Butter vs. Margarine

[AnyDream]

I often use a blend of butter (because it cooks and tastes as planned in the recipe) and another healthy oil like olive, canola or rice bran oil. Just remember when substituting oil to use a lot less because butter has other things in it but oil is 100% fat.

[Phteven]

Margarine was developed in a laboratory. It's full of toxic chemicals and it's dyed yellow so that it isn't an unappetising grey colour.
Butter is made from milk and tastes delicious.

[Cherished]

Butter all the way! I'm going to start making my own in a few weeks from raw biodynamic, organic cream. I'm sure it will be YUMMMMO too. My great grandma told me once that the secret to great tasting home made cookies etc is to use good butter

[Eenee]

I would use butter here but as dairy free we use nuttelex. But yes butter is healthier as margarine is full of unnatural nasties.

[LuluHB]

We do pretty much what leckert does - marg for sandwiches and butter for everything else. When I'm baking unless the recipe specifically comments on it I use unsalted butter. I hate the thought of all the chemicals in marg, and given that most of the baking I do is for the kids (no, really it is ) and they're such scrawny little weeds I'd rather have the different/extra fat content of the butter over the nasties of the margarine.

[Netix]

Butter it is then. I can't even remember if I use marg in recipes that call for it specifically. I think I do. We also use marg for sandwiches as we don't keep it in the fridge, unlike the butter, which I always use for cooking, and i don't think its even unsalted

[Phteven]

I always use salted butter and add less salt - salt makes cakes yummier because it brings out the sweet.

I'm a full fat kinda girl