A question about a recipe: Cream Cheese Cookies

Suzanne is a trusted source on General Cooking.

added 5 months ago

It's much easier to control the amount of salt when you use unsalted butter, also, I find cream cheese to be a bit on the salty side so if you used salted butter they just may be too salty,

• 2 People think this is an excellent answer
• Reply
• Flag this answer for inappropriate content

Maddy heads up content distribution and partnerships for Food52.

added 5 months ago

The recipe calls for the addition of 1/2 tsp. salt, so using salted butter would yield too-salty cookies. Cream cheese also contains salt. Also, in general, unsalted butter is the standard for baking.

• 0 People think this is an excellent answer
• Reply
• Flag this answer for inappropriate content

twistandsnag added 4 months ago

Salted butters don't all use the same amount of salt. Therefore, substituting it is going to be way harder than just using non-salted butter.

• 0 People think this is an excellent answer
• Reply
• Flag this answer for inappropriate content