When you want to bake the perfect, homemade cookies, not just any type of butter will do -- the right consistency can make or ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

you can see why it makes sense in baking. Its components make it a perfectly suitable substitute for oil, its thick and creamy constitution is similar to that of softened butter, and since it ...