Hi Ratio Shortening illegal in CA -- ANY IDEAS????

Help! A couple of years ago, California made trans-fat ILLEGAL in CA. Now I cannot buy hi-ratio shortening here, and I cannot have it shipped here either. Any ideas what I can use in its place? Oh, and not even our Crisco is allowed to have trans-fat!

I HATE the way my frosting tastes and acts now!!!!! It's almost made me leave cake decorating -- almost! lol.

Please if anyone is from CA and has found a way to duplicate what we have lost without the transfat, I would LOVE to know what you do.

THank you!

Appreciate all the replies. Thank you all very much. A couple of points of clarification....

The ONLY thing I use the hi-ratio shortening for is for my crusting butter cream, which I don't think you can make with just straight butter. That is the problem...and I should have been clearer because here's the issue...

1. It doesn't crust the same without the transfat....it gets FLAKEY, which I hate.

2. It doesn't smooth the same....and if I WERE to use REAL butter ONLY (I use the WIlton 1/2 and 1/2 recipe right now)...the recipe wouldn't crust.

3. I have found that the TASTE of the non-transfat is AWFUL. Does Sweetex Z taste okay??

THank you all.
 

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Originally Posted by jason_kraft 

Sweetex Z tastes pretty much the same as regular Sweetex, as I said the only difference is the temperature sensitivity, at least in our crusting BC recipe (which is dairy-free). Different recipes may yield different results.
NYC maintains a list of trans-fat free shortening options, since it also has a trans-fat ban:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/transfat/english/shorteninglist.pdf
BTW it is still legal to use shortening with trans-fat for personal use, I was able to purchase regular Sweetex in a local cake supply shop in Orange County just a few months ago.

Oh really? How were you able to buy the regular Sweetex at a cake supply shop? (and I know it says I'm in Eagle Idaho, but we are in CA now) The only cake store we have here says they aren't allowed to sell it. I was under the impression that I couldn't buy it or have it shipped to CA at all! If that's the case, then I will definitely order some tonight! Jason, what is the name of the Orange County shop you bought it at? Maybe I can call them.

Thank you so much everyone!

Tobycat

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Originally Posted by jason_kraft 

This was the store, in Orange:
http://www.abccakes.com/
AFAIK it's still legal for a retailer to sell it as an ingredient, the ban applies to food facilities using it.
Most online retailers will probably still be OK shipping to CA, I haven't tried but it's worth a shot. For example:
http://tinyurl.com/c8byuqb

Thank you, thank you!

:)

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Originally Posted by kazita 

I wad told if you use it for personal use and not for selling than a suppiler doesn't have a problem shipping it to you. If you are using it for personal use I might be wrong but don't think you want 50 pounds of it. I buy the CK brand in 3 pound tubs you can find it online just Google CK high ratio shortening

Thank you so much! This is good news indeed! I am so excited to find out that I can get this again. People who have never tried it cannot know the difference between how it reacts in a crusting butter cream vs crisco! (And, yes, I know that this stuff is gross, but ultimately, it's what is needed to make the crusting bc.) So, thank you all again!

Tobycat