How to Soften Butter Quickly

Want to bake and have no time to wait for your butter to soften? Here's how to do it in under a minute!

I like to occasionally bake and it’s always better to have your ingredients at room temp. I very often decide to bake at the last minute and a hard stick of butter will not cream right so here is my quick tip on how to soften butter.

Want to bake and have no time to wait for your butter to soften? Here's how to do it in under a minute!

This really is so simple and will have you baking in under a minute. Just put your sticks of butter in a microwave safe bowl. Put them in the microwave and set it for 15 seconds. Don’t pay attention to my dirty old microwave just look at the butter.

Quick Tip Tuesday - Miss information - Butter!

Check it by pressing your finger into it. If you have more than 1 or 2 sticks you may need to put it back in. Only set it at 5 second intervals, you don’t want melted butter. You can see below after 15 seconds my butter is perfect for baking!

Quick Tip Tuesday - Miss Information - How to Soften butter in under 15 seconds!

 

 

2 Responses

  1. For anyone like me, without a microwave, you can grate it on a box grater and it's ready to use in the same amount of time! I hold It using the paper so there's little extra mess and i don't grate my fingers at the end :)
    1. Kelley Wilson says:
      I have seen that, I'm just too lazy to do that LOL, thanks for the additional tip!

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