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 ...

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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, ...

For when you forgot to do it ahead of time—again. 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.