Hey? can i replace butter for shortening in this white cake recipe?

hey, my daughter wanted to make a white cake in her easy bake oven, but the recipe calls for shortening, which i don't have in the house right now. will it still taste good if i use butter?





white cake


Serving Size: 10





1 cup Sugar


1 1/2 cups Flour


1 teaspoon Baking Soda


1/2 teaspoon Salt


1/3 cup ShorteningHey? can i replace butter for shortening in this white cake recipe?
Yes butter will work as a substitute but the flavor and texture of the finished product will be different. So, for example, this white cake recipe call for shortening and using butter would create a yellowish cake yet I advice you to use margarine or butter though it will have a buttery flavour and will be bit yellowish instead of white colour, but DO NOT USE COOKING OIL.


goodluck in your bakingHey? can i replace butter for shortening in this white cake recipe?
Shortening is vegetable based; butter in milk based. In baking, recipes are known as formulas and much like mathematical formulas you just can't substitute numbers willy nil.





My suggestion would be to find a recipe that would call for the ingredients you do have on hand; little has to do with taste but more to do with how it'll rise. Butter is denser than shortening.





Good luck!
Yes, it will taste delicious.
You could, but use melted butter. Butter tends to give baked cakes a more ';rubbery'; texture. It's not necessarily gross-- not even; it's just the slight change of texture.
shortening is used to make sure the cake wont stick to the pan. so yeah, you could replace the shortening with butter