In making oatmeal raisin cookies, can I use 1 cup of olive oil to replace the 2 sticks of butter?

No, don't try it. Look for a recipe that uses those alternate ingredients in the first place. Oil doesn't perform the same way in baking as butter does, and apple juice concentrate has water whereas sugar does not. That could give you a completely different result. Baking recipes are like chemical formulas, with carefully balanced ingredients to give the right results. You could google "sugar free oatmeal cookies" to see if there are any with sugar substitutes or alternates. You could use soft margarine to replace the butter and it will give a very similar result.

In case you didn't realize it, olive oil or any vegetable oil has more calories per tablespoon than butter, because butter also contains some water. Oil of any kind is pure fat. Apple juice has sugar in it, otherwise it wouldn't be sweet. As far as calories go, sugar is sugar. If you're really concerned about calories, best to forget the cookies entirely. No one needs cookies. Those of us older folks who go by that rule don't tend to have the health problems you mention. I've been eating all the butter I feel like for 58 years now and I'm slimmer than many of the teenagers and young adults I see around. I weigh 20 lbs more than I did when I was 12 years old and not finished growing. I don't have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, and so far no diabetes.

It won't work. The sugar cuts tiny holes into the butter, which create the structure, or crumb, of the cookie. Using olive oil will make a mess. Eliminating the sugar will make a mess. Try something else, or eat just one or two cookies and give the rest away.

One problem you will have with using olive oil is your cookie batter will be runnier than it should be,another problem you will have is the taste.Olive oil taste like olives..you might try almond butter instead...regarding the apple juice instead of sugar.again you are adding a liquid.try a raw sugar .

My guess is you would mess up the cookies. Try something like spenda and smart balance butter.

I personally would use real butter and real sugar. Artifical things aren't worth the health risk. Stick with simple ingredients. You say you don't want sugar but the juice has fructose which is sugar. Just use less sugar.

There are somethings better than a quickie. Slowly making love to a good oatmeal raisin cookie (or dozen) is one of them. They told you that you were being a jerk yesterday. Next time hear them, m'kay?

As Olive Oil doesn't really have a neutral flavour, It would probably throw off the taste, plus it is heavy.

Why do you want to substitute the formula for something else?? Recipes are evolved from decades of trying different things to make them. Don't you think there would be a recipe using the ingredients you want to use if it ever worked??

Please read this paper:

http://www.drcranton.com/nutrition/oiling.htm

Sure but im prtty sure they wont come out as cookies!