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Close zoom modal. Product Zoom. Low-fat buttes are suspicious, at best. You have a choice when you go to the grocery: salted or unsalted butter.
Most importantly: unsalted butter ensures that you can control the amount of salt you add to your cakes, cookies and Fig and Almond Breakfast Cake. Different companies add different amounts of salt to their butter.
How are we to know how salty our butter is, and how we should adjust the salt in the recipe? Removing the salt from the butter equation puts us in control of salting. Control is very important when it comes to flavor. When a recipe calls for unsalted butter, that means that the salt levels in the recipe account for no other salt source.
If all you have salted butter, try cutting the instructed salt amount in half. Also, salt is a preservative. Salted butter has a longer shelf life than unsalted butter. That means that unsalted butter is typically fresher. Salt can mask flavors!
We may not be able to taste or smell if our butter is off because clever clever salt can mask funky taste and odors. Does butter really go bad? Heck yes it does! Unsalted butter lasts about 1 month in the refrigerator. If you think your butter might be off, give it a good sniff. For the frosting, I tested it as written with both unsalted and salted butter. It did not call for any added salt. There was, however, a noticeable taste difference between variations. For the most accurate assessment, I set up a blind tasting for the food department and other editors from the institute.
Most tasters preferred the recipe as written using unsalted butter. But here's the good news: If you're baking a recipe that calls for unsalted butter or doesn't specify a butter and you only have salted on hand, you can eliminate the added salt and still have a fabulous treat on your hands!
Remember, the amount of salt flavor the salted butter will add depends on the product you buy. Look at the sodium variation between these popular brands:.
What we really discovered, however, is that the salted vs. For recipes that don't specify which to use, go with the one that will most suit your palet.
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