<< Has anyone ever baked with shortening instead of butter? >>
All the time.
I use:
CRISCO artificially flavored BUTTER FLAVOR
(All-vegetable shortening sticks).
Don't see ANY difference. Try it!
Ingredients: partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oil, mono and
diglycerides, artificial butter flavor, and beta-carotene (pro vitamin A,
added for color).
Hilda Nic Chárthaigh