On 1/21/2018 6:28 PM, U.S. Janet B. wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Jan 2018 18:35:10 -0500, "Tom Del Rosso"
> > wrote:
>
>> I never liked the texture of a cake with vegetable oil. Can you
>> substitute butter and in what ratio?
>
> because I'm too lazy to get up, go down and search the book out, I
> would recommend that you do an Internet search
> 'butter vs. vegetable oil baking properties' or something similar. I
> guess that you are making a box mix because making a cake with oil and
> water is a typical box mix direction. So if you are making a box mix
> switching to butter could mess with the chemistry.
> Cakes from scratch generally use butter or vegetable shortening and
> aren't that hard to make if you follow the directions.
> Janet US
>


we did that, and came up with conflicting opinions.