Sarah, The short answer is that, yes, you can substitute butter for shortening in cookies. It will, however, change the texture and appearance of the end product. Because shortening is 100% fat and butter is roughly 85% fat and 15% water, cookies with butter in them tend to spread more during baking.
Usage: Yang is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Yang are in general originating from China, France, South Korea, United States of America.
Popularity of the Name. The name Yang is ranked on the 2,274th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used. We estimate that there are at least 170000 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.003% of the population. The name Yang has four characters. It means that it is relatively short-length, compared to the other names in our database.