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 ...

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 ...

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.

If your recipe calls for softened butter, leave the microwave off. In this video, Ivy shows you a little trick she picked up in culinary school to quickly soften your butter! Sandwiched between two ...