5. Room-temperature Ingredients:
Butter: Make sure your butter is at room temperature, otherwise it won’t cream properly with the sugar. T he terms room temperature, softerened, and soft mean different things. The temperature of the butter can and will make a difference in the recipe. Most cookie dough recipes depend on the emulsion that occurs when you cream butter and sugar together. This emulsion will not happen if the butter is too hot or too cold. Continue reading