The equivalent volume of applesauce can be substituted for oil when baking. Buy the small "snack packs" of apple sauce, and invariably one tub has enough for one batch of cookies or brownies, etc. The lack of oil will not be noticed, and baked goods come out moist and healthier!
Noncook, Dianne, replied on 6/17/04:
This is very true.. If baby food applesauce, carrott's, squash, sweet potatoes, are on sale.. These work also.. Not as well as a fat replacement.. Yet.. They do work for a small serving cake when the bigger can's are too much.. I always have some on hand for cake's or cookies.. Squash bundt cake is a favorite around here..