Best margarine for cakes

purplepardalis

Hi everyone

I usually use butter but this gets expensive! Can someone please recommend me a margarine?

Thank you!

WantToBeSE

It may not be to everyones taste, but i use tesco everyday value soft spread. Its about £1.30 for 1kg.

cutestkids

I use Flora buttery, I wait till it is on a special offer usually it is on at £1.00 for the 500 gram tub at one of the main supermarkets every few weeks, I stock up when I see it as it always has a really long date on it.

ariba10

We use "Greenvale" "Perfect for baking" from Aldi.

Cannot recall the price but very reasonable and good results.

pollys

I use Flora, the original one.

Pollys

purplepardalis

Thanks guys. I didn't realise you could use the spread ones. I thought you had to buy stork or something similar!

cutestkids

Hi

It should show you on the tub what it is suitable for, the very low fat ones are not generally suitable but most of the normal ones are,

angeltreats

I only use Stork (or butter). I actually prefer Stork to butter for sponges, I think it gives a lighter, fluffier texture.

I've tried many other brands of margarine over the years and haven't liked any of them. A few (notably the own brand stuff from wholesalers which my old boss forced me to use while she was cutting costs) actually have a really unpleasant gritty texture, and some of them (the low fat ones) have too high a water content. Things like bogstandard (not light) Flora or Utterly Buttery are ok and will do the job fine, but I prefer Stork.

purplepardalis

I think I'll give stork a go. At least no one will use it for spreading!

I won't go to the fridge only to find it's disappeared :-)

mummypops

Great question, had only been wondering about this myself.
Thanks for your top tips i think Ill try stork too. ;-)

Molly41

Gotta be St0rk!