Easy Ingredient Swaps When You're Out of These Kitchen Staples - Page 11
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Easy Ingredient Swaps When You're Out of These Kitchen Staples

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Butter

Whether it's for health or stock reasons, butter is a pretty easy ingredient to replace. In baked goods or for savory recipes, you may sub in ghee and coconut oil in equal quantities. Applesauce is another good option (1:1 ratio), but you might want to reduce the sugar content of the recipe. Other suitable substitutions for 1 cup butter include: 3/4 cup olive oil, 1 cup avocado, 1 cup mashed banana, 1 cup full-fat Greek yogurt, 1 cup nut butter (this will increase fat and calories), or 3/4 cup pumpkin puree. Margarine or vegetable shortening could work, too, but they're much less healthy options.


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Ingredients

  • 2 large water or soda bottles (empty)
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 6 eggs
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 4 tbsp cocoa powder

Method

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F.
  2. Ready 2 large plastic bottles, cleaned and dried.
  3. Add 1 cup of flour to each bottle.
  4. Add 1/2 cup of sugar to each.
  5. Melt butter, then add equal halves to each bottle.
  6. Add 6 eggs, 3 in each.
  7. Add 1/2 tbsp of baking powder to each.
  8. Add 1/2 cup of heavy cream to each.
  9. Shake the bottles thoroughly until the contents are well mixed.
  10. In one of the bottles only, add the cocoa powder.
  11. Beginning with the cocoa powder mixture, add a dolop of batter to the center of a circular
  12. baking tin. Do the same with the other mixture, placing the dolop directly in the center of the previous one.
  13. Continue with alternating additions of each mixture until all batter is used and the tin is full.
  14. Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes.
  15. Serve and enjoy!