Substitute Vegetable or olive oil for Coconut oil
What coconut oil does in a recipe: Plant fat that's solid below 76°F: creams like butter in vegan baking, and the virgin kind perfumes everything with coconut.
Vegetable or olive oil
per 1 cup coconut oil
US1 cup vegetable or olive oil in melted-oil recipes
Metric240 ml
Pantry stapleBaking-safe ✓VeganDairy-freeGluten-freeEgg-freeNut-freeSoy-freeAlcohol-freeSesame-free
Stays liquid, so you lose solid-fat structure — bake softer things.
What changes: Cookies spread, crusts less flaky
Best for: Quick breads, muffins
Where Coconut oil is the substitute: substitute Coconut oil for Butter
More options: all 3 Coconut oil substitutes
Common questions
- What is the ratio for substituting Vegetable or olive oil for Coconut oil?
- per 1 cup coconut oil — US: 1 cup vegetable or olive oil in melted-oil recipes. Metric: 240 ml.
- Why does Vegetable or olive oil work as a Coconut oil substitute?
- Stays liquid, so you lose solid-fat structure — bake softer things.
- What changes when you use Vegetable or olive oil instead of Coconut oil?
- Cookies spread, crusts less flaky
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