If you rely on your stand mixer often in the kitchen, it's important to ensure the paddle attachment reaches the correct ...

Mixing paddle: We looked at how well it creamed butter and sugar, incorporated eggs and distributed chips and fruit in a white chocolate chip and dried apricot cookie dough.

The stand mixer comes fully equipped with a stainless steel mixing bowl, a mixing paddle, a whisk, a dough hook, and a removable splash guard.

The Artisan Series 5-Quart mixer comes with a paddle, dough hook, whisk, and pouring shield. KitchenAid offers around three dozen extra attachments, and we highly recommend a few of them.

If you have a KitchenAid 4.5-quart tilt-head mixer, you’ll want this guy. For KitchenAid 5-quart bowl lift mixers, choose this one . And for KitchenAid 6, 7, or 8-quart bowls, this is your ...

Those paddles function like the flat beater that comes standard with a KitchenAid stand mixer, so you wouldn’t want to make cookies or brownies without purchasing the paddles.