February Missed weeks... My New Hobart Mixer

So I've missed a few weeks I know! I honestly dont know what happened I've been busy thats all I can say.

I'm going to catch up with my weekly posts hopefully tonight but for the time being here's what me and my amazing dad produced last night for the bakery...

This is an almost 80 year old Hobart mixer, Hobart are world renound in the baking world for being the best and most reliable mixer out there. Thay're also known for also supplying spare parts no matter how old a mixer is, can you see my attraction??

When I started out I brought a little mixer similar to a Kitchen Aid to mix my dough for me as it's painfull to make more than 3 loaves of bread by hand. This little mixer has been making funny noises for a few weeks now and with the increase in demand a new mixer was in the pipelines. I found this one for a bargin due to all the work that was needed.

So here's how we did it...

We started by scratching any old stickers off and giving a thorough de-grease. I'm pretty sure this had never been done by the amount layered onto the front of the mixer.

Next we have a sand down with a wire wheel.

Then more sanding down to get ride of any marks with wet and dry sand paper.

A quick clean then we moved on to masking up any pieces that we couldn't take off and a thin layer of primer. In for dinner to let the primer dry..

Now we have the fun part, the first layer of paint. What do you think of the colour?

Second Layer..

Our third and final layer, just fixing the ID plate back on.

And that's that. Easier and quicker than I thought and it looks almost brand new.

Monday: Colours... Red hmmm

Well I didn't keep up last week but I'm back at work now, thats a mix of babysitting my crazy and lovely nieces, data inputting for Mum and Dad and my favorite... baking!

As soon as I heard todays word I knew exactly what Photo I was going to use... Red Velvet Cupcakes of course!

These aren't my personal favorite but they are a favorite of my best friend and her partner so I've perfected the recipe over the last few years. Made using a mix of white wine vinegar and bicarbonate of soda this is where the 'red' colour originated from however a bit of modern food colouring brings them to life. And you can't have these without cool vanilla cream cheese to top.

You can't deny the colour is striking!