Your taste buds are all set for fresh chocolate chip cookies. You can visualize them coming fresh from the oven, golden brown and delicious. But as you start to create the dough, you realize your butter is rock hard. You could pop it in the microwave or put it in a pan, but the butter will likely end up as liquid or scalded, which simply won't do for your recipe.
This brilliant hack turns the tables. Simply grate your frozen butter on a cheese grater. The slivers of butter are flexible and easy to work with. They also thaw much faster. Problem solved.
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