I need help with this Pound Cake recipe?

I got it from Food Network. It's Paula Deen's recipe. Can I use vegetable oil instead of vegetable shortening?





1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, plus more for pan


1/2 cup vegetable shortening


3 cups sugar


5 eggs


3 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan


1/2 teaspoon fine salt


1/2 teaspoon baking powder


1 cup milk


1 teaspoon vanilla extract





Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.





With a mixer, cream butter and shortening together. Add sugar, a little at a time. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating after each addition. Stir dry ingredients together in a bowl and add to mixer alternately with milk, starting with the flour and ending with the flour. Mix in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured tube pan and bake for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.I need help with this Pound Cake recipe?
I make pound cakes all the time, and I love Paula Deen, my suggestion would be to use 3 sticks of butter instead of using the half cup of vegetable shortening. And do not use confectioner sugar, use the regular sugar.I need help with this Pound Cake recipe?
No. The texture would be off. Use what the ingredients say. Or pick another recipe, such as:


http://www.dianaskitchen.com/page/recipe鈥?/a>
Looks like in this recipe you can't use vegetable oil since its used primarily in the creaming part of the recipe, but shortening is basically lard (fat) so if you don't have shortening then just use butter even though you already have butter just add more or run to your local grocery store. Who cares for the extra calories its cake!
Pound the cake a couple of times with your fist then its a true pound cake. Make sure to have a pound of butter then it makes a pound XD
Sure you can. It may even make the cake a little more moist.

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