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You could use oil, or butter. I would use margarine because butter is full of fat and some brands of butter are unhealthy.
Substitute margarine for butter and applesauce for oil.
YesA different answer:Butter is a major ingredient in pound cake and the primary source of flavor. Substituting margarine for butter might produce a cake, but it would be an imitation of a pound cake, just as margarine is an inexpensive imitation of butter.
You can use shortening, butter or margarine, or even mayonnaise or lard in some recipes. Actually, many chocolate cake recipes call for mayonnaise instead of oil or butter. Just keep in mind that margarine has a higher water content than butter, so you may want to use all butter or half butter/half margarine if that's the substitution you choose.
It would probably work out fine, but margarine loses a bit of volume when heated so you may wish to very slightly reduce the amount of oil.
There are several fats you can use in baking, if you don't want to use butter. Margarine for example will offer a very good vegetable based substitue, if it is because you are vegetarian. Also any of the non-fat spreads will work ok.
You can use any other oil or lard. Cream and other milk products may contain enough fat to have much the same effect as the butter on the texture and taste of your cake. As for fat-free options you could search for and experiment with vegetable gums such as Guar Gum, Pectin, Xantham Gum, etc... that are used in industrial baking as fat substitutes.
Yes you can.
Sour cream represents a fat component, so you can use butter, margarine, vegetable oil.
Avoid frying foods in oil or butter. Both oil and butter contain a lot of fat; if you are diabetic, you need to lower your fat intake to help prevent heart disease. Bake or broil instead of frying whenever possible. If you feel the need to eat fried food, use low-fat cooking spray instead of butter or low-fat vegetable oil. You should also use margarine instead of butter whenever possible; however, remember to count the carbohydrates if you use margarine.
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.