Your favorite dairy free "butter" substitute for baking

[Sneezykids]

Do you have a favorite?  I use Earth Balance and sometimes Flieshman's Light (sticks)...We're making Christmas cookies and I want them to turn out really good.  Last time I made chocolate chip cookies with EB, they were kind of....bland.  Any ideas?

[mntnmom]

coconut oil. A little pricey, but in most sweets the taste is great, and the texture is as nice as butter

[lyterae]

We use coconut oil also, I also just bought some spectrum shortening.

[Sneezykids]

The oil...do you sub cup for cup? 

[AllyRae]

We use earth balance, but increase the other types of favors (vanilla, or use sucanant or other really high quality flavorful sweetener).

[menomena]

Spectrum palm shortening. Cup for cup, it's great. And it has a really mild flavor. 

[lyterae]

Originally Posted by Sneezykids 

The oil...do you sub cup for cup? 

 That's how I do it, same with the shortening. I've made rolls and peanut butter cookies with the coconut oil and shortening, I'm planning on attempting sugar cookies this weekend. :)

[kittywitty]

I think the Earth Balance turns out really well. Is it your recipe? Overmixing always makes cookies bland.

[Sneezykids]

Thanks everyone.  I'm also making sugar cookies, cutouts. 

I usually have luck with the EB.  I think I added a bit of extra flour, I vaguely remember the dough looking too wet.  That is probably what happened...LOL...

[kittywitty]

I've done that before! This is the recipe I use. To the letter but replacing earth balance soy free for the butter and ghiradelli semisweet chips. It's absolutely the best cookies ever. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/dining/091crex.html

[riomidwife]

i use straight up olive oil, and generally don't use as much fat as is called for. sometimes i will mix olive and applesauce, or blend olive and coconut oil. personally i find too much coconut oil to be overwhelming.

[Splatt]

Try Melt Buttery Spread.  It works great - no flat cookies - and it is made from healthy oils.  They have a website www.meltbutteryspread.com that shows where you can purchase it.

[rhesp1212]

The Melt spread has dairy in it....just FYI!!

[menomena]

Originally Posted by Splatt 

Try Melt Buttery Spread.  It works great - no flat cookies - and it is made from healthy oils.  They have a website www.meltbutteryspread.com that shows where you can purchase it.

I am thinking this is a spam posting actually... One post only so far, including link. Person joined at 12:11 and posted at 12:15... Sad that they came to a thread about dairy-free butter, on an ALLERGY forum, and posted a link to a dairy-containing product. Okay, not only a dairy product, but dairy, soy & tree nut as well! Maybe I'm over-reacting, but this REALLY irritates me. 

Also, IMO, "healthy" and "soy" do not overlap. 

[Brees_Mama]

The Best Life spread! Love it!

[kjbrown92]

We use Spectrum palm shortening cup for cup in baking as well. I think the coconut oil one for one often doesn't work for baking, in the things I've tried, at least not without changing other ingredients.