Why Do I Need Crisco All Vegetable Shortening For My Baking?
Crisco is the magic sauce that takes your baking from good to great. It makes pie crusts extra flaky, your buttercream fluffy and snowy white, and keeps your icing stable (prevents it from melting in summer).
Made from vegetable oils such as hydrogenated soybean, cottonseed or refined palm oils, Crisco’s All Vegetable Shortening is the chef's choice for creating the best baked desserts. The process of hydrogenation makes these oils become solid at room temperature, keeping baked goodies from spreading too much as they bake.
Use Crisco as an alternative for butter or margarine. Using butter can make recipes seem a bit oiler and also harder once they cool down, while Crisco keeps them nice and soft. Fats in shortening remain intact and soft after melting, but butter separates into oil and milk solids.
Crisco shortening is especially useful for buttercream frosting that sets firm, for creating those crumbly crisp textures for pie crusts, as well as pastries, sweet breads, biscuits, cakes and cookies.
See the below recipes for inspiration:
Best Pie Crust using Shortening
- Tips from the author! Chill the shortening before hand so that it's really cold
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Delicious Buttercream Frosting
- Shortening based buttercream is perfect for use in hot climates, when you need stability or are after pure white buttercream.
Image source: Lollipop Cake Supplies
