5-Minute Cookie Butter Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is a substitute for cookie butter? ›

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.

What Goes Into Cookie Butter? Most cookie butter recipes are made with speculoos cookie crumbs (a spiced shortbread biscuit popular in Europe), vegetable oil, flour, and sugar. For homemade varieties the oil is sometimes swapped out with butter or condensed milk.

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.

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.

So for 1 cup of salted butter, trade 1 cup margarine or 1 cup shortening plus ½ teaspoon salt; ⅞ cup vegetable oil plus ½ teaspoon salt; or ⅞ cup lard plus ½ teaspoon salt.

Lotus brand produced the original jars of cookie butter, and it's probably the most well-known maker of speculoos cookies in the United States, too. This Belgian company started baking cookies in 1932, marketing its product as a perfect companion for coffee.

Cookie butter is a spread made from blending Belgian speculoos cookies, vegetable oil, cane sugar, and flour. The spread (and the cookies from which it is made) is known for its heavily spiced flavor, which comes from a mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, clove, anise seed, ginger, white pepper, and cardamom.

Speculoos, the cookie family to which Biscoff belong, are often described as a type of gingerbread, but that's a little misleading. Aside from their use of caramel sugar, speculoos don't have quite the same bite; their spice blend tends toward aroma rather than heat.

Speculoos (French: spéculoos, German: Karamellgebäck) is a biscuit, originally manufactured in Belgium, made from wheat flour, candy syrup (from beet sugar), fat, and sometimes cinnamon.

What flavor is Biscoff cookie butter? ›

It's spicy and rich, with a deep caramel flavor and the toastiness of freshly baked cookies, but with a creamy, buttery consistency. Cookie butter is readily available wherever Biscoff are sold, and you can buy similar versions from brands like Roland and Trader Joe's.

It's basically a cookie, but in spreadable form.

These biscuits are ground up and then mixed with vegetable oils to produce a spread that has a consistency similar to peanut butter.

cookie butter was discontinued. It was one of my. favorites.

But when you're baking, butter triumphs over margarine every time. For cakes, cookies, and pastries, butter (unsalted, that is) provides richer flavor. (It begins as cream, after all, and margarine is made from vegetable oil.) Butter's high fat content is also what gives baked goods their texture.

You can use salted butter instead of unsalted butter if that's all you've got — especially if you're making something simple like cookies where the chemistry of adding salt in a specific amount and at a certain time won't have a meaningful impact on the outcome (as it would with yeasted bread).

That being said: if you really like peanut butter and you're making this for yourself: go for it: the texture is about the same. I would add a bit of honey or jam to the peanut butter as well as cookie butter is a bit sweeter then peanut butter.

Butter is also a flavor powerhouse

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."