Best butter substitute?

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I am a vegan I'm going to attempt a Christmas cake this weekend and can't use butter. Should I substitute the butter with margarine, or a solid fat like Cookeen?

Margarine but not a cheap one.

By which I mean not the baking margarines like stork - my mum used those for a while but found that flora etc are better tasting in cakes.

Thank you :-) I will just use my usual eating margarine :-)

Good! :) That's what i have :)

Oh yes that's the one - couldn't remember the name but used it in a cake for friend's dairy intolerant DS and I was impressed with the taste!

I'd use a non flavoured oil - margarine is horrid stuff.

I agree with TellMeLater - I have used groundnut oil in cakes which worked well (and it does not have a strong flavour which is good)

Pure is good but cakes don't rise with it as they do with butter. But for a Christmas cake it shouldn't matter.

M&S dairy free sunflower spread. It's pretty good in cooking better than the others I've tried.

Block stork is dairy free, not sure if it's vegan though? It's different to tub stork and has a higher fat content, so works more like butter in a cake, although it obviously doesn't taste like butter.

I think stork contains fish oils