Category: Baking
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How to soften butter in the microwave
The trick to softening butter is to retain the integrity of the butter while heating it to a workable temperature. You absolutely do not want to melt the butter as you heat it. (1) Place necessary amount of frozen or refrigerated butter on a microwave-safe dish in its wrapper, and set microwave to 50-75% (2) […]
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Buckeye Candy
Yield: 200 balls What I Used: 2 cups peanut butter 1 lb unsalted butter (room temperature or softened) 3 lbs confectioner’s sugar (roughly) 3 tsp vanilla 24 oz semi-sweet chocolate morsels 1 /4 block paraffin (you may choose to temper the chocolate, but I find that this works for the relatively small amount of chocolate […]
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How to temper chocolate in the microwave
While there are many different ways to temper chocolate (double boiler, immersion blender, etc), I prefer the ease of the microwave and the good ole seeding technique. The general rules are to get the chocolate warm but not too hot, add about 1/4 of the original amount of chocolate (not melted) to the melted chocolate […]
