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Using the back of a fork (choose one that is leggy with long tines), start beating the butter and sugar together, in the same motion you'd use to whisk your scrambled eggs. This is the tool you'll use to faux-cream. If your butter isn't perfectly soft, you can get in there with your two hands - working the sugar into the butter will help it soften and combine. You can start with a wooden spoon, and mash the ingredients against one another. This will set you up for success when you move on to step three. To get the process started off on the right foot, make like you'd mix anything else together. Step two: Combine the butter and sugar with a wooden spoon. Soft butter is your BFF when creaming by hand. Last-minute butter softeners, we direct you to our community's wonderful solutions. If it's holing up in the freezer, move it to the fridge two days beforehand, and then follow the fridge protocol. If it's in the fridge, take it out about two hours before you plan on using it, depending on how warm your resident counter is. Friends, you must remember to take your butter out of the fridge or the freezer. This, of course, is a hands-off process, but if you want the best results, it does require a spry mind, or at least a functioning Google calendar. Which sounds like an occasion worth celebrating with another cookie. But you're going to let appliances steal none of the glory, and you'll be rewarded well: with cookies, quick breads, cakes - hat you've made with your own two hands. Your arms are going to be a little more tired. Dessert's likely going to take you a little bit longer. (And, okay, sometimes you just don't have a mixer nearby - thanks, Airbnb kitchen.)Īfter you read this post, you'll be able to cream butter and sugar without anything but a bowl, a wooden spoon, and a fork. When we do, we're going to have to know how to live without the mixers and the beaters of the world. To do our non-appliance-wielding grandmothers proud. Sometimes we want to be romantic about cooking, to do things with our own two hands. Ask the 5-minute lunches to take a walk, just for a minute. Push the no-bake desserts out of your mind. Photos by James Ransomįorget, for a moment, the 20-minute meals. Today: How to cream butter and sugar the old-fashioned way.

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