Just don't do it. Even if you find a "more healthy" alternative to Crisco, you are left with a lot of white sugar and flour.

Taking real butter and whole wheat flour will make it a little healthier, but not better in regards of calorie intake.

There just is no real alternative to sugar, at least none that makes sense in terms of calories and healthiness.

I'd suggest that you take Butter as was written before, but leave the recipe alone otherwise. Better eat the good stuff if you really want to once a year than something that maybe resembles the Original somehow but not "really".

I know what I'm talking about... my family was on the diet/healthyness trip all my childhood. Instead of NOT baking cakes and cookies, they made different kinds of "strange tasting cake-lookalikes" that where neither really healthy nor really good.