Crab cookies

[pandaincognito]

So I'm going to try to make crabby cookies. But I have a few questions for our veterans.

So traditional cookie recipe call for butter. Because of my personal distaste for vegetable oil based butters, I keep real, cream, butter at all times to cook with. Unsalted, of course. Would this be okay?

If not, perhaps plain old vegetable oil?

Can I use kosher salt as a preservative? (I dont cook with iodized table salt, just kosher salt. No clumping agents)

If salt is not an adequate preservative. What are some organic, crab safe alternatives to this?

Tips and tricks would be great if you have them. ^^ if not I am totally cool with experimenting. Im very good at failing.

[CallaLily]

The times I've baked for my crabs I've used homemade dog treat recipes as guides. Many called for coconut oil or olive oil. Those would probably be perfectly good substitutes for butter.

[pandaincognito]

^•^ awesome, I have both those pills as well lol

[pandaincognito]

Oils not pills

[Jedi Sena]

Unsalted butter would be fine. Are they going to have a sweetener? I'd go with molasses (unsulfered, unfiltered if you can get it) or honey---or just use unsweetened apple sauce. If you don't have Himalayan pink salt, then I'd use the same salt you make their water with. If you let them dry out really well (crunchy cookies), then you wouldn't really need salt to preserve them. Or make soft chewy cookies and freeze them.

Maybe you just mean biscuit. ?

[pandaincognito]

I think maybe a biscuit would be better. They seem to like the foods that are easy to break apart more so than anything. I di not have himilayan pink salt, but I have plenty if instant ocean. Taking some of the salt wont make much of a dent in ny supply. I was going yo make some with honey and some with coconut sugar to see which they prefer, but put molasses in the majority because they really like that stuff.