The pros call it "flavor insurance." In culinary school, and then as a professional recipe developer, cookbook author, and food director at REAL SIMPLE, it has been ingrained in me to use unsalted ...

Cultured butter gives cookies and shortbread a gentle, tangy background note. The butter, different from what's labeled ''sweet cream butter'' in the supermarket, is the result of introducing good, ...

It’s easy to think of butter as just butter. But, in baking, temperature completely changes how it behaves in your dough or ...

If you’re a home baker, you can never have enough butter stashed away in your fridge and freezer. Because who hasn’thit up their grocery store only to find that the entire stock of unsalted butter was ...

This savory shortbread offers great butter flavor, a lovely smooth cookie texture, herbal notes from the rosemary and a salty punch. Perfect for a charcuterie board. Instructions: Whisk flour and salt ...

Emily Saladino is a journalist, editor, and recipe developer in New York. Previously a culinary editor at Food Network and managing editor of Wine Enthusiast, she works as a contributing editor at ...

Welcome to Bon Appétit Bake Club, a community of curious bakers. Each month senior test kitchen editors Jesse Szewczyk and Shilpa Uskokovic share a must-make recipe and dive deep on why it works. Come ...