Most of the time, we have frozen butter cubes weighed out for a double crust pie. Our conclusion: Unsalted butter is the answer for your baking.īaking Tip: Wrapped butter either as unopened butter or butter sticks or cubes wrapped in plastic wrap and then bagged in freezer storage bags, is a great way to have butter on hand when you need it. If you used salted butter and no additional salt instead, the salt in the butter translates to 1-1/3 teaspoons salt/8 grams. Unsalted butter: 113 grams / 8 Tablespoons Looking at a popular recipe like Chocolate Chip cookies using salted butter, whether with or without including the salt listed on the ingredients, will almost always increase the amount of salt for the recipe. If you used salted butter and no additional salt instead, the salt in the butter translates to about 3/4 teaspoon/4 grams (1-1/3 times as much). The Sour Cream Butter Cake’s ingredients in The Cake Bible includes:ģ grams/1/2 teaspoon salt for 170 grams /12 Tablespoons unsalted butter. Here are two examples of how much extra salt will be added to a recipe if you choose salted butter instead of unsalted butter: But based on further research offering percentage of sodium in various butters our estimate is between 4.5 and 6 grams of salt.īecause the amount of salt in salted butter can vary between brands, we have rounded it off to say that if you are using salted butter remove about 1 teaspoon/6 grams of butter per pound. This equates to a little over 7 grams which is a tiny bit over 1 teaspoon. The National Dairy Council (NDC) states that “generally, salted butter contains 1.6–1.7 percent” salt. We also prefer unsalted butter because it usually has a fresher flavor. In all of our recipes where butter is an ingredient, we list the butter as unsalted butter.
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