Here's Why You Should Be Using the Reverse Creaming Method for Cakes

This relatively unorthodox technique has quickly become a favorite of our test kitchen editors.

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You're probably familiar with the traditional creaming method. Most cake and muffin recipes use it; they instruct bakers to incorporate fat (most often butter) into the batter by creaming it first with sugar before adding other ingredients like eggs, flour, and leaveners. Reverse creaming takes a different approach. Our editors were introduced to this technique by master baker and cookbook author