Oil rather than butter/marge in baking ...

Penelope_Penguin

trigger2 wrote: »

Does anyone know if I could substitute sunflower or olive oil ?

Sunflower yes, but olive will likely be too strong tasting

we have a thread with recipes if you just hang on ......... here you go! I'll merge this later to keep ideas together.

bexta

Hi Trigger, I'm not sure how well oil would work in a Victoria sponge, but there are a lot of cakes made just using oil as the fat.
I made this http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/recipe-carrotcake.html?opt=rsnack recently, and it is yummy. I'm sure others will be along with more recipes though.

stiltwalker

I do a carrot cake that is oil not butter

8oz grated carrot
8 oz plain flour
1 lb caster sugar
8 floz oil (sunflower or veg - anything with not much taste will do really)
1 1/2 tspn baking bicarbonate soda
1 1/2 tspn ground allspice (or mixed spice will do in a pinch)
1 tspn groung cinnamon

Mix egg, oil sugar and carrot together and beat for 2 mins, add flour, bicarb and spices in 4 lots beating each one to mix.
Pour into 2 grased and lined sandwich tin (and yes you really do need to line them or it is sticking disaster time).
Bake in a med (180 C) oven for about 40 mins or until done - this will really vary depending on your oven so keep checking from about half an hour.
You can then sandwich together when cold with either a vanilla buttercream or a traditional cream cheese thing. This makes a big, rich cake so you could quite easily halve the quantities and do one sandwich tin and cut in half before putting together to make a half cake - just depends how many of you are going to be eating it although it does keep really well.

Don't have any recipes to hand but do believe that there are some Italian cake recipes that use olive oil as the fat so might be work googling?

HTH.

trigger2

Thank you all so much. I'm going to make one of the yoghurt cakes which doesn't need butter - wish me luck !

Regards

Trigger

seasalt_2

What about muffins instead? They use oil.

life_in_termoil

If a recipe calls for 125g butter or margarine how much oil would it be?

patchwork_cat

Flora is 60% fat and olive oil is 100%, so 3/5ths, but this link says 3/4 http://www.goodcooking.com/conversions/butt_oil.htm

BitterAndTwisted

Is this sort of substitution appropriate for all recipes? My first reaction, not having done it before myself, would be that it's not. Wouldn't it inevitably make any mixture softer and wetter?

bertiebots

I have made twinks with sunflower oil instead of melted marg/butter and done 8 f oz instead of 8 oz of solid iyswim! They were yummy!

ailuro2

My pancake recipe calls for 20g of melted butter, so I used 20ml of olive oil instead, since we don't normally use butter in our house. Both are pretty much 100% fat, the pancakes always turn out really well.