Who does like yummy sugar cookies? In general, sugar cookies always go hand in hand with butter. This makes people who don't or can't eat butter so disappointed. Here come your saviors - sugar cookies without butter! Here are 4 great recipes that help you learn how to make tasty sugar cookies that has no butter in it.
1. Stir and Drop Sugar Cookies
These sugar cookies without butter are easy to make, but their flavor will not let you down. All that flour and sugar work together simultaneously for a purpose greater than anyone can imagine.
Ingredient
Ingredient |
Amount |
Sugar |
3/4 cup |
Vegetable oil |
2/3 cup |
Baking powder |
2 teaspoons |
Vanilla |
2 teaspoons |
Salt |
1/2 teaspoon |
Egg |
2 |
All-purpose flour |
2 cups |
Time & Serving
Total Time |
8 to 10 minutes until light brown |
Serving |
48 |
Direction
- Preheat your oven to 400 ºF. In a large bowl, mix 3/4 cup sugar, the oil, baking powder, vanilla, salt and eggs with a spoon. Stir in flour.
- Drop dough onto ungreased cookie sheet and make each teaspoonful of dough 2 inches apart. Press the bottom of a glass onto dough to grease, dip into additional sugar and press until proper thickness, about 1/4 inches.
- What you want to do next is to use a wet paper towel to wipe the bottom of the glass, dip it into dry gelatin and press it on the dough. Repeat until your desired color appears. you can use red and green fruit-flavored gelatins, if desired.
- Bake 8 to 10 minutes until light brown. Take them out, cool completely and serve.
2. Chewy Sugar Cookies Without Butter
Ingredient
Ingredient |
Amount |
All-purpose flour |
2 3/4 cups |
Baking soda |
1 teaspoon |
Salt |
1/2 teaspoon |
Margarine |
1 1/4 cups |
White sugar |
2 cups |
Egg |
2 |
Vanilla extract |
2 teaspoons |
White sugar |
1/4 cup |
Time & Serving
Total Time |
30 min |
Serving |
About 30 cookies |
Direction
- Preheat oven to 350 ºF. At that same time, stir flour, baking soda and salt together in a big bowl. Set aside.
- Mix cream, margarine with two cups of sugar together. Beat in eggs one by one, and then add the vanilla. Gradually stir in other dry ingredients.
- Cast the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar and roll the dough into walnut-sized balls on it. Place cookies two inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake your dough for 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until their edges are lightly browned.
- Let them sit for a while until they cool completely.
3. Great Oatmeal Cookie
Now, these great sugar cookies without butter are really good and can be prepared in only about 20 minutes. Feel tempted? Now know the recipe and try it.
Ingredient
Ingredient |
Amount |
Quick-cooking oats |
3 cups |
All-purpose flour |
1 cup |
Ground cinnamon |
1 tsp. |
Baking soda |
1/2 tsp. |
Ground nutmeg |
1/8 tsp. |
Firmly packed dark brown sugar |
1 to 1/2 cups |
Real mayonnaise |
3/4 cup |
Egg |
1 |
Vanilla extract |
2 tsp. |
Raisins |
3/4 cup |
Direction
- Preheat your oven to 350 °F.
- In medium bowl, combine oats with flour, cinnamon, baking soda and nutmeg.
- Use electric mixer to beat brown sugar, egg and vanilla for about two minutes.
- Gradually beat in oat mixture until blended and stir in raisins.
- On prepared baking sheets, drop dough by level tablespoonfuls, 3 inches apart.
- Bake 10 minutes or until golden. On wire rack, cool 2 minutes; remove from sheets and cool completely.
4. Soft Dairy-Free Sugar Cookies
Ingredient
Ingredient |
Amount |
Dairy-free margarine |
1 cup |
Granulated sugar |
1 to 1/2 cups |
All-purpose flour |
3 cups |
Sorghum flour |
3/4 cup |
Arrowroot powder/starch |
2 tsp. |
Salt |
1/2 tsp. |
Baking powder |
1/2 tsp. |
Vanilla extract |
2 tsp. |
Plain dairy-free milk alternative |
1/4 to 1/3 cup |
Royal Icing |
|
Confectioner's sugar |
2 cups |
Cornstarch |
2 tsp. |
Vanilla extract |
1/2 tsp. |
Water, as needed |
use sparingly |
Time & Serving
Total Time |
30 min |
Serving |
One Big Batch (about 2½ Pounds Dough) |
Direction
- As per usual when making these sugar cookies without butter, be sure to pull out that trusty stand mixer.
- In another bowl, sift the flour, sorghum and everything else together.
- After all that, add half of the dry ingredients into a mixing bowl, processing in the vanilla followed by ¼ cup of non-dairy milk with any remaining flour mixture. Continue to mix until the dough softens.
- Roll the dough into balls then stretch them out. Wrap separately in plastic and let decompress for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 ºF while the dough sits.
- On a floured surface, roll out one disk of dough and use cookie cutters of any shape you desire to design the cookies.
- Carefully transfer shapes you just cut out to baking sheets. Repeat this process.
- Cookies should be baked for about 8 to 12 minutes. When they are baked, let them cool and then store them in an airtight room at appropriate temperature.
- As for the icing, you should first combine the confectioner’s sugar, cornstarch with vanilla in a bowl. Add water teaspoon by teaspoon carefully and stir until it reaches a pipe-able consistency. It should be hardened within twenty-four hours.