How to Cut in Butter
Use this tutorial guide to guide you through a key step of pastry making: cutting in butter.
Ingredients
- Bowl of flour for your pastry
- Unsalted Butter, cold and cubed
Instructions
- In a large bowl, add the flour and other dry ingredients.
- Remove the unsalted butter from the fridge, cut the correct amount that you need and cube the butter until it is all in 1/2 inch cubes.
- Add the cubed butter to the flour mixture and cut in the butter by whichever method you decide. The mixture is done when there are only pea-sized bits of butter left in the mixture.
- Once the butter is cut in, proceed with your recipe that you are making