Butter Soft than Solid, I’d say

How many ways to soften butter can you think of? Off the top of my head, I can name the lazy cold-butter-on-really-hot-toast style, the precarious microwave method (unless done right), and well… that’s the extent of my experience from preparing butter on toast for breakfast. But there’s plenty more uses for melting butter other than breakfast (as I just learned), in particular for baking cakes and cookies:

If it’s not soft enough, the butter won’t cream well with the sugar (frequently the first step of baking recipes); it simply won’t get to the right light and fluffy consistency. And that could result in dense cake layers that fall flat. On the other hand, if your butter is too soft, your cookies will spread out all over your pan.

These butter-ficionados made it their mission to find out which softening methods work best and how long do they take. Oh, and by ‘softened’ they mean that the butter “easily bends without breaking and gives slightly when pressed.” 

Here are the results for your educational enjoyment. Follow the The Kitchn for more!

Photo: Pixabay


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