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 ...

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 ...

When a recipe calls for room temperature butter and the stick is hard as a rock, a simple solution can quickly change the consistency. Instead of melting the butter in the microwave, this simple hack ...

There have been countless times when I’ve planned to bake something (like holiday cookies), but as soon as I scan through the recipe, I realize that it calls for softened butter and all I have is rock ...