Beans, beans the magical fruit

I am a believer that some fat is good-like the fat that comes from eating almonds, or olive oil, or avodados.  Those fats are good for you.  One fat I am not entirely sold on is butter-because of all the saturated fat it contains.  Margarine is worse (what I am wont to use because of this lactose-hating body I have) because is just a bunch of artificial and natural flavors mixed together.  So, I've been desperate to find something to substitute margarine.  Oils are easy peasy- applesauce or yogurt work well for those (1:1) ratio, but not so much for butter/ margarine.  Sad day.  I kind of gave up on being able to substitute anything for butter/margarine in baking until last week when I was watching a "Living Essentials" episode on BYUtv.  The episode was on using your food storge to make desserts.  Crystal from http://everydayfoodstorage.net/ was the guest.  She stated that you can substitute beans for butter and oil.  I got so excited I could hardly stand myself!  So, I had to do some more research and found this fat substitution article from Utah State University that states beans are a great substitute for solid fats like butter, margarine, and shortening!  They also state that bananas, pumpkin, and yogurt work well as a solid fat substitution.  WAHOO!!!!  I was/am so excited for this news.  The good thing about beans, is that they have a mild flavor, so adding them does not really change the overall flavor of the dessert you are making.  It makes the dessert very most, if not more moist!  I was so excited!  This information will change my baking.  I had to test it, so this weekend while I was baking a few things for a church activity, I decided to use beans instead of butter.  They turned out perfectly!  My wonderful husband tasted them (the ultimate food critic and taste tester), said that they tasted just fine, and you can't taste the beans in them at all.  SCORE!  Stay tuned, because on Tuesday and Wednesday I will post the recipes that I tried baking with the beans.  They turned out yummy, yummy!