Oil Or Butter???

Decorating By butternut Updated 20 Dec 2006 , 4:40pm by 2sdae

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butternut Posted 20 Dec 2006 , 2:25pm
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Good morning everyone. I'm getting ready to make a cake this morning and I thought I would try adding an extra egg to my boxed mix as well as a box of pudding, 1/2 coffee creamer and 1/2 milk. Now, I was also thinking of replacing the oil with butter. I've never substituted butter for the oil called for. Do you think this in addition to the other things that I'm using will be too much????? I'm afraid that too many changes may make the cake flop. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!!!!!

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praetorian2000 Posted 20 Dec 2006 , 2:40pm
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Nope. Melted butter and liquid oil are interchangeable.

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butternut Posted 20 Dec 2006 , 2:57pm
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Thanks so much. Just curious, do many of you use butter instead of oil? Does it really make a big difference? Thanks again.

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starrchaser Posted 20 Dec 2006 , 3:03pm
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if i run out of oil i use butter. i even used melter margaring once and it was no problem.

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louie750 Posted 20 Dec 2006 , 4:10pm
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I was wondering about this myself... I have this recipe that uses 2 cups of oil, the cake is really moist but it has too much of an oil taste, so I was hoping that subbing butter for half will give it a better taste. If I wanted to sub melted butter for 1 cup of oil should I just melt 2 sticks of butter (equivalent to 1 cup) or actually measure out 1 cup of melted butter?
Thanks!

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2sdae Posted 20 Dec 2006 , 4:40pm
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I would actually measure the amount of melted butter to make sure it comes to the exact amount you want, just in case. Once you get a feel for it free hand will be fine.

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