My New Toy

I hate that it has been so long sine I've posted.  I have not had the time to cook anything cool or do any kind of blogging in the past few months!  I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that your new year is starting off perfect!  I wanted to share a gift I got for Christmas.  I have been talking for years about getting a stand mixer and I finally got one.  I love it!  I ended up getting the KithenAid Pro 500.  I went with the metal color so that when I eventually get my perfect kitchen it will match my stainless appliances.

This mixer is awesome!  I baked a cake and made buttercream icing from a recipe book that came in the box.  I was not impressed with either recipe so I'm still looking for that perfect cake and icing recipe.  If you have one I would love for you to share it with me!  I am going to have so much fun baking.   This week I am going to try a different recipe for a yellow cake with simple buttercream icing.  I am going to be using the recipe from America's Test Kitchen and I will blog about how it turns out!!

So for your enjoyment (or maybe just mine) here are some pictures of my new favorite kitchen appliance. 

The next picture is the cake that I made....Everything turned out but the cake was a little dry for my liking and all I could taste was the shortening.  The buttercream was pretty good but I know there are better recipes out there!

If your ever in the area, stop by and let's bake together!