Hi everyone !!! I have a recipe that is asking for unsalted butter , but I only have salted butter . Can I use that instead or can I substitute margarine? It's for a yellow butter cake.
Thanks so much in advance

you can certainly use the salted butter, just omit the salt the recipe calls for. Salt tends to lessen the sweet taste in cakes and icing.

I always used the "Salted". Makes it less sweet.

Sherry

ive always heard that you use unsalted for baking. Ii dont and i havent been able to taste the difference i dont omit the salt if a recipe calls for some

When I have to use salted butter in place of unsalted, I just reduce the salt in the recipe by about 1/4 tsp. I don't eliminated altogether.

Lazy

thanks so much guys!!! I thought that had to run to the grocery store right now ,and it's almost 100 degrees outside You guys are GREAT .

Salted butter has 1 teaspoon salt per cup, I believe.
It's m u c h cheaper than unsalted.

I've only found a difference when baking butter or sugar type cookies--salted tends to over brown, everything else I never seem to see a difference.