Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past, I was often indifferent about a recipe calling for softened butter. I would just throw a stick of cold butter in the ...

The Warm Glass Method Heating a glass bowl with hot water, then drying it and inverting it over your stick of butter creates ...

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, ...

Why didn't I think of this?

We’ve all experienced that moment of kitchen despair when you begin a baking project and realize you forgot to set out your butter for softening. We’ve also all been privy to the errors of stubbornly ...