Vegetable shortening is suitable for baking and cooking applications that require a fat with a high melting point, such as pie crusts, cookies, and cakes. It helps create a tender texture and flaky layers in pastries, making it ideal for recipes where a light and airy structure is desired. Additionally, it can be used in frying due to its stability at high temperatures.
Butter or margarine can be a suitable substitute for vegetable shortening in baking recipes.
A suitable replacement for vegetable shortening in baking recipes is butter, margarine, or coconut oil.
A suitable shortening substitute for cake is vegetable oil or melted butter.
A suitable substitute for butter in baking recipes that call for non-hydrogenated vegetable shortening is coconut oil.
A suitable margarine substitute for butter in baking recipes is vegetable shortening or coconut oil.
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A suitable shortening substitute for baking is butter or margarine.
Vegetable oil is unsaturated. Butter is saturated. Im not sure about 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.
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Yes, melted shortening can replace vegetable oil in zucchini bread, although shortening is not a healthy choice.