augustmum,
Yes, I baked them as per suggested here in this thread. But I think if you put a layer of oil at the baking tray and bake it, it will have a better effect.
I "heard" you all are discussing about mixer ar?? I used to own a Kenwood small hand held mixer, but it's not heavy duty and after sometimes, there are black dust coming out from the machine, so I change to Krup, it's abt $100+ and it's consider a heavy duty mixer, except it cannot hold big amount, but can tahan heavy usage. I like this mixer, cos it really mix up my ingredients so well. Now, I have both Krup and kenwood chef for big amount of ingredients.
Btw, Krups can be found in BEST, COurts and Harvey NOrman I think.