How do you know whether to use salted or unsalted butter in cookie recipes calling for butter?

Answer 1

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Yes you can, it doesn't make a difference in taste but they say unsalted because there might already but a lot of salt in your cooking already!

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This first answer is incorrect. It does make a difference in taste, but you can use salted butter in place of unsalted.

Answer 2

Whether or not salted or unsalted butter should be used on baking is a matter of taste, and also depends on the type of recipe. Some foods are very delicate in flavour and salt is much more noticeable in these.

Keep in mind that, if you are adding baking powder or baking soda, when these react to give the rising effect, they also form a salt. This is not the same salt as standard cooking or table salt, but it does add a little of a salty flavour.

Do the people who are eating the baking eat a lot of salty foods? If so, they may not notice the presence of salt, or may notice its absence, but some who use salt a lot in savoury food, may be unused to salt in sweet food, and may notice it if it is there.

Answer 3

I haven't tried it, but I think I would cut the amount of salt in half. There wouldn't be as much salt in the butter as the recipe would call for. Depending on the amount of butter in the recipe you would add or subtract the amount of salt. I'm guessing, but I would be surprised if there was more than a quarter teaspoon of salt in a pound of butter.

Answer 4

There is a good deal of pedantry about the use of salted/unsalted butter in baking. Recipes will specify unsalted butter while also requiring the addition of a pinch of salt - this makes little sense. We add salt to enhance flavour and the amount of salt included in butter is minimal anyway.

In fifty years of baking I've paid little heed to these restrictions using simply what is readily available with no detrimental effect on flavour, lightness, keeping qualities or any other considerations.

In some few situations you may want to consider using unsalted butter - in making a butter frosting; in making brandy butter or pashka where butter is a main ingredient. But if you normally include salt in your diet or add it to your savoury cooking I doubt you would notice any difference in the end result.

Answer 5

You can use which ever you like it really doesn't matter. If you are a person with high blood pressure I would use unsalted or if the recepie call for salt I would use salted butter.

Answer 6

Use unsalted so that no extra salt flavor enters your cookies. This is very important, so good question.

Answer 7

yes, but if extra salt is added in the recipe you may want not to add it.

Answer 8

I would not use salted butter because it would make the cookie dough bitter and not taste sweet when u tried the cookies

Answer 9

any