Our top pick is the Breville Hand Mix Scraper Hand Mixer. It has nine speed settings that can power through every dough and digital screen with a timer. If you're a more occasional baker ...

You don't need much more than the standard beaters for a hand mixer. We don’t mind an added whisk attachment, but dough hooks and more go unused in our kitchen. If making something that calls ...

Ciabatta dough is extremely wet, so difficult to make by hand, but if you have a freestanding mixer it's simple. Don't be tempted to add more flour or rush the prove as it will spoil the the ...

Put the flour, sugar, yeast, salt, milk and five eggs into a free-standing food mixer and mix, for about five minutes, to a smooth dough. If mixing by hand, this will take about eight minutes.