Homemade Cookie Butter Recipe - My Whole Food Life (2024)

FAQs

What makes cookie butter? ›

Cookie butter (Dutch: speculoospasta, Danish: trøffelmasse) is a food paste made primarily from speculoos cookie crumbs, fat (such as vegetable oil, condensed milk or butter), flour, and sugar. The ingredients are mixed until it becomes spreadable on a sandwich.

A few substitutes for cookie butter include peanut butter, almond butter, sunflower seed butter, tahini or cashew butter. To approximate the sweetness of cookie butter, you can experiment with mixing your preferred nut butter with honey and ground warming spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and/or ginger.

It is high in calories and sugar, and therefore not a good option for diabetics. Consuming too much sugar can cause blood sugar levels to spike, which can be dangerous for diabetics. Additionally, it is high in saturated fat and trans fat which are not healthy for diabetics.

Ingredients. Biscoff cookies (Wheat flour, Sugar, Vegetable oils [contains one or more of soybean oil, sunflower oil, canola oil, palm oil], Brown sugar syrup, Sodium bicarbonate [leavening], Soy flour, Salt, Cinnamon], Canola oil, Sugar, Soy lecithin, Citric acid.

While The Good Batch's Anna Gordon does have a preference for European-style butter in most cases, she does say, "For cookies and cakes, where so many other ingredients are competing for flavor, I find generic American, unsalted butter, to work just fine."

But before we ever snagged a jar off grocery shelves in the U.S., it was better known as speculoos spread and made from traditional European holiday cookies. So, how did cookie butter emerge from relative obscurity and become something we eat by the spoonful nightly on our couches?

Considering the above point, it's a wonder that cookie butter isn't loaded with sugar and fat. There are only 90 calories in one serving (a tablespoon), six grams of fat, and only five grams of sugar. The only real downside is that unlike peanut butter, cookie butter offers virtually no protein.

When does cookie butter expire? Unopened cookie butter can last up to a year in your pantry, so long as it is stored in a cool, dry place. Once you crack the jar open, cookie butter is generally good for about two to three months. Be sure to check the manufacturer's label as it can vary.

Cookie Butter is 'Healthier' than Nutella

Listen it's not an apple, so we're not talking about your breakfast foods here, but Cookie Butter is actually a great substitute when you're looking for something sweet and creamy without the extreme sugar rush! Cookie butter is roughly half the amount of sugar in Nutella.

As you can see above, there are very subtle differences between cookie butter and Biscoff spread. They are both very popular and sometimes hard to find. Price wise, they are almost the same in value. Taste wise, cookie butter is more sweet but Biscoff spread is more smooth and rich.

What do you eat cookie butter with? ›

You can store and serve homemade cookie butter at room temperature for much of the year, but you'll need to take some precautions when your kitchen gets especially hot or cold. In warmer months, you may need to keep it in the fridge, then allow the cookie butter to soften at room temperature prior to use.

Traditionally, butter cookies are made with very simple ingredients: flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla extract.

Butter's high fat content is also what gives baked goods their texture. Margarine, which can contain more water and less fat, may make thin cookies that spread out while baking (and may burn). Butter is also the better choice for frying.

I am happy to report they are in fact the same thing. As Lotus Biscoff explains on their website, Biscoff cookie butter was originally invented because Belgian people kept eating the cookies on bread, as if it were already a spread.

Cookie butter is made from grinding Biscoff cookies down with butter, cream, etc until it is a smooth paste. (I actually have a recipe for homemade cookie butter if you're interested!) Cookie dough is the batter that is used to bake cookies from.