Quick ways to soften butter up for baking
It often happens that while you prepare your favorite cake and when the time comes to add butter, you are left with a hard frozen lump, and then you go haywire thinking about how to melt butter quickly so that your cake batter is not kept stored for a long time. Here are some easy buttery tips that allow you to melt butter in a second's time. The next time you forget to melt butter, don't forget that help is on your fingers.
1. Quickly grate the frozen butter bar with the help of a grater. Now keep the grated butter in room temperature. The grated butter bar will melt in no time and you are left with creamy smooth butter.
2. Often you need a particular amount of butter for cooking, then cut out the portion according to quantity specified that you need for cooking and rest it at room temperature. Melting a small amount of butter is easier than melting the whole butter bar.
3. Use the method of double melting. It is also used to melt chocolates. In this method, you need to have a large sized saucepan of water, in which you can fit a bowl of frozen butter. Boil the water and then place the bowl of butter in the boiling pan. The butter will melt from the steam released of the boiling water and within seconds the frozen bar will disappear to give way to soft fluffy and creamy butter.
4. Pound the butter using a rolling pin. Place it in a ziplock bag or wax paper and pound it with your whole energy, till the butter flattens. Rest it sometime at room temperature and it will soften up.
5. You can bring your blender or mixer to work while softening butter. Place the butter in a bowl and use the blender to soften it.
6. Microwave the frozen butter. For this, place the frozen butter chunk in a microwave safe bowl. Place it in the microwave oven. Set the power level to maximum and microwave on high heat for just ten seconds. Your frozen butter will now appear in creamy form and in case you want to have it in liquid form, then microwave the frozen one for a little long as say twenty seconds.
7. Cut the butter into small bite-sized chunks and spread it on a plate. Now, keep it at room temperature. The butter will melt. You can also melt butter by cutting bite-sized chunks and melt it using the double-melting method.
8. Another easy method would be to use your butter curler if you have one. Heat the butter curler by placing it in warm water. Then run it over the butter bar. It will produce creamy curls.
