Is Butter Ok?

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mo63 Posted 16 Jul 2011 , 7:56am
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I want to make the oreo cupcakes and I don't have vegetable oil. Is it ok to use melted butter instead? Also the recipe I have calls for breadflour but is self raising/all purpose flour the same?

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jillyscakes Posted 16 Jul 2011 , 1:39pm
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Vegetable oil will give different result to butter even if melted and bread flour is very different to self raising. There are a lot of recipes that uou can google for oreo cupcakes that use butter and self raising flour though thumbs_up.gif

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mo63 Posted 16 Jul 2011 , 5:04pm
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Vegetable oil will give different result to butter even if melted and bread flour is very different to self raising. There are a lot of recipes that uou can google for oreo cupcakes that use butter and self raising flour though thumbs_up.gif


Thank you for your reply. I decided just to go ahead and use the melted butter and SR flour and there was no disaster haha. The only slight problem was that i looked at the amount of sugar in the recipe and decided it looked an awful lot so cut 1 and half ounces off. Big mistake because of the strong bitterness of the cocoa !!! But I made up for it with the oreo buttercream topping. They were very nice anyway. And after all the worrying about converting the US measurments to UK, there was no need.

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Osgirl Posted 18 Jul 2011 , 4:58am
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I use this recipe for oreo cupcakes:

http://annies-eats.net/2010/06/02/cookies-and-cream-cupcakes/

It uses butter not oil and it's yummy!

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SarahL4683 Posted 18 Jul 2011 , 5:27am
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I've used melted shortening in a pinch in case anyone else runs in to a similar issue...

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mo63 Posted 19 Jul 2011 , 6:15am
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Originally Posted by Osgirl

I use this recipe for oreo cupcakes:

http://annies-eats.net/2010/06/02/cookies-and-cream-cupcakes/

It uses butter not oil and it's yummy!


This recipe looks great. Gonna give this one a try at the weekend. I tried the one with a chocolate base originally, never thought about a vanilla base. Thanks for the link. icon_smile.gif

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