When it comes to baking cookies, cakes and pastries, the creamy goodness of butter provides a rich flavor, texture and ...

The BHG Test Kitchen shares its best tips for how to substitute butter for shortening when you're in a baking pinch. When it's time for a baking therapy session, but you're short of the shortening ...

Amelia Schwartz is a Brooklyn-based writer and editor who has been covering food, beverage, and culture for over seven years. She is currently an editor at Food & Wine magazine, focusing on trends ...

After all, as Sara Bareilles's "Waitress" famously reminds us, there are three major ingredients in baking: "Sugar, butter, flour." Butter, in particular, often raises a lot of questions ...

it’s the ones that need softened or room-temperature butter that can mess you up and delay your baking projects. Here are three easy ways to soften butter, and when you should use each.

Here’s why you should add Martha Stewart’s baking butter of choice to your grocery list this month. What is Plugrà butter? Plugrà is an American-made European-style butter that’s made by ...

Before you start baking with butter, Pépin says the first step is to taste it. A well-made butter should have a dairy-rich, sweet cream flavor. That’s what gives everything from an all-butter ...

She also discusses the best butters to use for all of your holiday baking, as well as the right ways to store butter. We tasted 17 salted butters and baked with 11 unsalted butters. These are our ...