My New Toy

This year for Christmas my family combined forces and upgraded my mixer to the largest capacity mixer KitchenAid makes. My 25 yr. old workhorse has performed well and without a single repair, but 16 Christmas stockings later, growth in numbers in this family is inevitable. My daughter is helping out here in 1987 with my first KitchenAid, and now she is married and is a labor and delivery nurse at Centennial Women's Hospital. My new toy from Williams-Sonoma just fits underneath my cabinet in the same spot as the old one with a mere 1/16" to spare. Whew. Glad not to have to do a tear out to accommodate the titan. Husband would not have been happy. But, alas, not only does it fit, I have learned to operate it and have officially christened it with a new copper cookie cutter also from Williams-Sonoma. Happy Winter Cookies! A 3-times recipe hardly even filled half of the 7-qt. bowl. I am on my way to even larger batches. Awesome. Thank you, dear family!