Baking with coconut oil instead of butter?!
Baking with coconut oil instead of butter?
Hi,
I have a cookie recipe that calls for 2 cups/4 sticks of butter and would prefer to use coconut oil in the recipe. I know many peole use coconut oils as a substitute. Logic tells me that 2 cups of melted butter is equivalent to 2 cups of coconut oil, but I don't know if there is there a special formula to determine how much oil I should use? I don't want soggy or crispy cookies!
As a sidenote, I have both "regular" coconut oil and the expeller-pressed (oil w/o the coconut flavor)...don't know if it matters, but I was going to use the flavorless oil instead.
Thanks for your help!
2 weeks ago
Thanks...but is butter considered a vegetable oil or a shortening?
Answers:
2 weeks ago
Thanks...but is butter considered a vegetable oil or a shortening?
To substitute for vegetable oil, use the amount of oil called for in the recipe, melt the coconut oil and be sure that the other ingredients (eggs, liquids, etc.) are at room temperature or at least warm enough so that they do not cool the coconut oil enough to make it solidify.
To substitute for shortening, use a combination 1/2 butter and 1/2 coconut oil. (Actually the amount of coconut oil can be reduced by about 25%, so in a recipe calling for 1 cup of shortening I would use 1/2 cup butter and 3/8 cup of coconut oil. If you want to use all coconut oil 3/4 cup of coconut oil should work as a substitute for 1 cup of shortening.)
Measurements which could be tedious if measured by volume become simple when measured by weight. You will also find that your results are more consistent.
Source(s):
http://www.coconutoil-online.com/recipes...
Hey Bargainmamma,
in the south I do have very much problems with the oil they use. I have been in Spain, Italy, Croatia and Colombia. After a week there my stomach and my nose revolts. In Europe they use olive oil in South America they use Coconut oil. I personally replace butter by sunflower oil because it is nearly not aromathic. If I need the aroma of butter I take a tablespoonfull of it.
We have here in the north a very delicious meal
called "Grünkohl und Pinkel". All the nothern Germans are very fond of it. Even here I do replace the lard by sunflower oil. There was no one who noticed it.
Greetings from Hamburg, Germany
Heinz