Butter or Margarine in cakes

[3wheels]

Which do you prefer? Is margarine ok to use in cakes, does it taste ok? I'm getting annoyed with trying to remember to keep my butter out of the fridge to soften if I'm going to bake so wondering which margarine would be best to use. Thank you. X

Always butter. For everything.

I have a good tip for what to do with margarine though. Throw it away. Then drop the bin it's in into liquid concrete. Once it's set, drop the concrete block into the ocean. Then drop some mines on to it. Then nuke the whole planet from orbit. Just to be sure.

Butter, always.

Margarine is disgusting and processed.

Do a blind taste test, margarine and stork leave a disgusting aftertaste. Mary Berry is probably paid to promote stork.

Butter butter butter !

Used to make cookies with margarine and they were so greasy and had a nasty after taste. Never used marg in cakes but I think if you don't want to use butter you're best off using veg oil as it is totally tasteless and keeps cake really moist. It isn't a straight substitute though as you'd use slightly less oil as you would butter...

Mary Berry hails from the days when marg was thought to be a healthier alternative to butter.

@PickAChew

Mary Berry hails from the days when marg was thought to be a healthier alternative to butter.

So do I , but I don't still subscribe to that thought, and I doubt that Mary Berry does either any more.

@ginfordinner my 70 something mum is a recent convert back to butter and has just about got over the idea that prawns are loaded with cholesterol, which is a universal baddie.

I'm sure we do things now that will be cringed at in 30 years. I'm 50 something, so brought up with flora and cottage cheese but have deduced that minimally processed food is probably the safest.

My friend was doing a Phd in Physiology and Nutrition in the Bio Chemistry dept where I was based, some years back, and I remember asking her - what is the most important thing you can do to improve human nutrition and what is one thing we should all change - she thought about and said - eat butter not margerine. Has always stuck with me.