Use the same amount of butter as you would shortening. In bread, a tablespoon of butter can be used instead of a tablespoon of shortening. The same amount of canola oil is even healthier.
Crisco brand butter shortening contains butter flavor, while regular Crisco brand shortening does not. This gives the butter shortening a buttery taste that the regular shortening lacks. Both can be used interchangeably in recipes that call for shortening.
Yes, you can substitute butter for shortening in this recipe.
Yes, but the flavor will be altered and not have the butter flavor from the butter flavored shortening
The advantages of using butter and using shortening in butter creme icings include butter's good taste, and the shortening in butter seals the moisture in the cake.
Butter is one type of shortening. Use a cup of butter.
I normally replace with half shortening and half butter. It works fine.
Yes and yes.
Yes, that would be just fine. A shortening agent can be any of various fats such as butter, lard, margarine, and so on. So, butter is shortening.
Butter is the best replacement for shortening.
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No. Butter is butter. Melting it doesn't make it any healthier.