stand Mixer

This handy little spiral-bound book is the manual that came with my Professional Kitchen Aid mixer. I have yet to really broach adapting traditional recipes for use in the KA, so I've been steadily relying on this book. So far, the recipes are pretty solid, and I'm learning to rely quite heavily on it.

The majority of my efforts here were spent on bread recipes. I've made several variations of their basic white bread, which includes options for cinnamon bread, quick rolls, curlicues, and cloverleafs. Depending on the weather, I've found I frequently have to add extra flour. Typically the recipe is foolproof, although I did have one disaster loaf that was absurdly sticky, and although I ended up adding more flour, the final loaf ended up incredibly tough and spongy. I'll probably have to play around with the recipe some more to gain a consistent bread. I've also made the Honey Oatmeal Bread an Dill Batter Bread. The Honey Oatmeal Bread was delicious and made a great all-purpose loaf for sandwiches. The Dill Batter Bread was probably the oddest bread I've ever made, seeing as how it was both a yeast and a batter bread. It was absurdly sticky and took a lot of heat to rise, but surprisingly turned out great, and oddly tasted a bit like rye even though there was no rye in it.

The only recipe in here I've made that wasn't a bread, was Peanut Butter Cookies. It was an absurdly easy recipe to make, but the dough was insanely soft, and I'd definitely need to add more flour if I was to make them again.

In addition to breads and cookies, this also includes recipes for cakes, candies, appetizers, quiche, and meatloaf.