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, food editor Shilpa Uskokovic will answer your burning baking questions and share her tips and tricks for flawless sweets. Today: Can you use applesauce instead of oil or butter for baking?
When I was asked this, my first reaction was: Are people really doing this? Substituting fruit for fat? Then I remembered my aunt, a self-certified “health nut” who scrabbles for raspberries during her hikes and runs an almonds-for-snacks household. She once told me that she made a chocolate cake but used applesauce instead of oil. “It tasted good, but I had to use my electric knife to cut it.”
So this is for my aunt and everyone else like her. In a nutshell, the answer to the question, “Can I replace oil or butter with applesauce?” is a resounding, “Sometimes.” Let me explain., unsweetened applesauce is just cooked and puréed apples. It contains lots of water, some natural sugar, fiber, and pectin. This high water content is both good and bad .
But it’s not all bad news. There are some situations where you can exchange applesauce for oil or butter. Here's the fine print.Recipes containing oil or melted butter are a good place to start experimenting with applesauce. Since these recipes don’t depend on the creaming properties of the fat for their structure, using applesauce instead of oil is more likely to be successful. Start by swapping out 20–50% of the oil or melted butter for applesauce.
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