Can I use butter instead of vegetable oil?

Here’s a tasty cake recipe…

I would melt it first. It should work fine.

Yes but as @marinelife said you need to melt it first. You are just replacing one fat source with another, it may make it taste even better too

It should work fine. Depending on the recipe, you may be able to beat it into the cake instead of having to melt it to mix it in. Creaming the butter first is a part of many recipes. Cream the butter, add the vanilla and spices, cream in the sugar, then add the eggs and any other liquid and finally add the flower.

If you are using a cake mix, then melting it should be fine.

You can, but the caloric count will go up a LOT.

It will work; margarine would work better.

Thanks everyone! The cake turned out great. Butter works!

Yes, as long as its dairy butter and not peanut butter.

I almost always use butter when I make cakes, even olive oil. I can’t remember the last time I bought vegetable oil.