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Choc cake - Butter question.

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  • 10-02-2011 4:57pm
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    Niamho!
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    Hi All,

    May seem like a silly question but I'm not really a baker, usually.

    Just wondering... for making a Chocolate Fudge cake, Should you only use unsalted butter??

    Cheers! :)


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    Niamho!
    Registered Users Posts: 1,060 ✭✭✭Niamho!


    Sorry...Mod's feel free to delete this. I just saw a recipe in a thread below which answered my question! Apologies!


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    huskerdu
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    Niamho! wrote: »
    Hi All,

    May seem like a silly question but I'm not really a baker, usually.

    Just wondering... for making a Chocolate Fudge cake, Should you only use unsalted butter??

    Cheers! :)

    It is an interesting question.

    Lots of recipes insist that you only use unsalted butter. I always use salted butter and never noticed any salty taste or anything wring with the cakes.

    Does anyone think that it realty makes a difference ?


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    Acoshla
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    It only makes a difference I think in buttercream and chocolate biscuit cake with digestives, because digestives are very salty so I always use unsalted then.


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    shinikins
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    I agree with Spadina, doesn't make a whole lot of difference to most things.

    I can remember going to Newry for work and bought tons of unsalted butter(cheap and good quality and hard to get in my local supermarket before any asks why :p), i froze most of it, and was using it up as i went along. Anyway, I ran out one day making a cake for my dads birthday(first attempt at making creme patissierre with gelatin-disaster!) and just lobbed in ordinary butter-didn't make a whit of difference to the cake! The awful, lumpy creme patissierre sure did though-blergh!!


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    toadfly
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    Spadina wrote: »
    It only makes a difference I think in buttercream and chocolate biscuit cake with digestives, because digestives are very salty so I always use unsalted then.

    I always use salted butter for buttercream, used unsalted once and it was horrible..maybe there are nicer brands but the one I got was rank!


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