The Do-It-All Kitchen Appliance That Makes Entertaining A Breeze

Your Essential Kitchen All-Rounder

As well as looking très chic, the KitchenAid Blossom Stand Mixer is a one-stop cooking station that can streamline time in your kitchen and maximise your mingling. With a host of nifty attachments, including a shave ice attachment and an ice-cream maker, you can quickly create everything from drinks – including cocktails – to desserts. “The KitchenAid mixer is an iconic presence in kitchens all over the world,” says Tracey Ellis, The Good Guys Buyer – Portable Appliances. “It’s not only great for making sweets – it can be used to help create top-quality savoury meals, pastries, ice cream and drinks as well.”

Savour Those Savouries

So what about savoury dishes? From whizzing through your weekday classics – hello lasagne, meatballs and shepherd's pie – to batch cooking for the masses, your stand mixer really does take the heat off you. With 10 different speeds and a host of KitchenAid attachments, including a Pasta Roller, a Food Grinder (great for grinding meat) and a Slicer & Shredder that makes chopping veggies a thing of the past, the Blossom Design Series Stand Mixer will have dinner on the table in a jiffy. All you have to do is dig in!

Moroccan Beef Kebabs

Bursting with Moroccan flavour and served with a red onion pickle and yoghurt sauce, these juicy beef kebabs are made for summer lunches and stress-free festive eats.

Serves: 4
Prep & Cook Time: 35-40 mins

Ingredients:

FOR KEBABS

• 1/2 red onion
• 500g ground beef
• 3 tsp ras el hanout spice mix
• 1 egg
• 1/3 cup fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped
• Pinch of salt and pepper
• Wooden skewers, pre-soaked in water
• Olive oil, for cooking

FOR RED ONION PICKLE

• 1/2 cup (125ml) water
• 1/4 (60ml) cup apple cider vinegar
• 1 1/2 tbsp caster sugar
• 1 red onion, thinly sliced

FOR YOGHURT SAUCE

• 1/2 cup (130g) plain Greek yoghurt
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• Pinch of ras el hanout spice mix

FOR SIDE SALAD

• 200g mixed small tomatoes, sliced in half
• 1/2 Lebanese cucumber, sliced
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves, roughly chopped
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• Pinch of salt

TO SERVE

• Extra coriander leaves, roughly chopped
• Lemon wedges
• Lebanese flat bread

Method:

1. To prepare the onion pickle, combine the water, vinegar and sugar in a small saucepan. Stir over medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Pour the hot liquid over the onion slices and set aside to pickle for 5-10 mins.
2. Drain and set side until serving.
3. To make the kebabs, add the red onion to your KitchenAid food processor and blitz until finely chopped.
4. Add the beef, spice mix, egg, coriander leaves, salt and pepper. Blitz until the mixture is well combined.
5. Use clean hands to shape the mixture into equal portions and thread onto pre-soaked wooden skewers.
6. Preheat BBQ or stove top grill to medium-high heat.
7. Lightly brush kebabs with olive oil and place on the grill. Cook until dark golden grill lines appear then rotate and cook through. Remove from the grill.
8. To prepare the yoghurt sauce, add the yoghurt and olive oil to a small bowl, stirring well to combine. Sprinkle over the spice mix. Set aside.
9. To prepare the side salad, combine the tomatoes, cucumber, coriander, lemon juice, oil and salt in a serving bowl. Toss well to coat. Set aside.
10. Place the kebabs on a platter, topped with pickle and a sprinkle of coriander leaves. Serve with yoghurt sauce, Lebanese bread and lemon wedges on the side.

Delectable Desserts

You already know your KitchenAid stand mixer is great for creating cakes – but what about other sweet treats? “With handy accessories, including a dough hook and a pastry beater, and optional attachments like the ice cream maker attachment, your mixer can cater to the sweetest tooth in the house – dishing up everything from gingerbread and petit fours to gelato and pavlova,” says Tracey Ellis, The Good Guys Buyer – Portable Appliances.

Festive Pavlova With Berry Compote

Juicy seasonal berries and edible flowers atop a mountain of fluffy sweet cream … our festive pavlova is what Christmas dessert dreams are made of!

Serves: 6-8
Prep time: 2 hrs, plus cooling time

Ingredients:

FOR PAVLOVA

• 6 egg whites
• 1 1/2 cups caster sugar
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 1 tsp white vinegar

FOR BERRY COMPOTE

• 500g frozen mixed berries
• 1/2 cup caster sugar
• 300ml thickened cream
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 250g fresh strawberries, sliced in half
• 125g fresh raspberries
• 200g fresh cherries
• Mint leaves
• Edible flowers

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 120°C and line a large, flat baking tray with baking paper.
2. Attach the whisk attachment to a KitchenAid mixer, whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form.
3. Gradually add 1 1/2 cups of the caster sugar while the stand mixer is running on mid speed. Whisk for 6-8 mins until the sugar has completely dissolved.
4. Turn the stand mixer down to a very low speed and add in the cornflour and vinegar until just combined.
5. Using a spatula, scoop out the mixture onto the lined tray. Very gently scoop up the sides to form a round circle with a flat top.
6. Place in the oven to bake for 1 1/2 hrs then turn off the oven and leave the door slightly ajar without opening it. It’s best to leave the pavlova overnight to cool down slowly.
7. To make the berry compote, add the frozen berries and caster sugar to a medium-sized saucepan. Simmer over medium to low heat, with lid ajar, for 15 mins or until the mixture has thickened. Remove from heat and set aside to cool. Once cooled, place in the fridge until ready to serve. This can be made ahead of time.
8. When you’re ready to serve, add the cream, vanilla essence and icing sugar to a KitchenAid stand mixer with the whisk attached. Whip the cream until soft peaks form.
9. Add 3 tbsp of the berry compote to the whipped cream and fold through.
10. Spoon the cream mixture over the top of the pavlova, followed with a few spoonfuls of the berry compote. Finish off with piling up the fresh berries and cherries over the top. Garnish with fresh mint leaves and edible flowers.

Bottoms Up!

So your KitchenAid stand mixer has the menu covered – but what about the drinks? Enter stage left, the Shave Ice attachment – the kitchen equivalent to having your very own barista-slash-barman on call. Use it to create the coolest summer treat! Hailing from Hawaii, shave ice is currently the hottest thing in cold sweets and involves shaving ice (duh) before flavouring it with syrups and other ingredients. Or, if you love an iced coffee, you’ll be delighted to know that the Shave Ice attachment is also perfect for busting out your favourite cold brew, as well as ice-cold cocktails and mocktails galore.

Too Pretty To Hide Away

Keen to define your kitchen decor with a global style icon? The super stylish range of KitchenAid stand mixers has been going strong for over a century! Choose from poetic shades such as the Artisan Stand Mixer in Almond Cream or Dried Rose. And with its striking, hammered copper bowl and sage green tint, the newly minted Blossom Design Series Stand Mixer is sure to be the centrepiece of any busy kitchen. 

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