In baking a cake what can substituted for vegetable oil? Could olive oil?!
Answers: You can substiture olive oil, it may have a strong flavor if your cake is white or yellow. Usually a light olive oil will not penetrate chocolate flavor.
Not olive oil. Mayo is fine. or butter.soften Butter will make the cake more flavorful and richer.
Newsflash!
Olive is from the vegetable family!
All vegetable oil is, it's a mix of vegetable oils (i.e. corn, canola, sunflower,soy, etc....)
Olive oil or any other oil from the "vegetable family" will work.
In fact olive oil might make a "fluffyer" cake, but the taste (especially if using darker or "richer" oil), might be slighly affected.
The reason cake recipes call for vegetable oil, it's because it's virtually tasteless, so your cake will taste like cake.
You can sub olive oil, but your cake will have an olive flavor ... also olive oil is a good bit more expensive than plain veg oil.
Unless you are in a time crunch AND are making a strongly flavored cake, I would buy / borrow some plain veg oil.
I have before.. I didn't tase a difference but then again I'm italian and olive oil is in pretty much everything I eat
I would not put olive oil in a cake as it's strong taste may come through. You could use melted butter, margarine (not the bright orange ones & not the "American" ones that are full of water) - soya oil margarine like Lactantia. If you are trying to cut down on the oil, you can use part apple sauce, but don't substitute all of the oil out.
You could also use shortening although it is saturated fat (not good for you).
Use melted butter....It works!
NO--olive oil will taste awful!
Use an equal amount of shortening, or butter or margarine.
I believe you can use half the amount of applesauce w/ another fat.
LIGHT olive oil would work, but might give a somewhat olive flavor. Definitely do NOT use Extra Virgin! You can also try Canola oil - I have taken to using that in place of vegetable oil for all my cooking, and noticed no difference.