With a stand mixer or a hand held mixer, mix butter and sugar until color is light and mixture is fluffly. Do not over mix!!! Butter and sugar is overmixed when the butter starts to separate.
No all recipes require that you cream the butter and sugar together. Just be sure to mix the ingredients thoroughly before dropping batter onto baking sheet (or whatever you are using). Creaming butter is required for some recipes, but personally, I never do it! ;)
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When recipe instructions say to "cream" butter and sugar, it means to mix the butter and sugar together with an electric beater until they are well combined. You should no longer be able to see any sugar crystals separate from the butter, and the butter should lighten in color. For delicate cookies or cakes, the butter and sugar should be beaten until you can rub a bit between your thumb and forefinger without feeling any grains of sugar.
Beat or mix together in a bowl until well blended without clumps. Butter needs to be room temperature. Since mine is refrigerated I cream on the low setting on the stove to warm the butter
To make an old fashioned sour cream pound cake, you will need butter, sugar, eggs, sour cream, flour, baking soda, and vanilla extract. Cream the butter and sugar, then add eggs one at a time. Mix in sour cream and vanilla. Gradually add flour and baking soda. Bake in a greased pan at 325F for about an hour.
Unless one is baking a sweet potato (also called yams in the U.S.) one does not use sugar in baking potatoes. Because potatoes usually are baked whole and unpeeled, butter, salt and often sour cream are added after baking.
When you put the butter and sugar in the mixing bowl and put the mixer on high, or cream, and mix the two items together till they are smooth, or creamed.
Best to use softened butter (room temperature). That will be plenty soft enough. If you use melted butter (example for cookies, etc.) your batter will spread too much in the initial cooking and baked cookies will be paper thin and hard as a rock!Melted butter is also hot, and can curdle milk if mixed. Not good.
No, just cream and salt.
Ya, cream's a solution of milk, sugar, butter.
Well, butter and sugar are like the odd couple of baking - they need to get cozy to trap air and create a light texture. Creaming them together aerates the mixture, helping your baked goods rise and giving them a soft, tender crumb. So, whip it good until it's fluffy and you'll be on your way to baking greatness.
the definition of creaming in baking is mixing together butter, margarine, or someohter solid fat with sugar until they are well mized making a soft consistency