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I am a strong believer that kitchen gadgets are great but there are some that just are timeless and stand alone. I can still remember the Christmas when my Grandma and Mom got theirs. They squealed and screamed while dancing around the Christmas tree. I was a kid so I was wondering what was all the fuss about a KitchenAid Mixer. Well, I am a believer NOW. I cooked my first Thanksgiving meal at the age of 13. I can still remember when it came time to learn to make my Grandma’s rolls. She brought in her harvest gold KitchenAid mixer from the car and set it right next to mine. She taught me the art of creaming butter, adding in the eggs one by one and then the delicate balance of adding the dry ingredients in with the wet. It was a dance between two generations and our Kitchen Aids. It was a day I will never forget and my first introduction to the world of KitchenAid. (Do not laugh at the bad hair and glasses…it was the early 80’s!)

I have been a long time consumer of KitchenAid products. Through the years I have acquired many of their appliances but my favorite is still the Stand Mixer. In fact, I have already told my daughter that she can have my pink one when she leaves home. My gift to her so she can share her love of cooking with others! Through the years KitchenAid Mixers really have not changed a lot in the way they look but boy have they been fine tuning that motor!!!

Get ready to meet KitchenAid’s newest Stand Mixer! 

  • I am pleased to introduce you to the largest, most powerful – and quietest – KitchenAid mixer ever made. With a more than enough 7-qt. capacity, this machine equips home bakers with a full range of high-performance commercial features for fast, efficient mixing and quality results.

    • Commercial design includes a bowl lift and heavy-duty metal knobs.
    • 1.3-horsepower motor delivers robust mixing and kneading with surprisingly quiet operation.
    • Planetary action allows attachments to spin independently while making continual rotations around the bowl for thorough mixing.
    • Ten speeds range from very slow stirring to very high beating.
    • Polished  7-qt. cap. stainless-steel bowl with comfort handle.
    • Professional whip with 11 stainless-steel wires operates 33% more quickly than typical whips for optimal aeration of egg whites or cream. (This means effortless whipped cream and egg whites!)
    • Commercial power hub works with all KitchenAid attachments.
    • Hand assembled in Greenville, Ohio, home of KitchenAid since 1919.
    • Includes wire elliptical whip and a flat beater and dough hook.
This new mixer Retails for $650! It is the Porsche of Mixers. I promise if you have this on your counter and a foodie enters your kitchen they will comment on your new KitchenAid!!
I am so thankful everyday for the blessings I am given so I am thrilled to announce…

GIVEAWAY

FOR THE NEWEST QUIETEST AND STRONGEST

KITCHENAID MIXER EVER!

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO GET AN ENTRY TO WIN IS DO ALL OF THE FOLLOWING!

  • COMMENT BY TELLING ME WHAT WOULD BE THE FIRST THING YOU WOULD MAKE WITH THE NEW 7 QT KITCHENAID MIXER IF YOU WON?
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**DRAWING WILL TAKE PLACE ON NOVEMBER 1ST, 2011. DRAWING WILL TAKE PLACE BY USING RANDOM.ORG AN INDEPENDENT DRAWING THAT IS A COMPUTER GENERATED PROGRAM!

Disclosure: Thanks to Kitchen Aid for providing this awesome mixer for this giveaway.  I was not compensated in any way for this post and all opinions, as always, are my own.

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  4. 4

    I think I would make…..hhhhmmmmmmmm – ice cream, Yes. I would get the attachment, if it is available and make ice cream. Homemade vanilla ice cream.

  6. 6

    I would have to start with some ice cream, and then fresh pasta! There might be a few cakes thrown in too. 🙂

  7. 7

    If I won the mixer I would make cookies with my girls. They love baking and helping out in the kitchen!

  8. 8

    I have made sugar cookies every year for Christmas and other holidays since 1969. I have burned out many a hand mixer on the cookie dough. I would also like to try homemade pasta!

  9. 9

    I would make anything and everything. I believe it would change my life. And my daughters’ lives. I could teach them how to cook. We are trying to eat healthier and I know this would make it easier.

  12. 12

    I would make oreo bon bons! And I’d ask my husband to make his fabulous chocolate chip cookies with pecans.

  14. 14

    I would make cinnamon rolls, there’s just nothing to beat the power of a Kitchen Aid!

  15. 15

    I would make something totally chocolate, with way too many calories!! Or I might make some yummy yummy pumpkin bread. 🙂

  16. 16

    I would probably make an earthquake cake or a recipe I have that uses egg whites and is decorated with meringues. I have dreamt of having one of these mixers. My sister inherited the one from my mother when she passed. Thanks for the opportunity.

  18. 18

    my husband is a firefighter for the army so the first thing i would make is homemade tamales for all the fireman in his department. they have worked so hard this year fighting all the fires on the wildlife refuge and trying to save all the protected wildlife, people and their homes across oklahoma. they tirelessly work without complaint in this oklahoma heat for sometimes days at a time. i try to make food for them as often as i can but it is difficult to make such large amounts of food for so many men without the right kitchen gadgets to assist me. winning this would be a blessing to not only me but all my fireman as well.

  19. 19

    I would make a bavarian german chocolate cake yummy!!!! Also a sweet carrot cassorole (taste like sweet potatoes) sooo Please let me win then my wife can have six month off from the kitchen 🙂

  22. 22

    I would make my mother’s family Christmas recipes (cookie cut-outs, banana bread, peppermint cookies)!!!! If I got it before Thanksgiving, it would have to be sweet potato and pumpkin pie! 🙂

  24. 24

    I have recently become legally blind and had to quit work so I have started cooking and baking more. The first thing I would make is bread and homemade cinnamon rolls. I have always wanted one of these mixers ad I couldn’t/can’t afford one.

  25. 25

    I had this urge to make some yummy peanut butter cookies last night and decided it was too late to mess up the kitchen and bake, but if I had myself a new Kitchenaid mixer like the one shown on here, I’d stay up past midnight making cookies! :0)

  26. 26

    I would not make anything. I would leave it up to my mom to make something from it. She has always wanted a kitchen aid but unable to afford one. She always supports us to do the very best we could, which left her with little for herself. She loves cooking and trying new recipes. If I won I would give it to her and make her dream come true. So she would have to come up with what would be first made in the Kitchen Aid Mixer.

  27. 27

    This year is going to be MY first year making Thanksgiving/Christmas dinner for my extended family. Usually my mother-in-law makes our Holiday meals, but my sister-in-law and I have decided to try our hand at it. This would make my pumpkin pies, mashed potatoes and pumpkin bread go so much smoother and quicker. My mother loves her Kitchen Aid and I have always wanted one!!!!

  28. 28

    Since my mother passed away I am now the family cook. I am only 32 years old and I cook every Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday for my family. Over the last 10 years I have taught myself how to make all the wonderful casseroles, my mothers wonderful homemade yeast bread and I can even make her homemade cinnamon rolls. I have also perfected from scratch red velvet cupcakes. To have a Kitchen Aid mixer would make all these wonderful recipes so much easier. This holiday season my goal was to learn to make homemade pie crust just like my mom and grandma use to make!

  29. 29

    I wouldnt know where to begin….. My son has undergone extensive testing for GERD… it has been a difficult transition, but he has been quite the trooper. But I bet he would pick something “sweet”, since he cannot have chocolate anymore, it’s been hard to find an alternative, cause who doesn’t love chocolate? Lol so whatever we would make first, it would have to be something sweet that hits the spot like chocolate.. Is that possible? ;•)) Thank you, ~The Jaime Family~

  31. 31

    Every Thanksgiving, I make homemade noodles and turkey for the senior citizens group at my church. So, that’s what I would make with my new Kitchenaid Ultimate “Power Tool”!

  33. 33

    I would mix up a batch of Rum BABAs like I featured on my blog today. I would need the paddle, dough hook and whipping beaters for this one recipe and a new KA would do the trick!

  34. 34

    My daughter and I make baked goods for a new church in Edmond, Ok. We give the treats to new comers to let them know we were excited that they came to worship on Sunday morning! We make large amounts of baked goods and it would be great to have a large heavy duty mixer to make large amounts of dough for cookies, breads, muffins, etc. The church is reaching out to people from every walk of life and people who may not feel comfortable in mainstream churches. Thanks

  35. 35

    I think I’d have a go at making bread. I *love* fresh, hot bread, but have always been afraid to try it myself, but a spiffy tool like this might give me just the courage I need!

  38. 38

    I would make my Mom’s chocolate cinnamon rolls with chocolate icing. We always have cinnamon rolls for Christmas morning for the “Baby Jesus Birthday Cake”, and this year they could be chocolate!!!

  39. 39

    I would make a birthday cake for my grandson’s first birthday with that beauty!!!! LOVE it!!!! I would also make some Irish soda bread, some Christmas cookies, and some cupcakes for all of our holiday celebrations.

  41. 41

    I would make all kinds of desserts to share every Friday with all the people from all walks of life that attend Celebrate Recovery at our church.

  42. 42

    Eee! What would be the FIRST thing??? I think I would owe it to the KitchenAid to make my fave Chocolate Chip cookies! Yum!

  43. 43

    Sunday Dinner…it’s all capitalized because it is an EVENT, especially when you have 12 kids, two grown and married, that all live within the same city. What is Sunday Dinner without mashed potatoes. I currently use my KitchenAid, but have to mix them up in two batches. What a wonder the bigger, better, Cadillac version of KitchenAid would be!

  44. 44

    First I would give it to my mom as her Kitchen Aid is on it’s last leg. She makes wedding cakes so it has been used a lot. She would make every dessert possible for all of us kids! I would ask for her chocolate cake first!

  45. 45

    I just finished compiling a family cookbook with recipes from many generations of family members…I would love to have a new mixer to make the recipes that my grandma and great aunts used to make…pies, cakes, amazing breads…all from scratch! I think homemade dinner rolls would be the first item on my list.

  48. 48

    Wow! Caryn, this is a great mixer! I have Always wanted a stand Mixer, I still have and still use my hand held mixer. When growing up I use to bake a lot using my easy bake oven, I Still Love To Bake! I would use this mixer to bake All sorts of yummy desserts and use it to create delicious desserts for my youngest daughter’s so many food allergies. This would be helpful for my family household. 🙂

  55. 55

    Liked you officially via GFC, FB, and Twitter. 🙂 And I would make …. oh maybe some sinfully decadent brownies! Or something more seasonal like pumpkin bread or an apple bread. Definitely something sweet!

    And I have ALWAYS wanted one of these mixers! 🙂

  56. 56

    I have always wanted one of these!
    If I won, I would make my kids’ favorite pumpkin muffins, which my sore biceps would thank me for what with all the mixing I’ve had to do by hand…

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    I “liked” you on Facebook, but fyi, that is against Facebook guidelines and if they found out and wanted to they could delete your page.

  69. 70

    I am a cancer survivor (I think!) as I have just finished my final chemo cycle and am about to have my breast reconstruction expander replacement surgery in this next month. So, this giveaway, and blog post, are awesome!!

  73. 74

    Oh my! That’s my DREAM Kitchen Aid! If I had that Kitchen Aid, the first thing I would whip up would be a batch of homemade, extra large, chewy chocolate chip cookies for my children. I could double or triple the batch with that Kitchen Aid! The large chocolate chip cookies would be followed by an old time favorite: M&M cookies (and they’d be super sized too). What a great appliance to have for the upcoming holidays! I’ve wanted that particular model for awhile. With a family of six and the amount of cooking I do, it would be super useful.

  74. 75

    PS- Got ya on Twitter, Facebook, and the Google Connect thing wasn’t working for me, but I did get you added manually. 🙂 Great job on the site! Loving the recipes!

  75. 76

    The first thing that came to mind was buttercream frosting and then I thought bread dough and from there my mind just wandered on!

    I follow via GFC, Twitter, and Facebook.

  76. 77

    I’d love to win this for my husband. He loves cooking. While I’m not a great cook, I like to bake. I make him soft sugar cookies every year for Valentine’s Day, and I’m sure I’d use it for that.

  80. 81

    Old fashioned Ginger cookies — the dough is just too much for me to mix effectively since I am weakened by my illness. I can almost taste them already!

  81. 82

    Holy cow!!!! I would ToTAlLY make cupcakes from scratch!!! Red velvet and cream cheese icing! I work with ALL guys and they would LOVe me!!!!

  82. 83

    I would make chocolate chip cookies for the kids, and the KC’s Apple Cake for my hubby. Pick me I want to win!!!

  83. 84

    i would make my favorite peanut butter cookies and cake balls I might even send you some. Lol

  86. 87

    I would make my homemade bread, then attempt dinner rolls. Haven’t tried them yet. Love to bake!!!! With a new Kitchenaide I would spend even more time in the kitchen.

  88. 89

    I’d make CAKE. Because CAKE is my MOST FAVORITEST FOOD EVER. If I’m offered a last meal, I’m going to ask for CAKE. Because it’s the best tasting thing out there. And this awesome mixer would do the job amazingly!!

  90. 91

    I would make my hubby a Lemon Pie for his birthday
    And a coconut made from scratch cake for my birthday
    Finally I would make my favorite fall delicious apple cake or green apple bread yummmmy

  91. 92

    Yowza! I am loving this! I do everything on the list and the first thing I’d make is some homemade pumpkin pie filling….we’re picking sugar pumpkins next week!

  92. 93

    I would make a Christmas cookies, more Christmas Cookies and EVEN MORE Christmas cookies!!!!! I would Love it!

  93. 94

    I would throw away my 30 year old gold colored hand mixer and start mixing the way I was intended to mix!!! I have wanted one for so long but I am on a fixed income so I deal with the hand mixer or just simply using my hands!

  99. 100

    Got my first 4 qt mixer for my first Mother’s Day as a gift from my mom. She said, “I see a lot of cookies and cupcakes in your future.” Now that my mother has passed everytime I use my mixer I think of her and her thoughtfulness. Unfortunately, it’s not big enough to double many recipes – which I often do. I definitely could do it with this one!

  100. 101

    If I won this Kitchen Aid Mixer the first thing I would do is garage sale my Sunbeam mixer.
    The first thing I’d make with my new mixer is my Granny’s Red Velvet cake.

  102. 103

    Homemade Oreos would be the 1st thing I made w/this beauty! I’d even share! I love Smitten Kitchen’s recipe for them, but I make a peanut butter frosting for the filling. YUM!

  106. 107

    So, I got this bright idea and for some stupid reason I volunteered to make the entire Thanksgiving dinner for my whole family by myself. I know. I’m an idiot. I had this out-of-body moment where I actually saw myself saying it and asking myself, “did I just say that”? I have since been dreading Thanksgiving ever since. The endless stirring & mixing all recipes by hand because I don’t have a mixer that can handle anything more than a cake mix. So anyway, this would be a HUGE motivator for me and maybe I could start liking Thanksgiving again?

  113. 114

    I would mix up a huge batch of Buckeyes…my Granny’s recipe and my all time favorite Candy!!!! 🙂

  115. 116

    I follow you on Twitter as daphunnone.. and follow you on facebook!
    I would love one of these.. making bread dough much easier.. then I could make lots of cinnamon buns!

  120. 121

    If I won this I would male the biggest cake I could including ALL the ingredients I avoid because I DON’T have a mixer!!!!!

  121. 122

    I would probably make a batch of chocolate chip cookies for my family. They’re my signature! I get rave reviews for such a simple cookie…simple but delicious! 🙂

  122. 123

    Wow! What an awesome prize! I would go mixing crazy and make anything I could think of!

  123. 124

    I would make a batch of sweet roll dough and make some coffeecakes with pecans from our trees and also some sticky rolls!

  128. 129

    I would make my first FULL THANKSGIVING DINNER!! From mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie and homemade rolls! Hopefully! 🙂

  130. 131

    There are so many things I want to make that it is so hard to pick one. I love fresh baked bread so it will have to be bread! I am also planning on making tons of goodies for Christmas this year!!

  133. 134

    I would make my famous cheesecake that I haven’t made in ages. I follow you on Twitter and Facebook and now follow your blog. What a great giveaway!

  135. 136

    I would make my mother a cake. My mom is visiting with my sister right now who just had twins (7 weeks early) and is quite exhausted. So I would love to make her some devils food cake with WHIP cream icing and little sprinkles on it. I would also make some dough for some spanish delicacies called pasteles and alcapurias! woo hoo!!

    It will NOT let me go on google connect. what do I do?????

  136. 137

    What I would make with this bad boy? How about everything I could get my hands on! My granny made her own dough for Chicken and Dumplings. She was famous for her Chicken and Dumplings. I have her recipe, but have never been able to do it justice. With a new stand mixer I would blow the recipe out of the water! I could make as many dumplings as I wanted, because my hand wouldn’t fall off because of a hand mixer. 😉 Granny would be proud.

  145. 146

    I would make my grandmother’s Caramel Poundcke recipe! Yum! I am a new follower on Facebook, Twitter and Google Friend Connect! Love your stuff:)

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      I’m following you on Twitter and liked you on Facebook. I can’t figure out the Google friend connect?..

  153. 155

    I would make my grandma’s Orange cookies. I had lost the recipe for over 10years and just found it again this week.

  155. 157

    I would make Christmas cookies and cupcakes for all my family and friends. And….I would give my current KitchenAid mixer to my niece, who loves baking as much as I do.

  159. 161

    I would make Dorie Greenspan’s World Peace Cookies again! I’d love to win this mixer!

  161. 163

    The first thing I would make with this new KitchenAid mixer would be a Chocolate Syrup Pound Cake. I have an old KitchenAid that has made hundreds of pound cakes over the years as well as many other cakes. KitchenAid is wonderful!!!!!!

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    Woo! With my new mixer, I’d make a cake for one of the foster kids in our county. I’m a part of a group that does this monthly. I could make a bigger, better cake than with my tiny little mixer that barely holds one cake mix. It would totally make the day for the kiddos!!!!

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    I would be the happiest girl in the world making my Christmas cookies. I have the smallest version and when you are trying to double-batch it’s the hardest thing in the world.

  169. 171

    I would make chocolate chip cookies. Some of my earliest memories are of me watching my Mom make bread dough with her Kitchenaid mixer (she still uses it at least weekly 27 years later).

  170. 172

    I would make lots of cookies for the holidays!
    I follow you on twitter, like you on facebook and am connected to you blog!

  171. 173

    I would probably whip up a nice batch of cookies, then some bread, and more scones! 🙂 I absolutely adore that mixer! We have a Kitchen Aid mixer at home and have had it for years. Awesome products! I liked you on Facebook. =D

  178. 180

    Gosh what a gorgeous mixer! I’d make a batch of bread then eat several slices hot out of the oven, with a generous slathering of butter!

  179. 181

    I would definitely make Marshmallow because there is nothing better than homemade marshmallows and you almost can’t make them without a stand mixer!

  182. 184

    i would make a lemon marengue pie with my 13 year old grand-daughter. it’s her favorite and my hand mixer died. she is becoming very active in my kitchen and i know we could whip up many many yummy creations with this mixer=)

  183. 185

    It would be really nice to win since I really need it.. the first thing I would make if I won would have to be…Homemade fondant to create a beautiful cake ;)…I can only dream that I will one day own one. Blessings 🙂

  187. 190

    I would probably make a triple batch of my son’s safe banana bread or wacky cake. Would love to have this to do it in.

  189. 192

    Without a doubt,it’d be my nana’s pound cake; a stand mixer is essential in creating the proper structure for cakes, and I know her pound cake would be fantastic if mixed up in this lovely mixer. 🙂

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    I would make so many cookies and cheesecakes. My arms would be thankful 😀 all that mixing hurts

  191. 194

    The first thing I would do would be to make my Mom’s chocolate chip cookies. She was famous for them, but used an older stand mixer that had no guts! I have often said, ” Wow…if Mom had only had a Kitchen Aid!” She died in 1989, when my oldest was just one year old. But I have instilled the love of the kitchen…especially baking, into my 3 kids. They all know their way around the kitchen pretty well….would make their Gramma Henry proud!

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    I’d so make a 4-layer tiramisu cake! I love it, but it’s a lot of batter to handle! 🙂

  194. 197

    I would make Christmas cookies to send to my husband and son, both of which are currently serving in Afghanistan. I am a Navy wife and an Air Force Mom and they both love their home made goodies.

  196. 199

    I’ve been wanting to make a cinnamon swirl breakfast bread for a while now–this mixer would make doing that so much easier! So that’s what I would make.

  197. 200

    I would make sugar cookies dough and royal icing for decorate the sugar cookies, also tres leches cake and whipped cream frosting.

  199. 202

    The first thing I would make would be a toss up of some kind of cheesecake – probably pumpkin cause it’s the season and peanut butter surprise cookies. I’d make both in the same day, the order would be determined by the hubby’s stomach. Oh the thought of making cheesecake so easy with a stand mixer makes me smile and squee. 🙂

  200. 203

    I would make bread. Doesn’t matter what kind, I love it all! The mixer takes the chore out of kneading so bread baking is a breeze!

  203. 206

    Well, since I’m in college and have very limited space it would most likely be staying at home with mom and dad, but I would definitely be making some avocado cheesecake as soon as I’m home!

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    I would make lots & lots of pumpkins baked goods ( Pumpkin Roll, Pumpkin Muffins…) Love this time of year!

  210. 213

    If I got this kitchenaid mixer the first thing I would likely make is our weekly homemade pizza for my family’s “pizza Friday.” It is a weekly tradition. That, or a head start on the holiday baking with my mother’s pumpkin bread recipe!

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    Lumberjacks! My favorite cookie – soft molasses-spice cookies. I would kill for this mixer.

  215. 218

    I do not know what I would do first. I love baking, but the idea of homemade pasta. My own Kitchenaid is my dream come true!

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    The first thing I would make would be marshmallows or Italian buttercream! My 4.5 quart is so small I can’t do any fun, fluffy stuff. I would LOVE to have this mixer to grow my little at home cake business.

    I’m following you on Twitter and Facebook but could not get the Google Friend Connect link to work. I tried several times and will keep trying.

  220. 223

    A nice big batch of whole wheat bread…those other mixers just can’t hold up to whole grain doughs!

  222. 225

    Pizza dough would be the first thing I’d use a Kitchen Aid mixer for. I’ve always wanted to make one since I saw Levar Burton make pizza on an episode of Reading Rainbow way back when. Would be a childhood dream come true!

  224. 227

    The first thing I would bake would be a cake with frosting made as only one can with their Kitchen Aid mixer. 🙂

  227. 230

    I would make pizza dough and bread dough. I have a recipe for really good garlic rolls made with pizza dough. mmmmm

  228. 231

    Are you kidding me? What WOULDN’T I make with this fabulous machine?! I am a cake artist, so I could make cakes, cookies, frostings, fondant…omg I am getting a brain freeze just thinking about it!!!!
    I liked you on facebook and now follow you on twitter and google friend connect!

  235. 238

    I would pull out a yeast bread recipe, maybe the old Cinnamon Swirl Loaf, and make a few loaves for the family.

    Thanks!
    KellyH

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    I would make 2 of my chocolate chip cookie pies. Gosh this would save my hands soo much pain and me so much time!

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    This mixer would be large enough to make a DOUBLE batch of my soft, homemade dinner rolls!!

    Follow you via GFC, Twitter, and FB!

  245. 248

    I would definitely make red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese icing!! My absolute favorite!

  246. 249

    I would triple my recipe for Pumpkin Bread and bake up multiple loaves for the holidays!

  251. 254

    I would make a HUGE batch of homemade marshmellows to dunk into a nice hot cup of cocoa 🙂 the best tool for a big job like marshmellows is a Kitchen Aid mixer for sure!

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    I have wanted to give my daughter Katie a Red Kitchen Aid mixer just like the one in the ad for 2 years. She is the dessert maker of the family and makes cupcakes for all her co-workers on their birthday !!!

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    Pfeffernuesse. It’s coming up on Christmas, and the last person who made them in my family just passed away. I would honor my grandmother, and hold to family traditions, all in the name of delicious cookies!

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    So…. I tried to “LIKE MY PAGE ON GOOGLE FRIEND CONNECT” but the link is broken/won’t work. I tried to go straight to “Google Friend Connect” but you have to sign in and in order to sign in you have to create an account and in order to create an account you have to have a webpage/URL and I don’t. I did “Join Your Page” above (the box with all the pictures of followers) in case that is really what you were asking us to do. Whew!

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    I have had a seriously hard time coming up with the very first thing I would make. I think that it would have to be marshmallows, or Swiss Meringue Buttercream. A girl can dream…

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    Aloha from Maui!! The first thing I would make is a huge batch of Tahitian Vanilla Bean cut-out cookies and then a huge batch of royal icing…and then I’d decorate some of those cookies to look like my new Kitchen Aid Mixer!!

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    If I were to win this beautiful Kitchenaid mixer, I would make cookies for Christmas, cheesecake for my birthday for my coworkers, and I would buy the ice cream attachment and make ice cream any day. Then I would join a gym to work it all off.

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    I would try to make my traditional challa recipe with 5 lbs of flour. They told me that the 6 qt mixer couldn’t do it…surely the 7 qt mixer could?

    (Also, I’m trying to connect via Google Friend Connect, but I keep on getting an error message. I was able to follow you on FB & Twitter.)

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    I’ve been needing a big mixer to make a double batch of cookie dough for the upcoming holiday. Our 4.5 quart can only handle at the max 1 1/2 recipe otherwise it’s flying flour all over the counter. Sure would be cool to win one.

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    I would use this mixer to make cookies for the members of our coffee group here at our senior apartment complex. Also I would love to have it for making bread. My hands can’t knead the dough any more.

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    I have never had a stand mixer. I have not been able to afford one yet. However I think the possibilities would be endless. Cookies, cakes, bread dough, and merange. Yipee.

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    If I were to win this mixer, I would lock myself in my kitchen for days going cake/muffin/cookies/bread/and scone crazy. But in all actuality, I’d make some pumpkin spice cheesecake for the celebration of Autumn. (And my new mixer, of course 😉 )

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    I would make pumpkin cheesecake. Yum! I followed with Google Friend connect and already was following on Twitter (acctodenise). Liked your FB page as According to Denise.

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    Yeah everyone!!! Super excited to hear about all of your dishes!! Should have asked for you to share some recipes too!!

    Sorry for the confusion on the google friend connect! I have removed that requirement! Just happy to have all of these new visitors, fb and twitter friends!
    Sassy Mama

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    My dad has cancer so the first thing i would make would be his all time favorite cookies my grandma taught me how to make them and my mixer is to small for the recipe so i make it in two bowls this would make it alot easier.

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    I haven’t had real mashed potatoes in years… I’d make mashed potatoes.
    after that it would be cookies. Chocolate chip of course!

    I’ve liked you on facebook too

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    facebook and twitter follower and this would make my weekly challah making so much easier- finally a mixer that will really hold 6 lbs of flour!

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    Oh my gosh! I’ve been wanting a KitchenAide for as long as I can remember. I know the very first thing I would make is a double batch of yummy pumpkin bread. Thank you so much for the opportunity.

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    I would bake my husband tons and tons of homemade cookies and bread! He’s deployed but we’re hoping he will be home by the holidays so what a treat it would be to share a sweet treat for my amazing husband. 🙂

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    The first thing I would make is my daughters favorite chocolate chip cookies with her. She loves to cook with me and this would make it so nice for both us to bake cakes and cookies together.

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    I have just started making sugar cookies and royal Icing and go to my sisters house to use her KitchenAid!!! I could save so much time!

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    I would make the full challah recipe that I have that has proven to be a bit too much for my current mixer.

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    I dont have a kitchen aid but boy do I dream of it, I would love to win this one!!
    The first thing I would make would be cinnamon rolls, and bread, and cookies, and pizza dough and……

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    I definitely need to make bagels again, and a big powerful mixer is a must! I think that’d be priority #1 with this bad boy. 🙂

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    Wow…being a recent college grad and finally learning my way around the kitchen, there are so many things I would love to make! I come from an Italian family, and needless to say, everyone is a phenomenal cook! That being said, the first thing(s) I would make would be traditional Italian desserts: cookies, pastries, tiramisu! My very first Kitchenaid product deserves to be used for a special recipe, and what is more special than recipes from the family? 🙂

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    I would MAKE a lot of people happy! I could whip up so many yummy-good creations with that beauty!!

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    I would most definitely make snickerdoodles. Then I would be the happiest girl in the whole USA

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    Whether it’s for charity, PTA, family or friends, I love baking iced sugar cookies and other baked goods. My current Kitchen Aid mixer its on it’s last leg, even though it’s only two years old. The new mixer would mean more goodies, less time in the kitchen and more time with my kiddos!

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    The first thing I would make is sweet potato pie! I usually make them for my family every year and it seems like I can never make enough. I’d be able to make even more!

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    OH Caryn How I would love the have the GRANDMOTHER of all mixers, The Big Kitchen-aid, I would attempt to make homemade bread, I repeat attempt. I have been a follower of your blog, you are liked on facebook and I even reactivated my tweeter account (cooking with divas) just for you:) and google connect?? never sure if it took it.

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    Oh I HOPE I win! I I just completed a cake decorating class… I’m thinking of ALL the possibilities for delicious frosting, cakes, pops & MORE! OH MYYYYYY OHHHH MEEEEE OOOOOHHHHH MYYYYY I sooooo wanna win 🙂
    Thanks for hosting this awesome giveaway for this amazing mixer!

    Lori Tierney


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    I would make a full batch, maybe even a double of my no fail sugar cookie dough. Oh my gosh would it be awesome to do an entire batch all at once! I love my 5Qt, but I do believe it’s on it’s last legs and it just can’t handle my demands anymore 🙂 I am a follower on Twitter (LoveInDetails) and Facebook. Thank you so much for the chance to win, I would be over the moon!

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    I think I would make a homemade pumpkin cheesecake. I make one every year for the family Thanksgiving “feast” but it would just be all the more enjoyable with this amazing mixer!

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    I’d make wheat bread. I made my first loaves of white bread this last spring and I am ready to try wheat. I’d love to own this beautiful mixer!

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    My aunt has this recipe for a chocolate cake that must take 15 lbs of chocolate. That would be the first thing I made!! My mom has the smaller version of one of these and I keep trying to steal it!! 😉

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    first would be as huge bowl of whipped cream….that i would bury my face in!

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      oops! that’s neu….you’d think with a name this short, I could get it right 🙂

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    I liked your facebook page, posted what first thing I would like to make and I am following you on Twitter. Thank you for this chance to win this special mixer.

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    Ohmygosh. I have been eyeing this double fudge Guinness brownie recipe for awhile now. I think it’d have to be that.

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    The first thing I’d do is make an orange marmalade cake (the famous one from Jan Karon’s “Mitford” series). I’ve wanted to make one for years, but my puny hand mixer can’t handle it!

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    I would definitely have an appreciate cake for my mom and Grams, by making a traditional black rum cake. It’s not easy and there’s lots of prep time but they love it and it’s not the kind of cake made often.

    I “liked” you on facebook and twitter (though one uses a different email.

    Thanks!

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    Everything I could. I’ve never had a mixer that nice and probably never will unless I win. I’m retired now and hope to do alot of baking. I can just see me and my new Kitchen Aide mixing up lots of goodies for my family and friends.

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    I would use it to prepare Thanksgiving dinner at my house. It’s my first time to host since I moved back to Oklahoma! So excited!

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    The only mixer I’ve ever owned was my mom’s little handheld electric one that was older than me, I just turned 17, and it up and died not too long ago.. Other than that little guy I’ve always hand mixed everything. I’ve always wanted to be a baker and the kitchen is kind of my domain of the house, so it’d really be a blessing to win this. The first thing I would make would probably be a cake for my boyfriend, he’s always been so good to me and I’ve never had much to give but my heart and love for baking in return. They always said the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach 🙂

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    Would have to make fresh pasta for lasagna for my hubby with some Italian bread and maybe an Italian wedding cake or chocolate mousse for dessert:-)

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    I just said this on your Facebook page, but I would take my mixer home and have my Mom show me how to make all her Christmas cookie recipes! Her mixer is 29+ years old and still going strong. A great product I’d be lucky to have!

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    If I had this new mixer, I would make my Mother’s sour cream pound cake. The mix is very stiff and a regular mixer has a hard time beating the dough….. Wow. That is one fancy machine!

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    is it cheating if i say my birthday is on the 2nd and this would be the BEST bday gift EVER?

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    I love baking bread from scratch, and making bread would be my first project along with pasta.
    Thanks for asking

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    If I won this mixer, I would make memories. At a time when most teen girls and their moms are hating each other, my 14 year old daughter and I have found that we are closer than ever by sharing our love of cooking. We spend at least an hour every day in the kitchen making the most delicious food for the rest of the family. The kitchen has become our haven and during our time spent there, I have discovered just how amazing of a young woman my 14 year old is. While cooking, we share our secrets, hopes and dreams. On the weekends, her friends come over and they share our time together and I have been discovering so much about their generation. My daughter has decided that she wants to be a chef and has chosen her top 3 picks of culinary schools she would like to attend. I have wanted a KitchenAid mixer since I first got married, but it always seemed the money was needed for other things and now I am now saving money for my daughter’s dream. Being a mom is never easy, but sacrificing to be able to help her fulfill her dream makes it extremely rewarding.

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    I would make my kids their favorite…. oatmeal cookies!! I have always used a crappy hand mixer (I think I’ve used the same one for 10+ years) and with 4 kids under 8 I know that we could create many new recipes and new traditions with a fancy stand mixer!

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    Mom does a lot of baking over the holidays so we’d use it for cakes, cookies and homemade bread. I’d also get her the meat grinding attachment so she could make her own sausage and ground beef.

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    The first thing I would make with this mixer would be an early Thanksgiving dinner for my husband. Rolls, pie, cookies, cake, mashed potatoes & anything else I can put into it. He is always on the road due to his work & unfortunately won’t be home for Thanksgiving.

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    If I won I would make cookies with my 2 year old son! He loves to make cookies but it is so hard doing them by hand with no mixer. I follow you on FB 🙂

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    My wife and I have always wanted one of these (a KitchenAid). I would use it to make pizza dough first.

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    If I won, the first thing I would make is my mother in laws divinity recipe. I have a Sunbeam mixer and the motor is not big enough to make her recipe, so if I tried, I would burn it up! She makes her divinity every year for Christmas and I would love to be able to make it at home and teach my daughter how.

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