{"id":1471,"date":"2009-08-03T15:02:57","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T07:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1471"},"modified":"2014-06-18T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T04:44:49","slug":"my-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1471","title":{"rendered":"My New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, my RM99 cake mixer broke down on me half way creaming icing for the cupcakes I made for Zara&#8217;s birthday celebration. Since then, I&#8217;d been asking myself the question, should I get another RM99 cake mixer? Or should I go for a good one?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been looking at the Kenwood models, wanting to get one which is made in Italy or England, but I found the RM2xxx ones are all Made in China. No way I&#8217;m going to pay so much for a China made machine.<\/p>\n<p>I asked around those baking gurus, most of them are using KitchenAid, and if they were not, they planned to get one in future. Then I saw the KitchenAid Artisan mixer in Tropicana City, and that&#8217;s it, my search for a mixer is over. <strong>KitchenAid it is!<\/strong> Fully Made in USA (except the bowl which is from Korea), it&#8217;s beautiful, and comes in various colours.  <\/p>\n<p>We didn&#8217;t get it immediately because Singaore is selling almost RM700 cheaper, and we were wondering if we should make a trip down south to get the mixer. <\/p>\n<p>We made about another 4 trips to the same shop in Tropicana City looking and touching the machine, waiting for a price reduction (and contemplating at the same time); even Zara started questioning, <span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">&#8220;Why do we keep coming back to this shop?&#8221;<\/span> and she even learnt, <span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">&#8220;Not everything I want, I should get. You like the cake mixer so much, you also didn&#8217;t buy, right?&#8221;<\/span> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, last weekend, I told Daddy, enough of waiting, I want to get it!! And we did! So happened there was some promo running, and we got another RM100 reduction on top of the promo price.<\/p>\n<p>And here is my new toy&#8230;&#8230; (oh by the way, Zara insisted that I should get the pink one, but we didn&#8217;t listen to her, and chose a colour that matched our Oak-coloured kitchen).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/__dBuGx0WA7Q\/SnZ-k5JDxQI\/AAAAAAAACoU\/Ky53xIGLWIU\/s400\/photos%20030.jpg\" alt=\"KitchenAid Artisan\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/__dBuGx0WA7Q\/SnZ-lWxnKaI\/AAAAAAAACoY\/kIhMSX6DlbE\/s400\/photos%20032.jpg\" alt=\"KitchenAid Artisan\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 250px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What a beauty, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>I tried it out yesterday, and baked a butter cake using a simple recipe from Donna Hay. <\/p>\n<p>Put all ingredient into the bowl and mix it.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/__dBuGx0WA7Q\/SnZ-lkA-_JI\/AAAAAAAACoc\/zmQMJvRf_Uo\/s400\/photos%20002.jpg\" alt=\"Mixing the ingredient\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So easy, so quiet, so smooth&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/__dBuGx0WA7Q\/SnZ-kXWZ1mI\/AAAAAAAACoQ\/H0Jo3M_PnVs\/s400\/photos%20026.jpg\" alt=\"Cake batter\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 250px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Baked it for an hour +, and viola.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/__dBuGx0WA7Q\/SnZ-j5zJ3wI\/AAAAAAAACoM\/RACg-CpGpKM\/s400\/photos%20008.jpg\" alt=\"A slice of butter cake\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 300px; cursor: hand; text-align: center\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Daddy is expecting some bread to be baked soon. o.O&#8221;<br \/>\nTell me if you have a good and easy country bread recipe to share.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/mytwogirls.net\/?p=1471\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 223776;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, my RM99 cake mixer broke down on me half way creaming icing for the cupcakes I made for Zara&#8217;s birthday celebration. 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