Does the quality of butter used affect the taste of cookies and other baked goods? I used to think all butter?

Question

was the same, so I used the generic supermarket unsalted brand. But my cookies came out flat tasting. Could it be the butter?

Answer 1

I prefer using salted sweeet butter when baking cookies - so many cookie recipes call for sugar and brown sugar and other sweet things (chocolate chips, etc.), the salted butter helps cut the sweetness. Sweet is good, LOL, but too sweet is kinda sickening IMO.

Answer 2

It absolutely can be the butter, although I haven't used regular butter in 15 years. I've used 100% vegetable Margarine from Imperial. I think it has a great taste, plus it's 100% cholesterol free where butter isn't. Plus, butter tends to be too heavy especially when baking cookies. My advice it to beta test the Imperial margarine against the name brand butter's like Hotel bar and see what cookie tastes better to you. Let me know how it turns out.

Answer 3

YES, some cookies call for unsalted butter, others call for real butter, so on and so forth...

If you want your cookies to turn out your going to have to ues the right kinds of butter

Answer 4

I always use sweet butter when baking .... salt or no salt in the recipe.
If you want to add some pizzazz to your cookies try a spice like cinnamon or cardimon ... that should perk them up!

And also putting chocolate chips in them is always a good thing!
Nuts too ... unless U R allergic.

Answer 5

butter is butter. use unsalted for baking if recipe calls for salt to be added. if not, use salted butter. use margarine when stated in the recipe.