Stork - Perfect for Cakes or is it just wrong?!

[AnonymousBird]

DD and I are discovering baking together. We don't always get the butter out the night before and therefore it is rock hard when we want to bake. You don't always know you want to bake until the day itself! I can remember my mum using Stork and last time I was at the supermarket, I picked some up and we used it and the results were perfectly good for our Victoria Sponge...

However, if DD wants to learn to bake "properly" as it were, I wondered if using Stork is just naff and frowned upon in the baking world?! At least we can bake without having planned ahead as it is nice and soft whereas butter needs to sit out all night to get soft....

TIA

I find my cakes are much nicer whrn made with stork. Butter makes them a bit heavy imo. I only use it to make buttercream. Take it out when I start making cakes andbits soft enough by the time the cakes are cooled.

If you really want to use butter just blast it in the microwave for 5 seconds until soft.

Mary Berry recommends it! Good enough for me!

It's great stuff, often gives better results than butter. Don't use it in buttercream icing though!

I have just got the revised Delia's Cakes as an early Mother's Day present, and she suggests spreadable butter, butter for the flavour with the oil in it to help keep the cakes light, and can also be used straight from fridge.

I don't like using marg as I can't help feeling it is processed, and I would rather use natural ingredients as much as possible for homemade.

Mary Berry also says to cube the butter and put into some slightly warm water and this brings it to the right temp for creaming

I think it's good for texture but it just tastes wrong to me. Personal preference though I guess.

I think it makes a lovely textured sponge and always get compliments when I use it. Only switched from butter for ££ reasons but often use cheap 'baking spread' with a bit of butter thrown in for cakes now. Butter for buttercream though.

Wow! What a fast response! Thanks everyone. It is a lot cheaper, that's for sure. And I don't have a microwave so last minute blast not an option! Well we will make our Mother's Day cake with it in the morning and see how we go!