Can I use low fat spread instead of butter?

[Bluesheep8]

In a flapjack recipe? Posting for traffic. It's a "healthy" seeded flapjack recipe using honey and butter but will low fat spread work? Tia

Only if the spread says suitable for baking.

Thanks for that, I'll find one that says so

Why would you?

It won’t taste half as nice

Why would I? Because I want to....

No, they have too high a water content.

You can use flora or stork or vitalite etc. Normal spreads, but not the low fat versions.

You can use olive oil, like in this recipe

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/12026/fruity-and-chewy-flapjacks.aspx

That stuff is practically spreadable plastic, use butter.

No flapjack is healthy. You might think it is healthy as it has nuts and seeds in but the thing is stuck together with fat and sugar.

If you want to be healthy, just eat some nuts and seeds. If you want to enjoy yourself eat some flapjack. But don't pretend the two things are the same.

Low fat spreads are the work of the devil. They contain lots of water.
Use butter, but less of it

And as pp said, if you want flapjack, have flapjack. Don't try to turn it into something less bad healthy.

Flapjack is so calorie dense! Just eat a cake

Spread actually works much better than butter in sponges, keeps them light...
But if you need to melt it for the flapjack then no, it will separate.

Thanks everyone. Flapjack with butter, decision made.