To want to only bake cakes where the recipe requires the butter to be melted?

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I just SO can't be bothered to cream the butter with sugar etc etc. When you melt the butter with the sugar in a pan and then chuck in the other ingredients it's so much easier, don't you think?

So - cake recipes where the butter has to be melted please!

(I know this being in aibu is a bit of a stretch.)

(I know this post is one of the most inconsequential ever.)

(Sorry.)

I melt the butter in the microwave (just until it is very soft, not warm) to make Victoria sponge and other sponge cakes. They usually come out beautifully. So YANBU...

BBC good food ultimate chocolate cake is your friend

if you soften the butter in the microwave & then use an electric mixer, it is easy. no need to beat in the butter by hand.

I use Stork, leave it to soften slightly before using. No-one has ever complained when they eat my cakes that I haven't used proper butter (unless they are being polite)

Oh well in that case, here is a fabulous cake recipe, I change the cocoa powder for coconut/vanilla/biscoff/whatever, it is a really really good cake and cupcake [cook 20 mins] recipe www.flora.com/recipes/detail/99904/1/vegan-chocolate-cake

I mean cupcakes take 20 mins not the 35 for a sandwich. An easy peasy melted marge cake, not butter but bloody good.

Use oil ....

A cheats way to do it is to use a soft marg for the cake mix, but grease your cake tins with some 'proper' butter, this gives the cake that real butter taste, and if you use the lower fat version of marg the cake has a few less calories, and then you dont feel so bad about the cream etc ....

Nigella chocolate Guinness cake!

Another Nigella one - the chocolate Coca Cola cake.

I don’t remember if Nigella chocolate Guiness cake is a melt the butter one (assume it is given pp) but it would be worth it even if you had to hand grind the cocoa beans with your dominant hand tied behind your back.

Get a good mixer and creaming is easy though.

SlipperyLizard that's one of our favourite cakes! There's no other chocolate cake that comes close...

Mary Berry can’t go wrong chocolate cake. Works okay if you replace cocoa with flour and vanilla extract too though is a slightly funny colour when you do.

Hummingbird Cafe Lemon Drizzle Loaf Cake. It is absolute hsacen and you melt the butter in the recipe

I don't keep butter in the fridge, so it's always soft enough to spread on bread or use for baking.

I have an insulated butter dish that stops it melting in hot weather or becoming dairy rock in the winter.

Nigella's banana loaf from Domestic Goddess. Also her brownies from the same book (I know not strictly a cake.)

I always melt the butter whether the recipe says so or not, cakes turn out fine! The only time you can't get away with it is if you're making butter-based icing, for obvious reasons.

I'm with you OP. I hate creaming, so do brownies or ginger cake where everything is melted together.

I also only use ready made liners (from pound shop) rather than fiddling with greaseproof paper as I hate doing that too.

Or you could just take the butter out of the fridge for an hour before you start......

I bloody hate margarine in cakes.

Parkin, can't recall the details but basically fats, syrup treacle melted/warmed in a pan, dry stuff like flour, oats sugar ginger in a bowl, pour one on the other and stir up. Thanks for reminding me to find the proper recipe before Halloween and bonfire night!

I often put all the ingredients into the mixing bowl at once (butter pre-melted in microwave) and leave it on high speed beater setting while I’m busy doing other things . Never had any problems with my sponges.

I always melt butter whether the recipe says or not and it’s always fine.

IDrinkFromTheKegOfGlory it is a fab cake - and so easy. I have an even better recipe for a chocolate wedding cake, but it is a labour of love!

Brilliant replies, thank you.

Was about to order an insulated butter dish then saw the comments about just using melted butter in normal recipes anyway and love that idea more, will try it.

While we're here - any good (simple) chocolate mousse cake recipes?