Margarine is crap...

[LaLaLand]

In crap the margarine eats YOU.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: LaLaLand
In crap the margarine eats YOU.

Hehe 😀

Interesting article from WebMD: What's healthier for you: butter or margarine?

Of course this doesn't have anything to do w/ cookies, but a good read nevertheless 🙂

 

[StageLeft]

We use butter for baking applications but margarine is the only thing we use as a spreadon home made garlic bread, for instance.

 

[Apathetic]

Margarine, as you've found, out can NOT be used as a substitute for butter when baking.

Dave

 

[Jeff7]

I don't think I know the difference, in taste anyway. Of course, the last time I put butter/margarine on anything other than a recipe was....uh...like over a year ago.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Apathetic
Margarine, as you've found, out can NOT be used as a substitute for butter when baking.

Dave

butter flavored crisco,+ a lil water works ok.. 🙂

borrowed below from here

The choc. chip shortbread above
notwithstanding, margarine really has no
place in baking. The difference between the
two, to a baker, is the melting point. Marg
has a higher melting point than butter, so
that butter melts in ones mouth and marg
doesn't. That's why things made with marg
seems "wrong" -- they dont' have the right
moughfeel. Another point: most margarines
have all the health "benefits" of butter --
so why use it; and the ones that are low fat
have too much water to be useful in
baking.


Crisco is a different beast. It doesn't have
much flavor, unlike butter, and leads to a
different textured batter than butter. This
is particularly notiable in pie crust.
Butter leads to a crumbly crust, crisco to a
somewhat flaky crust, and lard to a very
flaky crust. It also leads to differently
textured cookies, but I don't know why. But
I do know that cookies made with butter are
chewier than the same cookies made with
crisco.


OK, OK, so my bias is obvious. But at least
I have some science to back it up.

 

[Mallow]

margarine is basically plastic. It's primarity trans-fatty acids which are worse than saturated fats :/