What can I do if I forgot to cream the butter and sugar in my cookie recipe?
I got distracted and forgot to cream the butter and sugar before making sugar cookies. I baked half and they were dry, tasted like flour and smelled like flour (although rolled in sugar and cinnamon). I still have half of the batch left in the fridge. What can I do to make it taste better? I'm sure it was from not creaming first.
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meh; I have used the “reverse” mixing method for sugar cookies; which is essentially what you did; just need to add more butter and/or cream cheese to pull together now.
The only thing you can't recover from is if you over-mix the flour; if your cookies are glue'y then you over-mixed and you need to throw away.
I find that the details are much more important in sugar cookies; type of flour, type of sugar, butter, ratio; etc...
Letting the dough sit over night will allow autolyseae to happen; as a added bonus.
My recipe:
2 1/2 cups flour; sifted
3/4 cup supppppeeeerrr, superfine sugar (usaully blended in ninja)
1/4 teaspoon salt
16 tablespoons (2 sticks) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2? pieces & softened
2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Blend dry ingredients; add butter cubes until desired consistencey; cream cheese to pull dough together.
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There's nothing you can do at this point. Discard it and start over, it's just a bit of butter, sugar and flour at the end of the day.How do you fix butter and sugar without creaming?
The Key To Creaming ButterYour butter needs to be \u201croom temperature\u201d, or around 65\xbaF. If it is too cold, it won't blend with the sugar evenly and will be almost impossible to beat it into a smooth consistency; if it is too hot, the butter won't be able to hold the air pockets that you are trying to beat into it.Do I have to cream the butter for cookies?
Creaming evenly disperses the sugar throughout the batter, completely dissolving it into the butter. You also increase volume by mixing thoroughly and incorporating more air into your batter. The result? Lighter textured cookies and cakes.Can you manually cream butter and sugar?
If you find yourself without a mixer you can cream butter and sugar by hand. It's a great arm workout! First, it helps to cut the butter into thin pieces and mixing them with the sugar before you start creaming them together. Using a fork, press the tines into the butter and sugar to fully combine them.How to Cream Butter and Sugar
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There's nothing you can do at this point. Discard it and start over, it's just a bit of butter, sugar and flour at the end of the day.
As for it tasting of flour I'm not certain it's your method at fault, I'd say you either forgot the sugar or didn't add enough, or your flour is old. I'd suggest you start again with fresh ingredients.
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