Meringue cookies are butter and oil free. See link below for recipe.
yes but you have to use less butter than the normal amount of oil
Yes. You can substitute apple sauce in an equal volume for any dessert recipe that requires a fat like butter, margarine, oil, or shortening. It is almost the same and can be very healthy.
You must mean that you don't want to use butter... you may substitute butter for olive oil, vegetable oil or canola oil.
Not really. They have different properties and cook differently. You can sometimes use olive oil to saute something in place of butter, but if the recipe calls for butter, use butter. Sometimes you can substitute vegetable oil or canola oil, but not olive oil.
If a frosting recipe has butter in it, use the butter. Oil will change the consistency and not taste good.
Although the secret to the recipe for Milles Cookies is a company secret (the cookies are delivered in-store in frozen batches), it appears that the secret to a chewy-cookie is to use both brown and caster sugar in your recipe. A recipe using oil or melted butter will also make chewy cookies.
yes
There are several fats you can use in baking, if you don't want to use butter. Margarine for example will offer a very good vegetable based substitue, if it is because you are vegetarian. Also any of the non-fat spreads will work ok.
Butter is not a substitute for butter extract. Butter extract is a fat-free flavoring used when for some reason butter cannot be used. When butter is used, it should replace the fat in the recipe - shortening, oil or lard - and the butter extract will not be needed.
Yes, but it will change the taste slightly.
use the same amount of butter that you would use margarine as for the flatness of the cookie that really doesn't have much to do with the oil used, try adding the baking soda at the end of the preparation.
You will get a much different finished product. Since oil is a liquid and butter isn't, cut the amount in half and some sort of cookie will result. For something like a sugar cookie, it would not work. For a cake like cookie, it probably will. I use oil instead of shortening in biscuits and that seems to work. You just have to experiment.