It was my first time, and it was beyond my dreams. I have just had my first experience with a Kitchen Aid mixer.
I am about to undertake a networking blitz on the town of
I am a very good cook, but I don’t really have a sweet tooth
(weird, I know) and so I rarely make desserts or sweet snacks. But I decided that if my entrée into business
offices was going to be a tin of cookies, they better be homemade.
I am not a fan of grocery store cookies, at least not my
grocery. They taste a lot like boxed or
pre-made cookies, mostly flavorless and loaded with chemicals. So, even if cookies from the local HEB would
work in theory, they don’t work for me.
So I thought about the kinds of cookies people seem to like,
and settled on peanut butter – with the crisscross fork design on top, and good
old toll house chocolate chip.
I went to the grocery yesterday and ventured into the baking
aisle. I have been there before when I
am making bread. But I cannot recall the
last time I bought semi-sweet chocolate chips.
This afternoon, I assembled all my ingredients and got a
cursory lesson on how to run the Kitchen Aid – it has been in my kitchen for
about 4 years, but I have never even touched it – or lifted it, it is quite heavy.
I put in one cup of chunky peanut butter, one cup butter,
one cup brown sugar; one cup granulated sugar, and slid the switch on. The big white beater turned slowly and then
faster and faster as I increased the speed. It was creaming the butter-sugar mixture, actually, effortlessly turning
butter and sugar into a fluffy mixture that was ready for the eggs and the rest
of the ingredients.
I was in love.
As I watched the beater whirl around the stainless steel
bowl, I wondered how I ever managed to survive in the kitchen without a kitchen
aid. It seemed as if I had been living
in the 1800’s and with the turn of the switch, I joined the 21st
century.
My cookie dough is chilling in the fridge, and I can’t seem
to wipe the smile off my face.
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