Can You Use Butter Instead Of Margarine
Camila Farah
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For some people baking a perfect cookie is a difficult task that requires careful consideration and ample practice. Still it is possible. Can you use butter in place of margarine and vice versa. The simple answer is that yes you can use margarine instead of butter.
Growing up in brazil we always used margarine for everything. Modern types of margarine are made from vegetable oils which contain polyunsaturated fats that can lower the bad ldl cholesterol when used instead of saturated fat. But before you make that substitution you will want to understand why the recipe calls for butter and what it does for the recipe. On most cake recipes back then it called for margarine or butter and a lot of recipes used oil instead.
Using margarine instead of butter can lead to cookies that burn easily spread out too much or don t get the right texture. Butter was an expensive and non practical alternative but the bakery would always make the best buttery baguette toasts. Then i moved to europe. Butter is also the better choice for frying.
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Whether cooking or baking butter and margarine can be swapped one for another at a 1 1 ratio but you will often notice both textural and flavor differences. If you do use margarine in baking be sure it is not a calorie reduced product and has at least 80 fat. Because it s more resistant to being broken down by heat says noted food scientist harold mcgee in his cook s bible on food and cooking butter doesn t become gummy the way unsaturated oils do.
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