Here are 4 ways to soften butter fast so youll always be ready to start baking.
Soft butter mixes much easier with flour and sugar in batters orcookie doughthan hard, cold butter.
Here are butter softening methods for both salted and unsalted butter.
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No part of it should be melted.
Softened butter is not the same asmelted butterand the two cannot be used interchangeably.
The timing will vary depending on the room temperature and how cold the butter is.
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This is easily our favorite method for how to soften butter for baking cookies because it guarantees consistency.
Here’s how to soften frozen butter or refrigerated butter without melting it.
Once melted, the butter reacts differently with the dough and will give your cookies a different consistency.
Experiment with adding your own mix-ins.
Those few extra steps of prep work will pay off when you bite into that perfectly bakedchocolate chip cookie.
