"cream" baking ingredients?

Question

What does it mean to "cream butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth?"

Answer 1

Definition from Better Home & Garden cookbook-
Cream- To beat at high speed until fully incorporated, light and fluffy, (individual sugar crystal still detecable, not dissolved)
Good luck!

Answer 2

This is a good way to mix butter and sugar when the butter is right out of the fridge. Combine the ingredients in a bowl, and use an electric mixer at low speed. At first, it will seem like not much is happening, and you might have to chase the butter around with the beater, but pretty soon the butter will soften up and the sugar will mix with it. Then you can increase the speed.

If you aren't using an electric mixer, you cream the butter and sugar by first mashing the cold butter with the back of a spoon or fork to soften it. Then add the sugar and blend.

Answer 3

creaming is mixing sugar and butter together, until it gets a creamy texture. The mixture will become a few shades whiter from tiny bubbles being incorporated. Sugar granules are cube-shaped. When they're whipped into butter, they create little tiny bubbles, that aerates the butter, and aids how the finish product will turn out.

Answer 4

Cranberry
White Chocolate Chunk
Macadamia Cookies
• 1 cup soft baking butter (Do not melt)
• 1 cup packed brown sugar
• 1 cup white sugar
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons brandy (or rum or vanilla)
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 2 cups chopped white chocolate
(I used Ghiradelli flat bars and cut them – you can used chips; I just prefer chunks)
• 2 cups dried cranberries
• 6 oz. macadamia nut pieces
DIRECTIONS:
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Place parchment paper on Baking Stone. (You may
have to grease the pan if you use a regular cookie sheet)
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in the egg
and brandy. Combine the flour and baking soda; stir into the sugar mixture. Mix in the white
chocolate chunks, cranberries, and macadamia nuts. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto prepared cookie
sheets. *I use a cookie scoop.
3. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. For best results, take them out while they are still
doughy. Allow cookies to cool for 1 minute on the stone before transferring to wire racks to cool
completely.
*Makes 4-5 dozen.

Answer 5

You basically answered this yourself...

Cream, to - to blend together, as sugar and butter (or shortening), until mixtures takes on a smooth, creamy texture.
http://www.cooksrecipes.com/cooking-dictionary/C-search-results.html

Answer 6

allow butter to come to room temperature, then combine, butter white sugar and brown sugar until stiff but creamy Good luck, this is prevent the butter from being clumpy

Answer 7

Generally, it means using a spoon to "smush" them together...Pushing the sugars into the butter until it's all incorporated, as opposed to beating it, which would add in air.

Answer 8

it means you use a mixer and blend the butter and sugar until it is a creamy consistency. make sure your butter is soft before doing this it will blend easier.

Answer 9

You you put all those ingridients together. Use a mixer and blend all the ingridients until its has cream like consistency...Like until it looks smooth and softened. (kind of what actual cream looks like)

Answer 10

Creaming is to incorporate all your wet ingredients and then add them to your dry ingredients.