What can be used instead of eggs or butter in a cookie recipe?

Answer 1

In many things you can use margarine, lard, or shortening instead of butter, or a combination of any of them. I actually use 1/3 butter, 1/3 shortening, and 1/3 lard for the fat in my homemade pie crust, which gives excellent results. Just keep in mind that margarine has a higher water content than butter, so depending on what you are baking, the results may be just a little different than with butter.

Answer 2

If the recipe calls for butter, and not margarine, then you should be able to use shortening. You can also add some butter flavoring to the recipe to still give it the butter flavor, if you want. Margarine has some water content, and will not give the same results as butter or shortening.

Answer 3

Instead of butter you could use margarine, but that is disgusting, due to the fact it has the same chemical structure as plastic. And there is nothing you could substitute with eggs. I would just stick with eggs and butter. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

The only substitute for butter is the tooth of a small child, a hair from an elephants trunk, and the blood from your enemy.

Answer 5

margarine