Food making and butter

(Somehow Apple autocorrect corrected “and butter” into “an delicious butter”)
I’m making something similar to a cake, but am trying to change some stuff.
Just curious, if you are making a biscuit base, why do you need the butter? Is it to make it more solid or something?
Since I’m too lazy to make the actual layers, I was just going to mix the biscuits in with the filling, do I still need butter?

 

you can always replace by frying oil or it is not needed but adding butter or oil and that dried milk ... *sigh* sorry my words are lacking for a proper explanation but it helps to have the cake spongier..... spongy? oh welp hope you understood or wait for anothers replies xD

 

butter makes everything better.

 

Thanks

 

Barbecue is the BEST. I recommend it, so don't waste cooking other stuff.

 

Biscuits are like a caramel where you add a filler like flour... the sugar and butter component is the caramel.

Butter is more natural than vegetable oil (not sure what oil you want to experiment with... if you do experiment try peanut oil or coconut oil if you are avoiding dairy works with flakey biscuit recipes not biscuits that needs to solid hard)

 

Basically,

You can almost cook anything without oil, but the product might be sticky as hell and it wouldnt taste good. Even if you replace butter with other oil, you will get different taste. Some food can go with olive oil though, such as steak or bread. But for baking, nothing can beat butter in my book....

 

What cake are you making?

 

Margarine is a good replacement for butter in baking but it has less moisture. So things like cookies come out more crispy than chewy. Not sure how it would work in a cake. I wouldn't try to substitute vegetable oils for butter in a baking recipe.