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9 Amazing Cookie Recipes Without Butter or Margarine

June 14, 2015 by overtimecook 18 Comments

These 9 amazing cookie recipes without butter or margarine will amaze you!

9 amazing cookie recipes without butter or margarine

It’s pretty impressive how much times have changed. In the nearly four years since I started my blog, margarine (the old go-to sub for butter in non-dairy cookie recipes) has gone from totally-acceptable to something that people avoid as much as possible. Yes, I still use margarine – but only in recipes where you simply can’t avoid it – like pie crust, frosting, etc. But lately, because I listen to my readers, I’ve been minimizing my use of margarine as much as possible. In fact, almost all of the cookie (and all!) recipes in my upcoming cookbook call for oil, not margarine, unless I simply couldn’t find a way to make it work.

So I decided to gather my cookies without butter or margarine together into one handy post for y’all. I know you keep asking for it, plus I want to make sure you don’t miss any of these delicious options!

 

Coffee Crinkle Cookies:

If you love coffee and you love cookies, you need to try these fabulously flavored crinkles. And of course…just oil!

 

Orange Glazed Orange Cookies:orange glazed orange cookies on overtimecook.com

The texture of these cookies is simply magical – you won’t believe you can get it with oil! Not to mention the amazing citrusy flavor that bursts from these cookies!

 

Pumpkin Spice Crinkle Cookies:pumpkin spice crinkle cookies

Pumpkin lends an incredible flavor and texture to any baked goods, and these pumpkin crinkles (made without butter or margarine, of course!) are no exception!

 

Cinnamon Apple Biscotti:Cinnamon Apple Biscotti on OvertimeCook.com

Delightfully different, you’re going to love the fall flavors of these biscotti.

 

Best Ever Chocolate Chip Cookies without Butter or Margarine:Chocolate Chip Cookies with no margarine or butter

The most popular cookie recipe on this blog, and for good reason. Everyone loves a great chocolate chip cookie recipe, and apparently, over a quarter of a million people are looking for cookie recipes without butter or margarine – and found these!

 

 

Oatmeal Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies:oatmeal peanut butter chocolate chip cookies on Overtime Cook

Loaded with so much goodness, you won’t even miss the butter or margarine in these cookies!

Peanut Butter Cup Cookiespeanut butter cup cookies on OvertimeCook.com

The flavors of your favorite candy, all combined into a dense, peanut-buttery, delicious cookie!

Fluffernutter Cookiesfluffernuter hamantashen3

Originally meant as hamantaschen, roll these cookies in a ball, stuff them with fluffernutter filling, and bake. You won’t believe how addictive these are!

 

Flourless Chocolate Tuiles

These wafer-thin chocolate cookies have a fun shape and a great taste. Best of all? They’re gluten-free!

Still looking for cookie recipes? There are a ton of them here.

Useful tools for cookies:

It’s important to use the correct tools in your kitchen, in general, and especially for cookies. Here are my three must-haves:

Medium cookie scoop: As always, when making cookies, I consider this a must-have for your kitchen. (A small cookie scoop is super handy to have around as well.)

Parchment paper: Spraying your cookie sheets can cause your cookies to spread too much – I always use parchment paper instead

Cookie sheets: Good quality cookie sheets are important for cookie baking. Don’t use the dark kind – they can cause the bottoms of your cookies to stick.

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Which of these cookie recipes are you going to try? I’d love to hear from you! -Miriam

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Filed Under: Cookies, Dessert Tagged With: Cookies, non-dairy, Recipes, round-ups


Comments

  1. Hannah F says

    June 14, 2015 at 11:02 am

    I have tried one of these, your chocolate chip cookie recipe and it was just mediocre. I tried it one more time because of the reviews; and it still lacked something. I will try these other recipes- I really like butter and margarine alternatives in baking.
    Thanks for inspiring

    Reply
    • Candy Bandit!!! says

      March 20, 2017 at 1:47 pm

      I love peanut butter cup cookies ???

      Reply
  2. Sara says

    June 14, 2015 at 2:29 pm

    You wrote that pie crust won’t work without margarine.
    What do you think of this recipe? It has good reviews.
    http://www.food.com/recipe/perfect-oil-pastry-171806

    Reply
  3. Hope says

    June 15, 2015 at 10:47 am

    I have lots of vegan runner friends — can’t wait to try a few of these for a post-run treat. Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  4. Sarah says

    June 15, 2015 at 10:24 pm

    What an awesome collections! I really like baking without margarine! Thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  5. Me says

    August 13, 2015 at 10:57 am

    Your chocolate chip cookies are amazing!!!! They are the only chocolate chip cookie we will ever make! All the other ones I’ve made in my life don’t come anywhere near it! I’ve added your recipe into chocolate chip cookie brownies pie, and chocolate chip cookie cheesecake. Amazing!! I have passed the recipe on to many many people . Thank you so much!

    Reply
  6. Annie says

    September 10, 2015 at 3:11 pm

    Currently in the process of making your coffee crinkle cuts, and they smell incredible! Will report back!

    Reply
    • Sana says

      December 21, 2015 at 8:21 am

      You never reported back 🙁 please do! Dh

      Reply
  7. Sara says

    September 29, 2016 at 2:01 am

    They don’t sell muzon products in Israel. What can I do to my diced apples to make them usable in this recipe?
    Thanks
    Sara

    Reply
    • overtimecook says

      September 29, 2016 at 11:05 am

      Use diced apple chips for best results.

      Reply
  8. Mrsrice11 says

    January 2, 2017 at 7:05 pm

    Your chocolate chip cookies are the best ever!!!!! Thank you

    Reply
  9. Nadia says

    January 21, 2017 at 3:48 am

    we have none that only got got flour vanilla essence eggs sugar what you know about that?any help

    Reply
  10. Louise Telfer says

    May 11, 2017 at 10:19 am

    When you say flour is it plain or self-raising?

    Reply
    • overtimecook says

      May 16, 2017 at 11:13 am

      Plain

      Reply
  11. Caroline says

    July 29, 2017 at 11:23 am

    Just pulled these from the oven and they look beautiful! Like magazine food stylist beautiful! The texture is crisp, crumby, and tender on the inside. Best choco. chip cookies I ever made. Im glad I didn’t have any butter 🙂

    Reply
  12. Lori says

    October 6, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    We just made the Oatmeal Peanut butter chocolate chip cookies. The dough was a little crumbly so we carefully used our hinged scoop to put them on baking sheet. They didn’t spread out much, which is nice. I baked for 9 min, took them out, pressed them down just a little bit and baked another 3-4 minutes. Carefully took them off baking sheet to and they set up nicely. They are very tasty! We printed the recipe and will make again. Trying to think why they are a bit crumbly in the raw dough stage tho. Thanks for the recipe!!

    Reply
  13. Esther apel says

    December 16, 2018 at 5:06 pm

    Would like to make the coffee cookies . Would they work out without rolling them in any kind of sugar?

    Reply
  14. Sally says

    September 3, 2019 at 8:35 pm

    Can butter flavored crisco be substituted for the oil in your cookies? I’m not much on oil so when I run out of butter I need another way to make cookies….my jar must have cookies in it lol. thanks so much

    Reply

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