Can you make cookies without butter? What do you use instead?

Question

sugar cookie recipe without using butter.

Answer 1

This recipe is ideal for anyone who doesn't want the insulin swings, osteoporosis, increased risk of diabetes, excess bodyfat, and tooth decay that come from eating refined sugar. It's also ideal for anyone who doesn't want the clogged arteries and saturated fat that butter provides. These cookies contain required-for-health unsaturated fats. And they are delicious!

1 cup canola oil (or any unsaturated oil)
2 eggs, large (preferably free-range)
2 bananas, medium (or use pureed apples for less sugar)
1 apple
1 cup water
1 cup amaranth flour
1 cup soy flour
1 cup oat groats (not oatmeal)
½ cup raisins, medium
2 tbspn arrowroot powder
1 tsp baking soda
¼ tsp salt
2 oz vanilla
2 tblspn cinnamon
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Preheat oven to 375 ºF.
Apply coating of oil to cookie pan.
Mix oil, eggs in large bowl.
Puree apple in blender (do NOT peel), using about ½ the water.
Add pureed apples to mix, rinse blender into bowl with remaining water.
Mix in amaranth.
Mix in soy.
Mix in the other dry ingredients, except cinnamon.
After mixing the above, add cinnamon and vanilla.
Add water as needed for consistency.
Drop onto cookie sheet and bake 15 to 17 minutes.
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The cookies will be soft, and they are entirely dunkable! These use no saturated fat or processed sugar. The cinnamon will boost your metabolism (burning fat in the process), and the high protein of the amaranth and soy will nourish your muscles. The fat in these is the kind your body needs for healthy nerves and tissue, as well as for the metabolism of other fats. The fruits provide fiber and (except for the raisins) low-glycemic sugar.

Answer 2

Here is a recipe for a quick Peanut butter cookie, these are very good and only requires 4 ingredients..

1 cup Peanut butter
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking soda

Directions:
Preheat oven at 375
In a medium bowl, mix together all 4 ingredients until well blended. Roll dough into 1 inch balls, and place on ungreased cookie sheet.
My grandmother always would take a fork and make crisscross patterns on top of dropped balls.
Bake for 6 to 8 minutes in the preheated oven, Cool..enjoy

Answer 3

You absolutely CANNOT use oil. Cookies will turn out in terms of the visual if you use lard or margarine, but they will not taste nearly as good without butter. My sister-in-law made cookies using margarine, once 35 years ago, and has never been allowed to forget that taste disaster. Use butter.

Answer 4

They might taste a little 'off.' You can use shortening in butter's place and the cookies will be fluffier and chewier (because shortening has a different melting point than butter). I'd use half margarine and half shortening to get a nice combo of taste and fluffieness.

Answer 5

You can use stick margarine instead, and they normally turn out as good as when you use butter.

Answer 6

my sister uses crisco in her cookies, and they taste pretty good

Answer 7

margarine

Answer 8

margarine, oil, or shortening.