most recipe requires you to beat the sugar into the butter until it turns color or fluffy or incorporated into every smear of the butter but it always done with a electric beater?
i don't have one and i don't plan to buy one yet. but can't i juse use my hands and whip it in? will that effect the texture? or the cooking time of the cookies?
2006-12-12 00:46:49 · 12 answers · asked by ijenjen3 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
i use a flat wooden paddle to mix my cookie dough. Just make sure the butter is very soft and mushy so it can be mixed well with the sugar. As you add the flour it will get stiffer and sometimes is difficult to incorporate. You will build up the muscles eventualy
2006-12-12 01:50:01 · answer #1 · answered by cuno's mom 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I rarely use my electric beaters, for cookies I tend to use a fork. It takes a little longer to cream the butter and sugar together... I use it as therapy - all my frustrations go into beating the tar out of the mixture. It makes perfectly yummy cookies all the time!
2006-12-12 08:57:46 · answer #2 · answered by gravityworks2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have made cookies and cakes without a mixer many times and they have turned out fine. Use a fork or a whisk to cream the butter, sugar and other wet ingredients, and a spoon to mix the rest in. Everything will turn out alright. I hope that I have been some help to you.
2006-12-12 10:52:16 · answer #3 · answered by carmen d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never used a beater for cookies. You can just use your hands or a fork to beat some air into it. Just start with soft butter.
2006-12-12 08:58:53 · answer #4 · answered by melouofs 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sugar and butter mixing is the easy part when doing everything by hand. Make sure you let your butter sit out LONG TIME to get soft. The hard part comes when you have to mix in the flour.
2006-12-12 09:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by Gyasi M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have often used a wire whisk. It takes a little more time and you really have to make sure that you get it mixed up well, if you do this the texture of the cookie will turn out the same.
2006-12-12 08:54:28 · answer #6 · answered by celhabti 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I rarely use an electric mixer when I make my cookies -- I have one, I am just too lazy to get it out and wash it later. I make sure my butter is soft enough, and mix it really well with a wood spoon (it is nice and flat, like a paddle). I never have left over cookies.
2006-12-12 08:49:40 · answer #7 · answered by suzykew70 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If u r not planning to buy one, then don't!
A table spoon works too :)
Though you need to put a lot of strength as the mixture has to be fluffy.
Good luck
2006-12-12 08:53:49 · answer #8 · answered by star 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
won't effect the cooking time, use a fork or an egg beater.
2006-12-12 08:50:35 · answer #9 · answered by bravodog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use softened butter and add a little elbow grease and you'll be fine
2006-12-12 09:12:46 · answer #10 · answered by sassy n 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋