These Butterless Chocolate Chip Cookies are the BEST no butter cookies around. This quick and easy recipe will substitute olive oil instead of butter.
They are absolutely my favorite dessert, especially the regular chocolate chip cookies. It’s got to be soft, chewy, and have a lot of melted chocolate inside and outside of the cookie. Yep, that is my type of dessert.
I’ve always leaned towards the more simple desserts, and I’m OK with that. It’s National Olive Oil Month, and Pompeian launched a pledge this month to substitute your recipes using olive oil instead of butter.
When I think of classic recipes using butter, I always come back to cookies. They are loaded with butter and are definitely as classic as you can get. I was a bit nervous experimenting with the olive oil in place of the cookies but got over my nerves once the cookies went into the oven and came out looking delicious. Next up was the taste portion of the cookies. How would they compare to cookies with butter?
The color of the cookies came out a little lighter than most cookies I bake, but the taste was spot on. I wanted others to taste the cookies so I could get a REAL and HONEST opinion about butter cookies vs. olive oil cookies. Most of the people couldn’t even tell that there was a difference, and they were shoveling them in so fast I don’t think they cared.
If you could substitute one recipe that uses butter with olive oil, what would it be?
Butter to olive oil conversion chart
ENJOY ~ Meagan
Butterless chocolate chip cookies
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons Pompeian extra virgin olive oil
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon cocoa powder
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 2/3 cup all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 cups semi sweet chocolate chip morsels
- 8 ounces ghirardelli 60% bittersweet chocolate baking bar, chopped into small chunks
- sea salt flakes for topping
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- In a large mixing bowl cream the olive oil and sugars. Then add salt, vanilla, cocoa, eggs, baking powder, baking soda and flour. Mix until well combined on low speed. Stir in the chocolate morsels and chocolate chunks.
- Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper. Use a cookie scoop to create cookie balls and place on baking sheet 2 inches apart from one another.
- Bake for 11-12 minutes and then remove from oven. Top each cookie with sea salt flakes. Cool for 2 minutes and then place on wire rack.
Share Your Butterless Chocolate Chip Cookie Creations with Me!
If you make these Butterless Chocolate Chip Cookies, I’d love to see your final creations on Instagram. Make sure to tag your recipes with #azbrecipes or #azestybiterecipes, so I’ll be sure to see them.