10 easy recipes to make with a stand mixer

Stand mixers can help you with more than just light cake batters and fluffy frosting. We've gathered some of the best stand mixer recipes here, from baking brownies, making pasta from scratch or quick salad.

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With the 3-piece pasta set and the gourmet pasta press accessories, you could be whipping up strands of spaghetti and fettuccine or shapes like rigatoni and macaroni. It’s still a quick and easy dinner but will taste and look restaurant quality.

Fresh pasta

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Salsas

We love crowdpleasers like this loaded Mexican dip! Transform your stand mixer into a full-blown food processor so you can chop and dice your salsas to perfection for guests.

Ice-cream

Bookmark this for summer! The KitchenAid ice cream bowl attachment produces up to 1.9 litres of soft-consistency ice-cream and other frozen desserts. You can actually churn and serve ice-creams like this within half an hour instead of having to leave them in the freezer for hours to firm up.

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Burgers

If you like to know what’s in your food, why not buy meat cuts from the butcher yourself and grind into your own minced meat? We love getting pork belly to make sausage roll filling and brisket to grind down into burger patties like these.

Brownies

This one is perfect for people who a) make a mess when sifting flour and b) always incorporate dry and wet ingredients too quickly when mixing, resulting in a lumpy mess. Sift and scale attachments sift to airy perfection and incorporate ingredients into the mixing bowl at impeccably-timed intervals. Oh hi there, smooth and fudgy brownies.

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Ravioli

Forget rolling, filling and cutting fresh ravioli – all you need are two ingredients and a ravioli roller attachment for your stand mixer.

Apple cakes

Not only can you make the batter for this cake in your stand mixer, but you can slice the apple into beautiful slivers using the vegetable sheet cutter attachment, too. Of course, you can also use it to cut your favourite veg into wafer-thin sheets for moussakas, lasagnes or bakes.

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Shredded salads

Slice radish and zucchini to wafer-thin precision and shred wombok cabbage in a jiffy, resulting in salads that are effortless, stunning and full of interesting textures and flavours.

Zoodles (and all their spiralised friends)

Save yourself money by spiralising your own bought veg without having to fork out for a separate gadget with this clever stand mixer accessory. This is perfect for those wanting to enjoy a tasty low-carb dinner every once in a while.

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Cereal

If you want something a bit different to regular granola, use a grain mill attachment to grind down oats into a fine crumb. It’s incredible spooned over yoghurt or added to smoothies.You can also grind other grains like wheat, corn and rice, too.

Originally published as 10 easy recipes to make with a stand mixer