You accomplish two things when you cream butter and sugar:Ĭreaming evenly disperses the sugar throughout the batter, completely dissolving it into the butter. It’s often the first step in a cookie or cake recipe and forms the base to which other ingredients are added.
Technically, creaming means mixing butter and sugar together on a moderately high speed until well blended, fluffy and pale yellow. What, exactly, does a recipe mean when it asks you to “cream butter and sugar”? Once a common baking term, 'creaming' is seen less often in recipes these days, sometimes even replaced by the word “mixing.” There are distinctions between the two methods, though, and for best results when baking, it helps to know exactly what you’re looking for when creaming butter and sugar.
