Here are 5 ways to easily replace butter in your recipes

You're making a chocolate cake, and you've started mixing the ingredients together when you realise you're out of butter. Rather than running to the shop, take a look in your pantry instead, there are some very practical alternatives!

1. Applesauce

Applesauce can replace the butter, but also the sugar in a recipe. It will have less of a taste in chocolate cake than in a plain cake. It will make your cake as smooth as butter, but without the calories.

2. Coconut oil

Coconut oil is a perfect way to replace butter. Its neutral taste allows it to be used in both savoury and sweet mixtures.

3. Bananas

Suitable for pancakes or cakes, crushed banana will allow you to keep a smooth texture even without adding any fat. The riper the banana, the stronger its taste will be.

4. Courgettes

Cooked and crushed courgettes are a good substitute for butter in sweet and savoury dishes. Its taste is very neutral and if you remove the skin, you won't even notice the difference between your usual recipe. Don't forget about our famous chocolate courgette cake recipe!

5. Avocado

Avocado is known for its fatty texture and is very suitable for baking. It also contains unsaturated fatty acids, which is excellent from a nutritional point of view.

Alternatively, you can make your own homemade butter using fresh cream. For your convenience, you can invest in a homemade butter kit available online!