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yes you can but it will be much richer remember it is equal parts so if it is 1cup oil its 1cup butter.
yes u can!
Oil helps baking be moist. If the oil is left out, the baking can be extremely dry. Bakers can substitute many forms of oil including butter and shortening.
There are a lot of things you can substitute butter with. You can use margarine, apple sauce, and even pumpkin. What I like to do when I'm baking muffins is take my dry ingredients and instead of adding eggs or butter I use a can of pumpkin. It makes the muffins extremely moist and delicious, and a lot healthier.
I personally use yogurt in place of butter in banana bread and oatmeal cookies, any cookies actually. I have never tried muffins but assume it works about the same. For cookies it turns out very light and they puff up better, for bread it helps keep it moist and tastes great.
I would think the same amount. But, you won't get the same results. Shortening is a saturated fat like lard or butter. Oil is an unsaturated fat. You won't get at all the same results. I would sub butter. If you are veg and you dont want to use animal fat but you are trying to avoid the trans fats in solid vegetable shortening, use palm oil or coconut. These are naturally solid at room temperature.
You should use the same amount of butter. It's probably also best to melt the butter so that it combines well.
It is a moist method. Most commonly used as you "sweat onions" this is to take the sugars and flavor out of the onion or garlic or what ever into the oil and or butter you are sweating them in. It is a bottom layer of what you are building.
Butter makes sure that all the mixture is binded together. It is a water/fat emulsion and also makes a cake tender, moist and creamy, and adds some color.
A touch of lemon and cinnamon makes these moist apple muffins particularly delicious.
It makes the cookies more moist and chewy. Most people enjoy moist cookies than hard cookies.
Fat in baked goods gives them a tender, moist texture. The most common types of fats used in baking are butter, shortening, oil and sometimes, even lard. Without the added fat, the baked goods would be extremely dry and not tasty at all.
Probably because it sticks.
In a supermarket in the baking section.