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butter bleed on my sugar cookies
How do I prevent butter bleed on my sugar cookies_

How do I prevent butter bleed on my sugar cookies?

May 16, 2018 Posted by 6cakesandmore Baking 101: The Basics, Recent 6 Comments

How do I prevent butter bleed on my sugar cookies?

 

How do I prevent butter bleed on my sugar cookies? Yet another very popular question I see. Once it happens, there’s no real way to get rid of it. But there are several ways to stop it from happening in the first place!

  • Don’t let your cookies completely cool on the pan. Give them about 4 minutes after taking them out of the oven, then move them to a cooling rack.
  • Place the fully cooled cookies on paper towels.ย Once your cookies have completely cooled, let them set on a layer of paper towels. If you can let them set overnight this is a great option. If you need to decorate sooner than that, it’s okay! Just make sure to keep them setting on paper towels through the decorating process. This way, the paper towel absorbs any extra butter instead of it seeping up into your royal icing.
  • Use a new layer of paper towels if they’re sitting overnight.ย More often than not, I flood my cookies the same day I bake them. They set on paper towels once they’re cooled. They stay on those paper towels until I’m ready to put them up for the night. I line a large plastic container with new paper towels and move the flooded cookies to set overnight. The container does have a lid, but it isn’t airtight.
  • Make sure where you’re working isn’t hot. You don’t have to keep the air conditioner blasting while working on your sugar cookies, but you definitely don’t want your work area to be hot. What happens to butter when it gets hot? It melts. Sugar cookies contain butter. My recipes in particular contain a lot. Side note: butter makes everything better! This doesn’t have to turn out to be a bad thing though! Just stay out of the direct sunlight and don’t overheat those gorgeous, delicious little things! ๐Ÿ™‚

Following these tips has eliminated butter bleed for me!

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  • Kristin Henrichs Sculli
    · Reply

    July 12, 2018 at 12:21 PM

    I just want to thank you so much for this post! I have been using this technique since I found your post and it has worked! No more butter bleed! I really needed it for my graduation orders – lots of black and red. Every one of them turned out perfect. Thanks again!

    • Kyndall @ 6 Cakes & More
      · Reply

      July 13, 2018 at 9:33 AM

      I’m so glad to hear this and happy I could help! ๐Ÿ™‚

  • Kristin
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    May 29, 2018 at 10:54 PM

    When you place the cookies on the first set of paper towels (before decorating), do you put the side you are going to decorate down on the paper towel or the reverse side? Thanks for tip as I see a lot of butter bleed on my darker cookies (except black, for some reason). It drive me nuts!!!

    • 6cakesandmore
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      May 30, 2018 at 12:52 PM

      I just place them onto paper towels exactly how they come out of the oven. No need to flip them. ๐Ÿ™‚ The paper towel will absorb any excess butter from the bottom and keep it from moving upwards. I hope that helps! It used to drive me nuts as well!

  • Mary-Jean McMillan
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    May 29, 2018 at 3:00 PM

    I just started using the paper towels and am hoping that’s an answer. I don’t have it happen all the time, so it’s hard to judge, but so far so good. Also, there actually is a fix for the bleed once it happens. You can put the cookies in the oven overnight (or at lease quite a few hours) with just the oven light on. I was given this tip by Grunderfully Delicious and found it worked. The ugly bleed was gone. I thought it caused it to dry out, but I didn’t realize that it actually causes the bleed to spread so that it is now an even bleed – so the color may be darker than originally planned. Hoping I never have to do that again, though, with the paper towels and keeping my air on a little cooler than normal (but, now have to listen to the hubs complain our bill’s going to go up – lol.) I also always dry in front of a fan.

    • 6cakesandmore
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      May 30, 2018 at 12:55 PM

      I completely forgot about the oven tip for spreading the bleed, so thank you for reminding me! When I was struggling with the butter bleed I didn’t ever have the time to let them set and evenly spread the bleeding. The air running more often is also a big complaint in our home lol. We definitely participate in Thermostat Wars even without having baked goods sitting around haha! I do hope it helps and thanks again!

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