Comments on: Do you know a chocolate chip cookie recipe that doesn't use butter or shortening?

Question: Do you know a chocolate chip cookie recipe that doesn't use butter or shortening?

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:32:14 -0800

I'm making chocolate-chip cookies tonight and I have no butter or shortening. Can you suggest recipes without either?

I forgot to get butter at the grocery store when I went shopping for ingredients. My wife has the car and all the markets within walking distance have closed by now. I haven't found any recipes online without butter or shortening or some other random things I don't have. Here is what I have that might be useful for making cookies.

Chocolate chips (semi-sweet)
Dark chocolate (bars)
Whipped chocolate cake frosting (ill considered impulse buy)
Peanut butter and chocolate swirl chips
Peanut butter chips
Peanut butter
Flour
Salt
Sugar
Brown Sugar
Marshmallows (mini)
Cinnamon (ground)
Cocoa
Baking powder
Baking soda
Vanilla extract
Corn starch
Milk
Canned pumpkin
Cranberry sauce
Mustard
Cat (only one, so no multiple cat recipes)

By: saffry

saffry — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:38:02 -0800

vegatable oil?

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:41:36 -0800

Nope, just olive oil (yuck!)

I do have Worcestershire sauce though. I mean, it's good with so many things, why not in cookies?

By: Science!

Science! — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:41:51 -0800

My mom used to make brownies with applesauce instead of butter. At the time I thought they were a weak willed hippie substitute, but in later years I loved them. It's a starting point...

By: daisyace

daisyace — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:43:13 -0800

From allrecipes, here are the 54 results for cookie recipes with chocolate chips and flour, but without butter, crisco, or shortening. (Modify search as needed.)

By: rkent

rkent — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:45:44 -0800

Use vegetable oil. The cookies will be somewhat thinner, harder, and drier. Any chance you could wait 'til she gets back with the car?

By: Science!

Science! — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:46:01 -0800

Add margarine to that list and it drops to 35, but still that's 35!

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:55:24 -0800

Don't have applesauce! Or margarine. Or vegetable oil. Or cornflakes (curses shredded wheats! Why did I get you instead of corn flakes? My problems would be over had I done so)

The list is everything that I have in my kitchen that might be useful (it's fairly empty now, I just returned from a trip abroad). I searched through allrecipes and epicurious pretty thoroughly, but there might be something I missed. By google-fu is not especially mighty.

By: cabingirl

cabingirl — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:56:06 -0800

You could do peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. Here's one recipe that uses no additional butter. I am sure you can omit the extra peanuts if you don't have 'em.

By: Listener

Listener — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:59:18 -0800

What's wrong with olive oil? You're not going to taste it under peanut butter and chocolate. Just sub it in a recipe that uses any other vegetable oil

By: daisyace

daisyace — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 18:59:55 -0800

Hmm, after eliminating vegetable oil and gift jars of 'cookie mix' from the 35 that were left, though, there's not much. It does appear that eliminating 'butter' on allrecipes also wipes out 'peanut butter' which might otherwise be your saving grace. How committed are you to needing the result to be a chocolate chip cookie? As opposed to, say, the rocky road bars that head up this version of the search? (Assuming you don't have an egg for the cabingirl's otherwise nice suggestion.)

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:01:03 -0800

Oh curses! I have to remove one item from the list. The peanut butter jar is nearly empty. I thought it was new, but it wasn't. I really thought cabingirl's suggestion would work.

By: cabingirl

cabingirl — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:02:19 -0800

Here's another; it calls for canned pumpkin and peanut butter.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:02:49 -0800

Oh damn! I forgot to add that I had eggs. Which I do. Even I don't forget to get eggs when going shopping for cookie ingredients.

By: cabingirl

cabingirl — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:03:00 -0800

Oh, and it says you can omit the PB. Which should help!

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:04:08 -0800

Thanks cabingirl! I do have everything for the vegan chocolate chip cookies.

By: chickletworks

chickletworks — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:06:51 -0800

If you have eggs, you could make these. I imagine you could add chocolate chips, too.

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:07:14 -0800

Seriously... hwy not olive oil? Many desserts benefit from a savoury component to them. And hell, my favourite chocolatier does truffles with basil and so on.

Give it a whirl.

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 19:23:47 -0800

(Those pushing olive oil may be interested to know that there's olive oil cake out there.)

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 20:50:53 -0800

For those interested, I made the vegan chocolate chip cookies cabingirl linked to, with a few alterations. I substituted real eggs for the egg replacer, left out the peanut butter and sprinkled cinnamon sugar on top. It's delicious! Even my wife, who just returned home, and doesn't like pumpkin, really likes them.

Victory!

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