| The Easter bunny is waiting in the wings and the hot cross buns are ready to be toasted. But have you moulded your butter into the shape of a Doric or Ionic pillar yet? Thankfully, there is still time. Butter moulds and sculptures are enjoying a moment – the sky’s the limit and butter maestros have shared pictures of butter in the shape of cowboy boots, chateaus and Le Corbusier armchairs on social media. Late last year, influencer and consummate host Laura Jackson called it “the trend of the moment” – but with the butter mould showing no signs of melting from the ether, it feels a fitting time to find out what’s going on in the dairy aisle, and beyond. First to its most timely iteration: the butter lamb, or baranek wielkanocny in Polish. A traditional butter sculpture it graces the table at Easter lunch for many Polish, Russian and Slovenian Catholic families. It was reportedly brought to the US by the Polish people who settled there in the late 1800s, and is now big in Buffalo, New York and the midwest. But while lambs might be particularly apt for this time of year, the internet is full of stylish moulds, from vintage wooden shapes with scalloped edges and edelweiss or on-the-nose cow motifs to silicon iterations that will help you craft cherubs or seashells. A spectacle, without being spectacularly expensive. | 