shortening?

[missmuffcake]

I am trying to make cupcakes but have yet to find a vegan shortening, I can only find Earth Balance in tubs. Am I out of luck?

Comments

[xemcats]

Well, Crisco's vegan.

Earth Balance does make shortening though. They're in sticks in a green package.

[sugar_lumps]

you can also just replace the shortening with vegan margarine. frosting won't stay firm for long in room temperature, but it'll taste great nonetheless.

[imyerjoeyramone]

yeh i use vegan margarine instead of shortening .. works fine.

[meowed]

In a blind taste test I conducted* people actually preferred it with margarine to shortening. I found that if I left them in the fridge overnight or for an hour or so before I took them, they held up really well.

*Well not really but I brought cupcakes to work twice with buttercream icing made one week with margarine and one with shortening.

[muero_de_risa]

For frosting you can just use Earth Balance buttery sticks in lieu of shortening. We did this at the bakery I worked at in Portland after a while because the shortening wasn't always available for the stock orders.

What kind are you baking?

[heartttcore]

You could just use margarine for frostings and such, they just won't really set at room temperature. (You'd have to refrigerate them for a while.)

[br0ken_dolly]

lol... yeah, i was going to say the same thing about crisco. just watch the butter flavor, since i know it at least used to have dairy in it.

spectrum shortening is really the best stuff but i never go through a tub quickly enough.