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Home » recipes » Kitchen Tip: How to Soften Butter Perfectly without Melting It!

Kitchen Tip: How to Soften Butter Perfectly without Melting It!

Posted by Marybeth | Read 8 Comments

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baby dealsThe butter I use for cooking and baking is precious. I buy it when it’s on sale and store it in the freezer until I need to use it. This works exceptionally well to keep butter from spoiling, but I could never soften frozen butter in the microwave without melting it!

Last night, I was making peach cobbler while my homemade pizza rolls were in the oven. The peach cobbler recipe called for softened butter, and I still had my rolling pin and pastry mat out from working with the pizza roll dough. Inspiration struck!

How to soften frozen or cold butter without melting it:

  1. Cut two pieces of parchment or wax paper. A full stick of butter will need 2 squares that are about 12″ by 12″. Half sticks need 6″ x 6″ squares.
  2. Place your unwrapped frozen or refrigerated butter between the two cut sheets of paper.
  3. If it’s frozen, give it a few good whacks with a rolling pin. Then, both cold or frozen butter can be rolled with a rolling pin. it takes less than a minute to roll/smash it down to about 1/2″ thick.
  4. Done! Peel off the paper and work with the softened butter!

This is a really quick and tidy process, since the mess is completely contained within the paper. Cleanup only requires throwing the parchment paper in the garbage can!

I hope this makes your life a little bit easier!

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About Marybeth

I'm Marybeth - Mom of 2, wife to 1, pet mom to 3. I love finding fun activities to do with my kids, going on adventures, watching movies and baking delicious treats! I used to climb the corporate ladder, now I spend my days caring for my family and spoiling my handicapped dog.

Comments

  1. blueviolet says

    2011-09-28 at 8:07 am

    That’s brilliant, thank you! I also have never frozen butter, so I’m glad to know I can!

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  2. Kathleen says

    2011-09-28 at 8:10 am

    lol I always throw mine in the microwave for a few seconds, so this is very good information to have!

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  3. April Decheine says

    2011-09-28 at 9:27 am

    Yea I always do the microwave thing to and it makes a huge mess.

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  4. Megan says

    2011-09-28 at 9:49 am

    How easy! All this time, I’ve been doing it so wrong

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  5. Nichol says

    2011-09-28 at 9:51 am

    Woohoo thank you! I do defrost on the micro which seems to work but it still melts a bit

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  6. Sam says

    2011-09-28 at 11:43 am

    Brilliant! I never would have thought of that.

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  7. Crystal & Co says

    2011-09-28 at 9:24 pm

    Love this. Excellent tip. I melt butter all the time too.

    I would love for you to link up and share this on my mommy solution meme.

    http://www.crystalandcomp.com/2011/09/the-mommy-club-share-your-resources-and-solutions-11/

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  8. 'Becca says

    2011-09-29 at 12:00 pm

    That’s so clever! I bet the butter would be even better contained by a bag than 2 sheets. I save the liner bags from cereal and crackers to use for freezing foods. I bet if I rolled butter in one, I’d be able to then tear it down the seam and flop the butter out! I’ll have to try it….

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