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Can you use 1 cup butter instead of 1 cup shortening in a cake recipe?
Depending on the recipe, It should work. Shortening was used as a replacement for butter along tima ago to reduce the price of products and to use up shortening or lard. Try to taste the finished product in your head and see if butter would go with the product. Chef Frank
Can vegetable oil be substituted for melted shortening?
It depends on the recipe. Shortening becomes solid at room temperature while vegetable oil does not. So vegetable oil may be substituted for melted shortening only in recipes that do not depend on shortening becoming solid for texture when cooled.
Can shortening be used instead of butter?
Yes, and it is probably better for you. Shortening is made with hydrogenated fat, which we probably all should try to reduce in our diets. The results will be a bit different. Butter will add a bit more moisture to your recipe. If you are baking your recipe, such as cookies, you might want to add an egg. The egg will prevent the cookies from spreading too much and add a cake like texture to them, similar to the "crisp outside, chewy inside" results from shortening.
What should I use instead of molasses in my recipe?
You can substitute honey, maple syrup, or corn syrup for molasses in your recipe.
How much butter should you use instead of butter extract?
Butter is not a substitute for butter extract. Butter extract is a fat-free flavoring used when for some reason butter cannot be used. When butter is used, it should replace the fat in the recipe - shortening, oil or lard - and the butter extract will not be needed.
What can you use instead of one egg white?
You should follow what the recipe says.
Can you replace shorting with butter in pound cake recipe?
Yes, butter can be substituted for shortening in most recipes. The resulting product will have more intense flavor, but may be a bit flatter or thinner. When using salted butter, one should also reduce the additional salt called for in the recipe.
Can crisco be use for vegetable oil in baking?
You can safely substitute liquid oil for solid shortening in baking ONLY if the recipe calls for the shortening to be melted first. You can substitute butter or margarine for shortening ( 1 cup + 2 Tbsp for each cup of shortening). You can also substitute 1/2 cup applesauce or prune puree for each cup of shortening.
Is there a limit to how much cannabis butter you can add to brownies?
I'll show my ignorance or my age. Never heard of cannabis butter. If this is actual butter with cannabis in it, you could use the amount of shortening the recipe calls for. For any recipe, there is a ratio of shortening to flour and other ingredients that should be followed fairly closely to get the finished product. Too much shortening and you will end up with something like runny fudge instead of a brownie. If what you are talking about is what used to be referred to as Honey Oil, just the good stuff in an oil or paste, then you could add quite a lot and get away with it. Flavor would be the issue at some point.
What can be used instead of eggs or butter in a cookie recipe?
In many things you can use margarine, lard, or shortening instead of butter, or a combination of any of them. I actually use 1/3 butter, 1/3 shortening, and 1/3 lard for the fat in my homemade pie crust, which gives excellent results. Just keep in mind that margarine has a higher water content than butter, so depending on what you are baking, the results may be just a little different than with butter.
How much lard equals one cup shortening?
The two aren't precisely equivalent. To know whether or not you can replace shortening with oil in any given recipe, you may need to try it and see. As a starting point for your experiments, you should probably use approximately 1/4 less oil than the recipe calls for in shortening. Adjust this up or down depending on results.
Can you substitute oil for shortening on pie crust?
No, pie crust is one of the things that has to use a solid shortening.
