"Kitchen Aid" news and stories

This has got to be one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. I just came across a link to a site that sells flame decals for Kitchen Aid mixers!

The website, FlameKA.com, carries a wide variety of decals that will fit Kitchen Aid classic, the Artisan 4-6 quarts, and the Pro 600. They claim that the decals won't interfere with any attachments. They're also supposed to be easy to apply, long lasting, and great looking. The decals range from $15.95 to $36.95, so they're pretty reasonable also.

I hinted to Santa that I wanted a metallic pink Kitchen Aid with flame decals (I was only joking because I knew it wouldn't happen). The mixer I got was, and still is, awesome and pink. Now I know how to fulfill the rest of my wish.

*Full disclosure: FlameKA.com offers a 10% off coupon for anyone who links to the site. I'm not going to mess around with trying to redeem it, though.

[Via NotMartha]

For my last birthday, a (very generous) friend got me the ice cream maker that fits onto a Kitchen Aid mixer. I was thrilled to receive it, but then tucked it at the top of my kitchen cabinet and left it to languish for more than a month. My excuses were many, included the fact that life got busy, I didn't have room in my freezer to chill the bowl and I just didn't have any good recipes for ice cream.

However, in my travels through the many food blogs out there, I kept hearing about a book that contained fantastic and tasty recipes. The pictures and tales people posted tempted me out of my ice cream apathy, I ordered the book (David Lebovitz's The Perfect Scoop) and started my own experimentation with the wonders of homemade ice cream. My most recent batch was the Fresh Ginger Ice Cream (on page 43), and let me tell you, it was fantastic. I took it to dinner with friends, and at the end of the night I ran my finger around the bottom of the container in a vain attempt to grab the last few drops. The recipe is after the jump.

photo by Marisa McClellan