For the home baker Crisco will work just fine. Your mainly looking for the emulsifiers added to high ratio shortening. Sweetex would be the commercial brand, and is most definitely better than alpine.
No to long ago I moved and could no longer find the brand of pre-creamed stuff I used to get in the grocery store. So I bought CK Hi-ratio and when oping it I could have cried. I complained in here that it seemed so soft and how in the world could this stuff be worth the money. I was told that is was crisco on steroids and to just try it.
OK so I have made it twice and used it on three cakes now. My verdict is that this stuff is magical and really holds the emulsion well. I use less moisture then Sugarshack calls for because I live in hot & humid FL but this stuff holds up nice and is smooth. Much better then with just crisco or the pre-creamed I mourned. Thankfully my mourning is over Haha I am a hi-ratio girl now!
For the home baker Crisco will work just fine. Your mainly looking for the emulsifiers added to high ratio shortening. Sweetex would be the commercial brand, and is most definitely better than alpine.
I have to disagree, crisco is nothing like hiratio. I'll never go back to crisco or any store brand of shortening since using hiratio.
For the home baker Crisco will work just fine. Your mainly looking for the emulsifiers added to high ratio shortening. Sweetex would be the commercial brand, and is most definitely better than alpine.
I have to disagree, crisco is nothing like hiratio. I'll never go back to crisco or any store brand of shortening since using hiratio.
Oh I definitely ditto this! Sorry, Crisco is in no way even close to being hi ratio. Just tonight I attempted Sugarshack recipe with my newly acquired Sweetex....holy smokes! Knocks the pants off of every shortening based icing I've ever made. I have made a lot. It's why I switched to SMBC awhile back, but find the necessity for a shortening based occasionally due to where I live.
Crisco=not hi-ratio at all.
i use the ck brand also,(its the only one iv had a chance to use) and i love it! works great by itself or half and half.i started to run low on my high ratio,so i used half high ratio and half my reg shortening,and it work great also! ive also used it with half butter,which works great too!
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