Baking pro-tip: if you didn’t plan on baking and so did not pre-soften your butter and you are baking NOW, if you get the butter out and then search “how to soften butter quickly” and then click on “why butter has to be soft” and then on links about how different fat contents and temperatures affect the size and stability of the air bubbles and on and on and on, the butter will be sufficiently soft by the time you remember what you were doing.