little recipe help, please

[Therese's Mommy]

I want to make some no bake cookies for dd's bday on Tuesday. I was thinking of following a recipe similar to this. I will use sunbutter in place of the peanut butter. But, what to do about the 1/2 cup of butter? Right now we do not have a safe semi-solid at room temp fat (except chicken fat, but somehow I don't think that would be good here ). Anyway, what to do? I don't think 1/2 cup of canola oil is the answer, or maybe it is as simple as that? How about just upping the sunbutter? Any thoughts or suggestions??

Thanks!

Beth

[DevaMajka]

Can you do flax?

If it were me, I might use sunbutter for half the oil, and canola for the other half. Or use flax for half, and oil for the other half.
And I'd just try half a batch at first to see how it worked. *disclaimer* I never said I was good at baking. lol. But I do love no bake cookies, and got pretty good at making the regular ones.


The cookies set because you heat the sugar, so I think a liquid oil would still work. I know that if you melt sugar, then add a small amount of water and boil it for a minute, you get caramel- it can get really hard depending on how much water you add.

[ASusan]

I used to make these with coconut oil and store them in the fridge. Worked very well.

Thanks for the reminder. I think I'll trial sunflower seed and, hopefully, get a chance to dust off the recipe for DS.

[Therese's Mommy]

We can't do coconut.

When you say flax are you suggesting ground flax seed or flax oil? For some reason I think it is bad to heat flax oil, but maybe I am mis-remembering.

[DevaMajka]

I was thinking ground flax. Good luck!!