I am making this chocolate sauce for a dessert...all it is is melted chocolate chips and then I am dipping something into it so the recipe calls for a little bit of vegetable shortening to keep the melted chocolate from hardening up too quickly.

Since it's such a small amount of shortening and I don't have any I don't feel like wasting the money on an entire container of it just for 1 tablespoon so I was hoping someone could tell me what I could use in place of it that will give me the same effect in this recipe.

Awesome thanks, I was thinking butter but I just wanted to make sure (I am so incompetent when it comes to baking substitutions lol) cus I don't ever use vegetable shortening so I don't know enough about it and everywhere I looked online didn't really explain the difference between vegetable shortening and butter very clearly.