Recipe Substitutes

[phaedo54]

Ok, so I'm trying to learn to cook IC safe desserts. I started with white cake and white icing made from scratch. It wasn't bad.

I have a question about shortening though, Crisco. Can we use that? What would be a good substitute, if not? I just used butter in place of it for this recipe. The icing is a little different that way. Still tastes good, but not quite fluffy and creamy.

Or cream of tartar? I'm assuming that's bad. But I'm not sure.

I searched for Crisco on here and it took me down the wrong path.

[ICNDonna]

Crisco isn't a problem for me, but I prefer to use butter. Cream of tartar is used in such small amounts it doesn't bother me at all.

Donna

[krisillis]

I like Donna use butter, but I use the uncolored unsalted, it can be found in the frozen section (most often), it will probably give you a nicer taste to your icing too.

Christine

[GayleK]

I use regular butter ingredients are just cream and salt for a lot of my baking. I tolerate Crisco and cream of tartar also.

[mandycgirl91]

cream of tarter is ok for me if you have the ic cookbook there are some recipes i like in there....taste of the good life...i think its on this site (not advertising...)