Thank you Petra...
I think softening the butter will do the trick for the recipe I will be working on.
Not exact matches
Maybe it's the sugar,
butter, but I
think baking
softens the world.
My initial
thoughts would be that since you mixed the ingredients by hand, the
butter and sugars weren't creamed together enough in order to
soften the sugar.
When I first took them out of the oven, I
thought the tops were hard but then I remembered the instructions to brush them with
butter and they
softened up nicely.
Filling 1/2 cup (4 ounces or 115 grams) cream cheese,
softened 2 tablespoons (1 ounce or 30 grams) unsalted
butter,
softened 1/3 cup (40 grams) powdered or confectioners» sugar 1/2 cup (130 grams) creamy peanut
butter (I use Skippy but
think a more natural one would work just fine here) 1/4 teaspoon coarse or kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
I
think I'll brown 1/4 cup of the
butter, and use the 1/2 cup as
softened butter.
I
think it should resemble the consistency of
softened butter....
After I wrote my comment I
thought, wow, I probably should have clarified that by
softening it in warm water I meant submerging the jar in warm water, not adding water to the
butter!
I did everything wrong from accidentally melting the
butter when trying to
soften it in the microwave (put it in the freezer for a few minutes afterwards) to most likely curdling the sugar mixture when I added the yogurt (the low fat kind) to yanking the muffins out of the oven 5 seconds after I put them in there hoping like crazy that the
thought of rising hadn't even entered their little muffin heads yet while I dumped brown sugar over the tops.
I tried to make it without
softening the
butter, but it just didn't mix up like I
thought it should.
That's why when I try to make the recipe I have a doubt, and I
think that it's just I transcription error: «Ingredients MY MOM»S SHORTBREAD 1 cup
butter softened 250 grams 1/2 cup icing sugar 62 grams (may be you should say: 125 gr) 1/2 cup corn starch 62 grams (may be you should say: 125 gr) 1/2 teaspoon salt 2.8 grams 2 cups flour 260 grams -LRB-(may be you should say: 500 gr) MY FRIEND»S SHORTBREAD 1 cup
butter softened 250 grams 1/2 cup brown sugar 100 grams 2 1/2 cups flour 325 grams (may be you should say: 750gr)» Could be the cause of some poor results.