Follow these methods to soften butter correctly for baking and more.

Heating a glass bowl with hot water, then drying it and inverting it over your stick of butter creates gentle warmth that softens butter in about 10 minutes. This technique has become wildly popular ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the past, I was often indifferent about a recipe calling for softened butter. I would just throw a stick of cold butter in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Softened butter is easier to cream with sugar, allowing air to be incorporated into the mixture. The air bubbles that form then ...