Don’t leave butter out for more than four hours—it can change color and flavor. Keep butter in its original wrapper in the ...

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, ...

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 ...