piglet

*HOW* can I have busted my Kitchen-Aid!? It's only 20 years old!!! My mother's is more like 50, and it's still going strong (I think; she doesn't bake anymore).

*whimper*

Okay, so how long is it likely to limp along (it's making a terrible clicking noise, and shimmying at the back end), will it lose a sprocket and slay me, and with what should I replace it? Do I need a Hobart?

From butter sugar flour eggs, by Gale Gand, dessert goddess.

1/2 lb. butter (2 sticks), 2/3 cup sugar, 1/4 vanilla bean scrapings, 1/4 tsp. salt, 260 g. flour. Jam of your preference. Cream butter, sugar; vanilla, salt. Mix in flour, slowly. Roll dough into golf balls, place 2" apart. Make well, insert jam. Bake at 350deg.F for 25-30 minutes.

Let cool. Eat one. Die of joy.

I have just served my son a peanut butter & jelly sandwich cut into the shape of a biohazardradiation hazard symbol. Truth in advertising? Mwahaha!