Margarine – vegan butter

To replace butter in recipes, margarine is the best solution, and if you don't want to buy it you can make it at home with just a few ingredients.

Margarine is simply an emulsion of water and oil. To create it and have the same consistency as butter, simply replace the % of animal fats with vegetable fats.

In this way you can replace the butter with margarine in equal quantities without having to rebalance the recipes. 

Procedure with video lesson

Weigh the cocoa butter into a jug and melt in the microwave, bring to 40/45°C.

Add the seed oil, lecithin, water and blend with the immersion blender for a few minutes until the ingredients bind well together.

Cover with cling film and leave to rest in the fridge, emulsify with the blender approximately every 20 minutes until the cocoa butter begins to solidify. Repeat this process approximately 3 times.

Transfer to a container or make loaves and then leave to rest in the fridge for 12 hours. At this point the margarine will be ready to be used.

Measure the recipe based on how much margarine you need.