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Why is melted butter good for baked cookies?

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Baking is a chemical process more than anything. Put in chemical terms, the butter has to be in a liquid state to interact with the dry ingredients correctly. Think of it like the difference between what ice does to a drink, as apposed to what water does to a drink.

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