What's the difference between shortening and butter when making chocolate chip cookies?

I want to make mine thick and and chewy. Would shortening help?What's the difference between shortening and butter when making chocolate chip cookies?
As a long time Chocolate Chip Cookie baker I prefer to use shortening. Bake them at 350 degrees for only about 5 minutes. Add 1 Tablespoon Vanilla instead of the 1 teaspoon as called form in the recipe-also add extra shortening. Have you ever tried Butter flavored shortening? Happy Baking! :)What's the difference between shortening and butter when making chocolate chip cookies?
If you want them thick and chewy drop them on the cookie tray a little bigger. And only bake them till they get a little brown at the edges. Since when you take them out of the oven they continue to bake while on the cookie tray





Shortening might help make them a little softer since burns/cooks at a higher temp than butter.





But cookies made with butter just taste better IMO
shortening is the dreaded trans fat!! hydrogenated vegetable oil! don't use the stuff unless you have to... other than that i don't really know if it would make cookies any more chewy!! good luck! :)
Yes. Butter tends to make a crisper cookie. You won't get that rich butter taste, though.
Use shortening, not butter. Shortening will give more of a chewy texture. Be sure to only cook the cookies the aloted time.
To make cookies chewy use butter and don't bake them to long.I use butter now whenever I make cookies
yes..the cookies don't get stiff and crunchy. they stay chewy.
Shortening is a better bet for chewy cookies. Butter will make crispier cookies. You may want to try the Butter Flavored shortening as well. Soft cookies + butter flavor = happy family.
butter is semi - fat, and shortening in complete fat. That is why


shortening melts faster.