If a recipe calls for shortening, can you use butter or vegetable oil instead?

Shortening and butter are different in fat and starch. If you use shortening in cookies, they'll be crispier and fatter, if you use butter in cookies, it'll be softer and shorter.





If you want taller baked things, use shortening, any thing else, butter. Veggie oil doesn't have any fat so it wouldn't do anything with it's size.If a recipe calls for shortening, can you use butter or vegetable oil instead?
Yes, you can use butter. I wouldnt use vegetable oil.If a recipe calls for shortening, can you use butter or vegetable oil instead?
Butter, shortening and lard are all interchangeable, depending on what you're cooking/baking. (Obviously you wouldn't put lard in a nice light cake!) Sometimes you can use vegetable oil instead of shortening, but that would be for frying or sauteing.


Really need to know what the recipe is for to give a qualified answer.
Yes and you can even use apple sauce. I do.
yes do it all the time. I regularly substitute salted butter and vegetable oil for shortening.


The only trick is figuring out what the liquid equivalent of the shortening is when you want to substitute the vegetable oil for the shortening