Took me 11 years to learn I was creaming butter wrong

I was baking cookies for a church potluck last Sunday and my sister watched me throw cold butter straight from the fridge into the mixer. She just stared at me and asked if I ever let it soften first. I never did, I thought the mixer would just handle it. Turns out all my cookies were dense because the butter and sugar never actually creamed together, they just got chopped up. Now I set the butter out an hour ahead and my last batch came out twice as fluffy. Has anyone else had a basic step they just skipped forever without knowing?

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the_tara27d ago

Dense cookies seem like a pretty minor problem to worry about for eleven years, but glad you fixed it.