Softened butter is the key to success in certain baked goods, giving us tall fluffy cakes, extra-tender tart crusts, and ...

Softening butter is an important step for many baked goods. Using butter while it's cold, softened, and melted all achieve drastically different results when baking. Softened, or room temperature, ...

We all love butter, but let’s face it, when you’re ready to start baking and discover your butter is hard as a rock, it’s, well, a pain in the butt…er. Not to worry, we tested several methods for ...

While many cookie and cake recipes call softened butter (or butter at room temperature), all too often we forget to pull it out of the fridge an hour before we're ready to bake. Why is its the ...

We spoke to a French chef to learn how to store butter properly at room temperature. He said to ditch the fridge and invest in this ceramic butter bell, available at Amazon.