Yes you can.
You can use butter, lard, cooking spray or stick margarine as a substitute. Depending on the recipe, you could also use either apple sauce or prune puree.
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.
Gavin Ewart
make a different crumble on top
shortening is like butter 1 cup of shortening is equal to 1 cup of butter
No, its just named "apple crumble" for nothing...=w=
2000kg
No, except at the beginning of a sentence because it is not a proper noun.
Actually, that is what you should use. The brown coloring in Apple Butter does not come from ground cinnamon. It comes from cooking the apple sauce for many, many hours. My family has been making Apple Butter in a copper kettle over an open fire for many decades.
Crumble topping
Use wholemeal flour for the crumble top and add raisins to the apples
It really depends on what you are cooking/baking, but often you can substitute a cup of butter for the shortening. Don't use margarine though, because it has some water content and would possibly affect the results. You could also try half butter and half lard, which should work well, also.