If you get low on butter, you actually have a lot of options. Margarine is fine to substitute, but if that's not on hand, you can substitute Crisco cup for

cup. For melted butter, any light oil will work. Stay away from using olive oil, because that flavor might overpower the recipe.

If you thought the recipe needed baking soda, but it turns out it's baking power and your supply is low, don't worry. To substitute a tsp of baking power, use

a 1/4 tsp of baking soda and a half cup of plain yogurt or buttermilk. Then, reduce the liquids of the recipe by 1/2 cup.

Honey is just sweet water, right? Well not exactly, but you can use that for a substitute. 1 cup of honey can be replaced by 1 1/4 cups sugar dissolved

in 1 cup of water. The special honey flavor will be missing, but the added sweetness will be the perfect amount.

If your day is soured by no sour cream, there's still hope. Plain greek yogurt is an easy cup for cup switch.

You can swap out sour cream for yogurt, but a really cool trick is subbing it take a cup of cottage cheese, blend til smooth and use that. Or a

cup of buttermilk works! Who knew all the ways to swap out yogurt?

With powdered sugar, white sugar, Light Brown, Dark Brown, there's a lot of sugars. So, if you accidentally picked up the wrong one when you really need Light Brown, no

problem. You can just use dark brown sugar! It makes little difference in the taste. But if you want to be exact, you can use a cup of white sugar

and a tablespoon of molasses.

Here's a bonus brown sugar tip from Dishes and Dust Bunnies.

Running out of chocolate is a nightmare on many levels. But if you need chocolate bars, there's an easy sub. For one square of chocolate, use 3 tablespoons of baking

cocoa and 1 tablespoon of light oil.

Every once is awhile, you need light corn syrup, you buy a bottle, then never use it again for a year. So, if you somehow used your whole bottle or

just don't want to buy light corn syrup for one recipe, here's an easy solution. Just dissolve a 1/4 cup of sugar in 1 cup of water. If you boil

it for a bit, it will also get to a similar consistency of corn syrup.

Maybe that lemon sitting in the fridge has been sitting there too long. Well, you can sub lemon juice for 1/4 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. Why didn't we learn

this sooner?

How many times have you avoided a recipe because you didn't want to buy a quart of buttermilk? It's actually very easy to substitute. Just use 1 cup of milk and

a tablespoon of vinegar (any kind except balsamic). 

For a different way to make buttermilk with more info, visit Whole and Heavenly Oven.