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Simply Recipes: Baking Expert Kristina Lavallee Explains the Best Way to Store Butter

Kristina Lavallee sharing professional butter storage recommendations for baking and cake decorating, as featured by Simply Recipes.
Credit: Simply Recipes

Simply Recipes recently featured Kristina Lavallee, founder and CEO of The Cake Girl, as one of three professional bakers sharing expert guidance on one of the kitchen's most common questions: Should butter be refrigerated?


As a professional baker and ServSafe® Certified Food Protection Manager, Kristina explained that proper butter storage is about balancing food safety with baking performance. While butter often needs to be softened before use, she emphasized that it should remain refrigerated until it is intentionally tempered for a specific recipe or production need.


Kristina shared that in a professional bakery environment, butter is refrigerated until needed and only the amount required for production is brought to room temperature. Any unused butter is promptly returned to refrigeration, helping maintain both product quality and food safety.


The article also explores how different baking applications require different butter temperatures—from room-temperature butter for cakes and buttercream to cold butter for pastries and biscuits—highlighting the importance of understanding ingredient functionality in professional baking.


Kristina's contribution to Simply Recipes further reinforces her reputation as a trusted baking expert whose experience extends beyond cake artistry into food safety, ingredient science, and professional baking techniques.



About Kristina Lavallee


Kristina Lavallee is the founder and CEO of The Cake Girl, an award-winning custom cake studio based in Tampa, Florida. A nationally recognized cake designer, pastry chef, entrepreneur, television personality, and baking expert, Kristina is an Inc. 500 Female Founder whose work has been featured by Food Network, TODAY, FOX & Friends, Access Daily, Entrepreneur, ESPN, Southern Living, Telemundo, Simply Recipes, and numerous national food and lifestyle publications. She is known for creating extraordinary custom cakes while sharing her expertise in cake artistry, baking techniques, food safety, and entrepreneurship with audiences across the country.

 
 
 
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