butter substitute?

[Fluffho]

i have a recipe for 'toffee bars'

delicious, barcookies.

with nuts, chocolate chips and raisins

but the main ingredients are butter and brown sugar, at 1 cupeach!!

then i think 1cup or so of flour.. then some baking soda

any ideas on how to lighten it up?

how much of thebutter do you think i couldsubstitute with butterspread?

id normaly experiment but maybe there are people more knowledgeable with this

[yonksgirl]

I would use crisco the butter flavored kind and welcome to the boards!!!

[Fluffho]

i never thought of that.... thanks!!

[Deana]

If you are trying to make them lighter, maybe just use half the butter? I know some 'light' recipes use apple sauce instead of oil/butter, but I wonder how that would taste...
good luck (and welcome to the boards!)

[Mel-icious]

If your looking to lighten, Crisco is just as bad if not worse.

In baking its a bit hard, it involves formulas so you have to be careful. D, is right, some use drained applesauce in place of some of the oil/butter in recipes, like brownies. It would change the texture of the cookie and the taste IMO and I wouldn't do it.

Sorry, I couldn't be more help.