What is a healthy substitute for margarine when making chocolate chip cookies?

Margarine is a man made substitue for butter, which turns out is HEALTHIER than margarine.
Margarine is made w/chemicals, and is gross gross gross.
Try real butter instead.
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smart balance
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this might sound wierd, but you can actually use applesauce as a replacement for butter, or at least some of it. It the recipie calls for one stick of butter, add 1/2 a cup of butter and a 1/2 cup of applesauce. It has the same baking effects as butter and cuts the calories down significantly
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"Healthified" Chocolate Chip Cookies
21% fewer calories • 42% less sat fat • 14% less fat than the original recipe—see the comparison. Simple better-for-you changes help ease the guilt without losing an ounce of deliciousness! From eatbetteramerica.
Prep Time:50 min
Start to Finish:50 min
makes:3 1/2 dozen cookies

3/4 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup canola oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 egg
2 cups Gold Medal® whole wheat flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, beat sugars, butter, oil, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on low speed until blended. Beat in flour, baking soda and salt until well blended. Stir in chocolate chips.
2. On ungreased cookie sheet, drop dough by rounded measuring tablespoonfuls about 2 inches apart.
3. Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until very light golden brown (centers will be soft). Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack.
High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): No change.

Nutritional Information

1 Cookie: Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 50); Total Fat 6g (Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat 0g); Cholesterol 10mg; Sodium 65mg; Total Carbohydrate 13g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 9g); Protein 1g Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 0%; Iron 2% Exchanges: 1/2 Starch; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Vegetable; 1 Fat Carbohydrate Choices: 1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Try this experiment…. Leave a tub of margarine open in your garage, then forget about it. The next time you see a recipe that requires margarine, go to the garage and look at the margarine you left there. It will all be there. Flies wont touch it, and even cockroaches turn their noses up at it. Fact is, margarine is just one molecule away from being a plastic, literally.

Bottom line… even lard is healthier than margarine, even though you shouldn’t use it.

Butter, Smart Balance, applesauce, anything but margarine.
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Professional Chef

Use "I can’t Believe it’s not butter" in the sticks. Butter is probably healthier than margarine. But I can’t believe it’s not butter is even healthier than the butter because it has less saturated fat than the butter and no trans fat.
It should work out just fine.
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