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No butter cake/sponge/dessert...anything?? Help needed!!

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Erm...a little embarrassed here :o I have a few friends round for dinner and am making a delicious dinner....BUT have forgotten to buy the butter to make the dessert (was only planning to make a sponge cake) and have no marg. What else can I make? Have all basic baking ingredients and any help will be VERY gratefully received!!!
:xmassmile:rudolf:

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  • Pink.
    Pink. Posts: 17,650 Forumite
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    Hi lemonade_money,

    If you have some cream, what about meringues or pavlova?

    There are some recipes and links for cakes without butter in these older threads that might help:

    HM Cakes the "lighter" versions

    Does anyone know a recipe for fat free cake

    Margerine in a sponge

    Pink
  • meanmarie
    meanmarie Posts: 5,331 Forumite
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    You could make a butterless sponge....separate your eggs, beat yolks and sugar until creamy and holding a shape when you lift beaters, sift in s.r. flour and then stiff whisk whites and fold in with a cutting movement, using a metal spoon, cook as normal...should rise well but if you are nervous about this sift in half a teaspoon baking powder with flour...good luck

    Marie
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  • Sarahsaver
    Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
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    Have you got any vegetable oil? I use this as an alternative all the time and it makes very light sponges.
    Member no.1 of the 'I'm not in a clique' group :rotfl:
    I have done reading too!
    To avoid all evil, to do good,
    to purify the mind- that is the
    teaching of the Buddhas.
  • Many thanks all - gorgeous butter-free sponge in oven!
    :xmassmile:rudolf:
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