I am new here and have a question I am sure you can help me with. I love to bake, hence my name... and have never broken down and bought a stand mixer. I find I'm baking less as my arthritis has gotten bad in my hands, and O make hubby help me mix things. No more of that! My birthday is this month and I am getting a KA! I am looking to spend under $300. Here is what I most like to make: monster cookies, think lots of oatmeal and peanut butter various oatmeal cookie recipes cakes icing mixing meatloaf bread and rolls (in breadmaker, but would likely use the KA for this as well) Can this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000LSZ01...=UTF8&s=kitchen KA stand up to monster cookies, for example, and do everything else I would do? This is a good deal and seems to be a good size bowl. I don't want to buy something that won't work, and I realize my horribly huge monster cookie recipe would have to be halved or fourthed and that is okay, the main thing is that *I* can bake again on my own. I can always do a second small batch if need be. I like to make double batches of cookies and freeze dough balls, so would that mixer accomodate double batches (or normal sized recipes, not double of my huge monster cookie recipe ). If there is another KA that would meet my needs, please advise. Thanks so much, I look forward to getting to know people here and learning a lot!
