What do you use your Kitchenaid mixer for?

[3goofyboys]

You can also get attachments. I've heard good reviews about the ice cream maker attachment, but we have a small freezer so I don't have personal opinion...maybe somebody else here does???

I'm not much of a baker/cook, so mine doesn't get used much. However, since it was a gift, I'll keep it .

I do have the ice cream maker. I really like it, but honestly we don't make ice cream very often.

I am embarrassed to say that I hardly ever use mine, mainly because I don't have any good recipes. My husband gave it to me last Xmas and I was so excited to get it and use it. After reading this I'm going to dig it out and see if I can find some good recipes. Anyone have any recipes they want to share or know a good website to get some?
Thanks!

I just use any recipe I would normally use, but I think the KitchenAid site has some recipes to get you started.

 

[hipchickie]

I have this attachment set, and I use it a ton.
It has 3 slicing inserts, to do everything from the smallest which I use grating cheese for homemade mac and cheese and carrots for carrot cake, a thin slice that I use for things like southern cucumber salad, and a thicker one which I use for things like apples for muffins and pies.
It also has an attachment I use when I process fresh tomatoes to make sauce, you just throw the tomatoes in and the good stuff comes out the bottom, the skin and seeds come out separate tube. There is also a meat grinder attachment, but I admit, I don't use that one much.

I am a pastry chef, so I do have 2 KA that I use in my bakery for baking, but I have a 3rd one that is in my home kitchen, and what I mostly use that for is things like bread dough, mashed potatoes, whipping egg whites for belgian waffles, fritter batter....I am sure there is more that that is off the top of my head. I do not even own a hand mixer

This a random recipe, I was thinking of it because I just made it in my KA tonight. Super fast bread recipe for when you realize you forgot to make bread to go with the soup for dinner

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/quick/recipe-notime-bread-040653

 

[Gigi22]

The Kitchen Aid does a killer job on whipping egg whites. DH gets an angel food cake, frosted, for his birthday. The eggs wouldn't whip nearly as high in another mixer. I also like that I can use the mixer to mix fruitcake batter--I remember my Mom burning out the motor on her Sunbeam stand mixer trying to mix fruitcake.

 

[monorailsilver]

Making cookies, cakes, whipping up a whipped cream topping.

Mixing potatoes to make them mashed-either sweet or white ones.

I love to have things mixing away while I am cleaning up the mess that I just created.

I have had it for 10 years & still don't have any attachments but would love some.

 

[left210]

Cookies:
2 c butter
2 c sugar
2 eggs
2 T vanilla
5 c flour

This makes great rollout cookies. If you let it come to room temperature and get kind of soft it can be used in a cookie press.

These are great when tinted for Halloween or Christmas cutouts. One of the few cutout cookies that actually tastes good. Note: no baking powder or baking soda which would tend to make roll-out cookies lose their shape when baked.

I like to use a cookie press to make star shapes and put a pecan half or a candied cherry (I use red for some, green for others) on top.

The cookie tastes different depending on how thick you roll the dough. Very thin makes a crisp cookie. Thicker makes for a softer cookie.

I've made these for decades, and people beg for these or reminisce when I gave them a large tin of them for Christmas years ago.

Thanks for the recipe. Now I can use my mixer for the first time and try out some new Star Wars cookie cutters we just got! Ok sounds like a crazy question but is there a certain attachment I would use for the mixing of this? See you can tell I have really never used this thing before. One more question: Can someone give me a good mashed potato recipe to try in my mixer?

 

[cnj]

I use it for all of my baking. I also use it for mashed potatoes, Empanada mixtures, and sometimes (even though my husband thinks it's gross) to make tuna salad.

 

[Sparkleshine]

I also do all the above. I also have a dip recipe that I make and it is just faster in the KA. It calls for cream cheese sour cream and green chiles so the KA can really incorporate it all very well!

 

[disneyeveryyear]

Cheesecake!!!!

When trying to mix 8 bricks of cream cheese with sugar, etc, I wouldn't be without my KA.

We have had ours so long I had to order a new beater this month. The paint had begun to peel off the old one. I guess the dishwasher isn't the best place to wash the beater. Oh well. Well worth the cost.

 

[Kathi OD]

I am embarrassed to say that I hardly ever use mine....My husband gave it to me last Xmas and I was so excited to get it and use it.
Thanks!

This is pretty much me, except my parents gave it to me as payment for doing their taxes (I didn't ask for any payment, mom just knew I wanted one and surprised me).

I've used a few times with great results, but I don't like it sitting on the counter all the time and it's so heavy that dragging it out of the cabinet all the time is a pain in the butt.

I really feel guilty that I don't use it more often. Maybe I should just suck it up and deal w/ it on the counter all the time.