You need to try these easy and delicious Butter-less Chocolate Chip Cookies! Baked with oil instead of butter, these cookies come out perfect every time!
Butter-less chocolate chip cookies, what else can I say? I conducted an experiment last night… I tried making chocolate chip cookies without using butter. Why? Because most of the time when I use all butter in my cookie recipe, they turn out flat and cake-like.
I thought about all the different fats I could use in a recipe; butter, crisco or oil… so I opted to give oil a try.
To my amazement, the cookies baked very nicely! They taste delicious and they’re not even close to cakey or dry. Yay for a delicious butter-less chocolate chip cookie recipe!!
How to make Butter-less Chocolate Chip Cookies – Step by Step
In a few simple steps, you will have some delicious butter-less chocolate chip cookies to eat!
First, combine the dry ingredients in one bowl (flour, baking powder and salt).
In another bowl cream together the oil and sugars and add the eggs, one at a time along with the vanilla and almond extract.
Mix the dry ingredients with the wet, and fold in the chocolate chips. Spoon onto a baking tray and bake in a preheated oven for 8 or 9 minutes.
Cookies with oil instead of butter
Making cookies with oil instead of butter is definitely something you need to try if you haven’t already!
The oil gives the cookies a cake-like crumb texture and because of the high-fat content they stay wonderfully moist.
It’s also a great way to enjoy cookies if you have intolerances to dairy.
What can I use instead of butter in cookies?
For this recipe, I used vegetable oil to replace the fat from butter – it has a neutral flavor, and there’s always some hanging around in most kitchens!
Oils have a higher content than butter, so it is often not a straight swap, you only need to use about 3/4 of the amount called for.
If you are into experimenting in the kitchen, here are some other substitutes you can make (note I only used vegetable oil in my recipe and haven’t tried these variations!)
- coconut oil
- olive oil
- shortening
- applesauce
- soy margarine
Perfect Butter-free Chocolate Chip Cookies
I was so happy with how these delicious butter-free cookies turned out, and with no added effort! It’s so easy to make the dough, and the process is really straight forward so you can whip up a batch in no time at all!
I can’t wait to hear what you think of this recipe!
Top tips for making Butter-less Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Line your baking sheet with parchment or use a silicone mat so your cookies don’t stick to the pan.
- Add the eggs one at a time and mix them well.
- Space the cookies far enough apart on the baking sheet so they don’t spread into each other when they cook.
- Use an ice cream scooper to portion out the dough on the baking sheet for evenly baked cookies.
- Let the cookies cool on a rack before serving them.
More cookie recipes for you to try!
My Favorite Chocolate Cherry Cookies
Gingerbread Spice Sugar Cookies
Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies
Fruitcake Cookies with Candied Fruit and Nuts by The Spruce Eats
Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe by Sugar Spun Run
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Butter-less Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp almond
- 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside.
- In a mixing bowl cream together oil, brown sugar and white sugar.
- Beat in eggs one at a time, then add in the vanilla and almond extract.
- Blend in dry ingredients and fold in the chocolate chips.
- Bake for 8 to 9 minutes and then let them cool on the pan before moving them to a wire rack.
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yum these look delicious!! And how interesting that you didn’t use butter. I’ll have to try! (LOVE the milk bottle hehe)
I am going to give these a shot!! Looks Yummy!
Followed each ingredient amount suggested and they came out too oily. Definitely cut the amount of oil in half.
These are great, they taste good too! I used sea salt and dark chocolate chips instead. Cooking them was so easy, I also used a hand mixer super easy.
Yay! Thank you for sharing Brenna!
Oh my goodness… those look AMAZING!
I form my cookie dough into balls and freeze them. Then I put them straight from the freezer into the oven, and they don’t get so flat. Plus, I can pull a frozen ball of dough from the freezer and have a fresh-baked cookie whenever I want.
But your butter-less cookies DO look amazing… 🙂
These turned out wonderful! I made them into a giant sheet cookie to save time (cooking for a big group) and they were perfect. Thanks for the great recipe!
Wow!!!!!!!!! Love this recipe, I didn’t feel like going to buy butter, this was perfect and all the kids in the neighborhood loved the cookies!!!!! Again “WOW” Great Recipe!!!
weeeee!!!!! im technically baking it nw!!!! cant wait to taste it….yummyyyyy!!!! =)
I stumbled upon this blog/recipe today after I discovered I didn’t have any butter but a strong desire for chocolate chip cookies. They turned out AMAZING! This is my new chocolate chip cookie recipe! Thank you so much!
these were GREAT !! I was skeptical at first, as the oil and sugars looked like a body scub I have.. but all in all they came out great
Just pulled out a batch, and they look delicious! Thanks!
excellent dairy-free alternative!
Very happy with the look, taste, and ease of this recipie! Thanks for sharing!!!
These were amazing (even without chocolate chips)! Everyone loved them so much I’m being forced to make more… And print out the recipe!
They tasted great, but were crumbly and hard to form into balls!
Great recipe! I just did a variation since I have a non-chocolate eater and no vanilla. I used almond extract and about 2 cups of sliced almonds. They’re awesome.
I made a double batch of the butterless cookies for my family and they looked amazing and taste equally as great. I only have one issue with them…I followed the directions to the T, and was curious if they are supposed to smell so strongly of oil.(opened brand new bottle of Veggie oil) It was hard to get past that smell.
I made a double batch of the butterless cookies for my family and they looked amazing and taste equally as great. I only have one issue with them…I followed the directions to the T, and was curious if they are supposed to smell so strongly of oil.(opened brand new bottle of Veggie oil) It was hard to get past that smell.
I made a double batch of the butterless cookies for my family and they looked amazing and taste equally as great. I only have one issue with them…I followed the directions to the T, and was curious if they are supposed to smell so strongly of oil.(opened brand new bottle of Veggie oil) It was hard to get past that smell.
These are amazing! For some reason, the almond is quite overpowering and my partner says it tastes like mushrooms?! He has strange tastebuds though.
Mine didn’t spread like yours, wondering what went wrong? Mine all held their shape exactly as I moulded them onto the cookie sheet…
I only used 1/2 cup of vegetable oil and added another 1/2 cup of sour cream. It really improves the texture in baked goods. I also used white chocolate and lemon baking chips instead of semi-sweet. Great cookies! So glad that I could find a recipe after I realized I was out of butter!! 🙂
these sound fantastic! i’m going to half the recipe because its just me eating 🙂 i hope my turn out as yummy as those ones look! thank you!
thank you! I am a fourteen year old on my last day of summer vacation so i decided to celebrate with cookies. My parents were both at work and I wanted to surprise them, but we had no butter! I used this recipe and it worked awesomely. I also use your little cookie tool~ great minds think alike, if i may compliment myself.
Awww!!! Thank you so much 🙂 I am so happy they worked for you and that you were able to surprise your parents! Hope school is going well!! Thank you for the very sweet comment!! Made my week!
Is it possible to substitute the baking soda with anything?
You could try baking powder, but I’m not really sure how that would turn out!
Could I possibly substitute for/leave out the almond extract?
try vanilla extract
These are amazing! Such a cute website! xx
Thank you!!
I don’t know why but my batch were terrible. They would barely come off the cookie sheet, were a strange consistency, and the almond was over powering.
Sorry to hear Rachel! Wish I could have helped!
I love this recipe. My mom wanted cookies to put in her new cookie jar and we didn’t have any butter laying around so I found this. I kinda made it my own by adding almonds in half of the batter. They look and taste amazing! I did pretty good for being 14! You are awesome!
Yay!! Awesome job Jasmyn!! So happy they turned out yummy for you and your mom! Love the idea of adding almonds too… great work!!
Thank you! I found a new recipe to make for Thanksgiving! Thank you so much!! Keep making AWESOME recipes!
i thought they were great!i am ten and i cant make a lot of stuff but these were mostly easy
I made mine for breakfast and they were amazing! I’m twelve and the directions were very easy to follow. It’s the first time I baked something on my own, I ended up SUCCESSFUL!!!
How many does this serve? Thanks! x
depends on how big or small you make them 12-18 usually
Do you grease the cookie sheet
You can yes! or use parchment paper
Is almond extract necessary?
four stars
I had tried this cookies recipe yesterday, they turned amazing
I have tried many recipes in the past I never had a result like this, this one is quick easy with few ingredients, The whole family was happy
I don’t make any change, the recipe is perfect
Thank you
Tried these today. Easy recipe and so delicious! Thank you
Love to hear this! Thank you!
I tried out this recipe but they kept coming out unbaked, so I would put them back in for a few more min and when its cooked, its like a bit of a crumble 🙁
These were absolutely amazing! The best cookie recipe I’ve tried so far that requires no butter. This is definitely going to be my go-to recipe for when I’m craving cookies but I don’t have butter on hand. You are a wonderful human being for coming up with these! <3
Yay! Thank you Ashley! So happy you liked them… they are one of my favorites!! You don’t even miss the butter!
Very good recipe! I tried them, I put 1/3 cup less sugar in total and only had 1/3 cup of brown sugar left so I used that in addition to white sugar. I would put a little less salt in these cookies. The shape comes out phenomenal, they are a good cookie recipe if you are gifting cookies. I added a couple table spoons of cocoa and some chopped almonds to half of the batter which also turned out great. OH and after the original 9 minute bake time i did broil for about a minute in a half to give the tops of the cookies a bit more colour. But overall, a great recipe , its going in the recipe collection!
Love hearing this! What a great idea to broil too! Never thought about that!
Just made them and came out delicious!! Definitely a keeper, tasted like store bought frozen dough cookies. The recipe says to bake for 8-9 min. I did 10 and was perfect.
Thanks so much!
We love hearing this! Thank you so much for sharing and I’m so happy these worked out for you!
Made these today, and they are the first cookie recipe that worked!!! Will definitely be my go-to cookie recipe. Thanks!
Love these cookies and I like how they didn’t have to have butter!!!!
Yay! So happy you loved them!
I didn’t have brown sugar so just put one cup of white sugar and I put a drop less oil than a cup but they came out AMAZING! Nice late night snack for me and the hubby!
Oh good to know!! Thank you for sharing! The perfect late-night snack if you ask me, haha!
Chocolate chip cookies are awesome! I always make mine with butter. Will give this a shot sometime!
Beautiful cookies & delicious!! Who knew oil would make such yummy cookies! Making these more often!
The texture of these cookies looks perfect!
This is great I didn’t have chocolate chips but just made the dough and it actually turned out better then the ones I made the other day with butter and ended up softer also I give this 100 out of 1 to 10 thank saving the recipe in case I forget it next time
Very confused. Followed the recipe exactly and mine came out like giant puffballs. They look absolutely nothing like yours, they are smooth, a weird consistency and puffy (didn’t spread, just rose up).
Instead of vegetable oil I like to use coconut oil (it adds nice flavor:). Should I melt it and then measure it or just measure it while it’s hard?
You should melt the coconut oil that tastes better for me
I liked this recipie but it was just to oily and hard
Really nice! Took quite a bit longer to cook than the recipe said – think I made them a bit big, but came out really well.
Just made these cookies and they are AMAZING!!! My two sons and husband (and I) love them. I was low on butter which inspired me to find a “butteries” recipe – and these are actually better than cookies I’ve made with butter. Thanks for making this recipe available.
Also, one batch I timed correctly and the second batch I forgot about – even slightly over-baked, they’re still great!! No fail recipe – that’s my kind of baking. 🙂
Yay! We are so happy you loved them!! They really are SO good! The oil makes them so chewy and delicious!!
These turned out great! Would definitely recommend making them!
Such a great cookie recipe!
These have me craving a chocolate chip cookie!! Love this butter-less option! They are chewy & chocolate-y & really are perfect!