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How to Make Buttercream
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32 Sweet and Savory Ways to Cook With Coconut Oil
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These coconut oil recipes range from savory to sweet—and are proof it's maybe even better than butter.
Coconut and Cardamom Cake
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Aromatic and flavorful, this tender butter cake features both coconut and cardamom for a floral, tropical take on classic yellow cake.
T.H.Ghee
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To bake or cook with the finished ghee, figure ½ tsp. infused butter per portion (e.g., make 24 cookies from 2 oz. butter). Wait at least one hour after eating before having more—it can easily take that long for the effects to be felt, and you don’t want to overdo it.
Spatter Paint Sugar Cookies
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These tender, buttery sugar cookies use cold butter (no waiting around for yours to soften!) and come together in a food processor, so you can go from zero to dough in minutes.
Nasturtium Butter
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"Compound butters are a terrific blank canvas," Ballymaloe co-founder Rory O'Connell says. "You can mix in all sorts of flavors—anchovies, capers, any herb or spice."
Andy Baraghani Says Your Cooking Needs More Acid
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Making tart, tangy ingredients the star is one of the simplest (and most delicious) ways to brighten up your cooking.
BA’s Best Peanut Butter Cookies
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This superior peanut butter cookie gets a glazed sheen from oven-steaming and double-roasted peanuts for big flavor.
Power Butter
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If you thought it was impossible to make nut butter more delicious, try this added-value version.
BA’s Best Sugar Cookies
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These simple sugar cookies are crisp yet tender, keep their shape when baked, and yes, taste great too. 
4 Ways to Cook with Peanut Butter
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Blended into a smoothie, drizzled with Sriracha, or reunited with its old pal jelly in a salted blondie, peanut butter is made for so much more than sandwiches
Chocolate Chip Cookies With Olive Oil and Sea Salt
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Olive oil gives these cookies robust, sophisticated flavor (and makes them secretly vegan).
How to Make Butter Even Better (Yes, It's Possible)
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Compound butters are one of the simplest ways to add last-minute flavor to a dish

Hunter Lewis

How to Soften Butter—Quickly—According to a Pro Baker
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Three methods for when you need cookies, right now.

Shilpa Uskokovic

Homemade Chile Butter Gives Any Meal a Whole New Lewk 
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Just don't call it compound butter. 

Molly Baz

This Tool Makes Homemade Butter in a Flash
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Homemade butter in a beautifully designed glass vessel. Not the giant wooden thing they used in the old days.

Brad Leone

How to Brown Butter and Use It for Everything
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Brown butter is the ingredient that works wonders on foods you already love—and it's beyond easy to make.

Alex Delany

How to Make Clarified Butter (First, Take Some Butter ...)
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Clarified butter is one of the most underrated stars of the kitchen. And frankly, we think that's a crime ...

Kay Chun

How To Make Your Own Butter
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Store-bought butter comes in all types, shapes, and sizes but there's something unmistakably satisfying (and delicious) about making your own at home. Flavor scientist Arielle Johnson demonstrates precisely how to make it happen in your own kitchen, explaining in detail each step of turning liquid dairy into flavorful, spreadable butter.
Rick Makes Tie-Dye Cookies
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Join Rick Martinez in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as he makes tie-dye swirl holiday cookies. The butter cookie that acts as your canvas is extremely simple to make (like, six ingredients simple), so you can spend most of your time on the fun part: unleashing your inner artiste. When you’re decorating, no need to panic if your first attempts don’t work out. Simply wipe off the failed glaze, let the cookie dry for about five minutes, and try again.
Homemade Chili Oil
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All you really need to make this easy peanut chili oil is a pair of scissors.
Brad Makes Butter
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Bon Appétit test kitchen manager, Brad Leone, is back with the second episode of "It’s Alive," and this time he’s taking you to school, making tangy, creamy, salty cultured butter. Will it be boring? Nope. Is the process scientifically accurate? Maybe. Will there be jokes and made-up words? Most likely. Will you learn about butter? Of course. Get those churning hands ready, buy some buttermilk, cream, and grab some bread. It’s Butter. It’s Alive.
Carla Makes Butter-Basted Steak with Fennel Salad
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Join Carla Music in the Bon Appétit Test Kitchen as she makes butter-basted steaks with fennel salad. There are just a few steps to make perfect steak: Step 1: Buy a great steak from a great butcher. Step 2: Salt it liberally. Step 3: Gradually build up a crusty sear. Step 4: Butter. Butter?! Yep—butter. Browned, nutty butter will deliver toasty flavor to every bite. It’s the secret to pretty much all the great steakhouse dinners you’ve ever had.
Banana Pudding
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We show you how to make banana pudding.