In Baking Hows, Whys, and WTFs, food editor Shilpa Uskokovic will answer your burning baking questions and share her tips and tricks for perfect sweets. Today, how can you soften butter, quickly? I am ...

Countless recipes, my own included, indicate “soft butter.” I even have a couple recipes where I instruct for the butter to be “soft like mayonnaise.” The trouble is that while it’s easy to get butter ...

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 ...

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.