What can replace butter in baking?

Virtually no sweet pastry is complete without butter or margarine. For various reasons, modern housewives are increasingly thinking about how you can replace the butter in baking.What products will help make pastries tasty and healthy? All answers in our material.

Despite the fact that butter has been a favorite product of many people for decades, modern housewives tend not to use it in baking. Removing the butter from the recipe, you can not only reduce the caloric content of the finished dish, but also bring in a new taste and benefit. An excellent alternative can be fruit and even vegetable puree. Thanks to such a tasty and healthy replacement, muffins, muffins and cakes become airy and light. By the way, using such mashed potatoes for cookies or for a pie, do not be afraid that this will negatively affect the taste.

Puree of juicy and fresh apples is great for replacing butter in muffins or cake bases. For this it is quite possible to use ready-made mashed potatoes, which are sold in baby food departments. And you can do it yourself. To make the dough as lush and as smooth as possible, the finished apple sauce must be free of lumps. This fruit mass can be safely replaced by half of the specified amount of butter, and you can put puree into the dough only. It is important to remember that puree will need as much grams as oil. If for a cake you need two hundred grams of butter, then, accordingly, it can be replaced with the same amount of mashed potatoes.

Also in the recipe, you can use mashed fresh bananas. But it is important to take into account the fact that banana puree slightly weights the dough, so it is better to replace them with half the specified amount of butter. Otherwise, the dough will not rise, it will be too dense and wet. Many people like the green and healthy exotic fruit of avocado due to their taste and benefits.

Fatty mass of avocado is quite able to replace the butter in the sand or some other test. Puree from this exotic fruit will need exactly two times less. That is, instead of two hundred grams of butter we put in the dough only one hundred grams of such mashed potatoes. By the way, it is best to use it together with cocoa avocado to make the dough in a nice color. The fruit gives a greenish tint to the dough, but not everyone likes it.

Another useful substitute is prune puree. It is quite possible to cook it yourself or you can buy ready-made. This puree is perfect for those recipes, which include chocolate or cocoa. Prune can be completely replaced with butter. Proportions should be observed one to one.

By the way, in addition to fruit, you can use vegetable puree. For example, if it is a zucchini. By itself, this vegetable does not have a pronounced taste, so it is often added to pastries. You do not need to cook or bake it beforehand; it is quite possible to use raw fruit. The main thing is to thoroughly grind it to a state of homogeneous mass. It is advisable to choose smaller, young zucchini. Then you can fray the fruit with the peel.

It is worth noting that chocolate brownie-like muffins acquire a delicate and airy texture due to this puree. And if you use a dark zucchini, the dough will be even more tender. It is possible to use pumpkin puree. If there is no finished product, then the required amount of pumpkin should be boiled in water or steamed, and then chopped into mashed potatoes. Perfectly made with such mashed muffins and muffins. Baking gets a nice bright color, and the dough is very airy. By the way, the taste of pumpkin is not felt at all.

Habitual butter is quite possible to replace any other butter. Less calorie and more beneficial. For example, many housewives use only ghee in their recipes. You can buy a finished product, and you can make it yourself at home.In the process of cooking ghee, all unnecessary and harmful impurities are removed. As a result, a pure product remains that does not adversely affect health. Using ghee, you should slightly reduce these proportions. For example, if the recipe says one hundred and fifty grams of butter, then the baked one will need one hundred and twenty.

Baking with butter often causes heaviness in the stomach or heartburn. In this case, you can replace it with sunflower oil. Thanks to him, the dough will be softer. Choose refined and refined butter, then the taste of baking will remain the same. Vegetable oil is perfect for baking, muffins and even shortbread dough. If the recipe says one hundred grams of butter, then replace it with seventy milligrams of vegetable.

You can also replace our usual dairy product with coconut oil. It is necessary to use it one to one. It is worth remembering that if you use an unrefined product, then baking will acquire a characteristic flavor. Of course, this is good only if you are preparing sweet pastries, for example, sandy cookies. And in the rest of baking, the dominance of coconut flavor can spoil the expected result.

Peanut paste, which is made from high-quality nuts and without the addition of harmful additives, may well be used in baking. Muffins or muffins are very tasty. This alternative will appeal to everyone who is not indifferent to the flavor of peanuts.

Sometimes there is simply no butter at hand and the housewives go for various tricks to bake a delicious dessert. For example, the missing ingredient is replaced by mayonnaise or natural yogurt. Mayonnaise can be taken in equal proportions, and yogurt will need half the oil.

Finally, we have a few helpful tips. which will surely come in handy to all those who are not indifferent to fragrant and tasty pastries.

• Banana puree is perfect for pastry dough. For example, for buns, sweet cakes or homemade bread. Thanks to the yeast dough with such mashed potatoes will surely rise and will not be too dense.
• If you decide to change the oil to vegetable puree, then you should stick to the ratio of one to one.
• If the house has olive oil, then it is quite suitable instead of butter or sunflower. Unrefined can be used for bread or savory pastries, and refined for muffins or cookies.
• In the sand dough half the proportion of butter can be replaced by cottage cheese. As a result, the dough will turn out tasty and crumbly. Cottage cheese must first be ground.
• If you have a margarine made from soy milk, then it can be used in baking, keeping the ratio of one to one.
• For baking instead of butter it is quite possible to use mixed mashed potatoes. For example, pumpkin and apple or apple and banana.

For information on how to replace the butter in baking, see the video below.