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

[yellowellie]

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.)

Use bertolli for the mixture, softer to mix and the cakes taste better

And I always put a block of butter in the microwave for 30 secs to make butter icing.

Chocolate Drop Cake has melted butter cake and icing.

I just SO can't be bothered to cream the butter with sugar etc etc

It takes like 20 seconds with an electric whisk. Quicker than your method of melting. What's to be bothered by?

Get a mixer then. Melted butter could end up scrambling your egg in a cake ew!

Most types of cake don’t require you to cream the butter and sugar. All in one mixes are the way forward!

Get a mixer then. Melted butter could end up scrambling your egg in a cake ew

I've never had that problem, I just change the order of ingredients. I melt the butter in a pan then add sugar and flour, mix together, this cools the mixture then I add the eggs. I use a hand whisk to mix to ensure properly aerated. Always works out fine.

Thanks Dottie, I like your style

I use stork & leave it out for a couple of minutes first, same with my unsalted butter as it makes it that little bit more malleable when you first put a whisk in. Then again, if I'm making sponge or anything I think I can get away with it in, I shove everything in together. It usually whisks v well & I get compliments on my nice light cakes! Butter is fine unless it's fridge solid.

The only way I can make butter icing is to turn the cocoa/icing sugar and the butter into crumble crumbs. If the butter isn't totally soft, it quickly warms because it gets handled lots. I put a drop of milk in to whisk it to a paste.