can you use vegetable shortening for baking cookies?

Question

i'm making cookies and i only have vegeable shortening. is there any difference? between vegeable or regular? will it make a huge difference?

Answer 1

You can, but I find using 1/2 butter and 1/2 shortening works nicely.

Answer 2

Don't swap out vegetable oil for shortening. Oil is a liquid at room temperature, shortening is not. Your cookies will not bake properly and will end up very oily and hard. Use butter if you want to substitute something, but the cookies will not be as fluffy.

Answer 3

The best shortening to use for cookies is Crisco butter flavored vegetable sticks. There are great cookie recipes on the package. I have found that using butter in cookie recipes instead of shortening will burn the cookies. Good luck with your baking. PS: Always take your cookies out of the oven 2-3 min. before the recommended time.

Answer 4

Vegetable shortening can be used and there shouldn't be a huge difference in flavor or texture. Some folks swear by Crisco or good, old-fashioned lard in all their baked goods!

Answer 5

Absolutely, go ahead, it's fine. I think it's all veg. shortening now. Another product is lard, which I think is made from beef fat. But if recipe calls for shortening, what you have is good.

Answer 6

It is determined by the fruit or plant linked to a comparison. If perhaps you compare a n to a carrot, the carrot is the better of the two nutritional. But since you compare an avocado to the carrot, then your avocado is better. Both equally the apple and avocado, are fruits.

Answer 7

no..go ahead and use your veggie shortening.....most of them are veggie shortening anyway..it will make no difference

Answer 8

no,