When Trader Joe’s released its Speculoos cookie butter, the entire world went wild, and rightfully so. The sweet + buttery spread is so addictive that we regularly eat it by the spoonful while watching our favorite nightly sitcoms. (Sorry, we’re not sorry.) But what else can we do with cookie butter other than spooning it directly into our mouths? The answer is A LOT, including baking fudgy brownies, whipping up creamy ice cream and brewing morning lattes.
1. Homemade Cookie Butter: If you’re feeling extra adventurous, grind up some ginger snaps and make your own cookie butter at home. Then, use it as a base for the 24 other delectable recipes that follow. (via Wine and Glue)
2. Cookie Butter Popcorn: Popcorn folded into a cookie butter + white chocolate mixture sounds absolutely ah-ma-zing to us. (via Onyx Brands)
3. Salted Chocolate Cookie Butter Bark: Chocolate chips and cookie butter are two of the five ingredients you’ll need to make this rich bark that will make a wonderful hostess holiday gift. (via Wine and Glue)
4. Cookie Butter Muddy Buddies: That’s right, homemade muddy buddys. Make sure to stock up on cookie butter and Nilla wafers for this one. (via Mama Miss)
5. Cookie Butter Balls: This 4-ingredient recipe yields 30 addictive cookie butter balls. Put some in a box and wrap them up for a yummy gift just about anyone will love. (via Living Better Together)
6. Speculoos Cookie Butter Frosting: A bittersweet chocolate cupcake is the perfect base for a sweet-yet-light cookie butter buttercream. (via Eat, Knit & DIY)
7. Fudgy Brownie With Cookie Butter Frosting: Fudge brownies are a crowd favorite, but you can up your brownie game by spreading on some homemade cookie butter frosting. Top with mini choco chips for an added crunch. (via Lauren’s Latest)
8. Softbatch Cookie Butter Brown Sugar Cookies: Forget the butter and white sugar for this recipe, because we’ve got Speculoos. You can also use Biscoff spread to bake up these utterly heavenly cookies. (via Averie Cooks)
9. Speculoos Pie: Speculoos pie filling + Biscoff cookie crust = the ultimate cookie butter pie. Serve the pie slightly frozen and drizzle with caramel to finish it off. (via Texanerin Baking)
10. Sugar Cookie Cookie Butter Bars: A sugar cookie layer, topped with a cookie butter layer, topped with a chocolate layer sounds like the most perfect dessert to ever exist. (via Wine and Glue)
11. Caramel Cookie Butter Bars: Do you prefer chocolate chip cookie bars instead? Try this recipe, complete with cookie butter and caramel sauce. (via Love From the Oven)
12. Cookie Butter Cookies + Drizzle: These cookie butter cookies are topped with a cookie butter drizzle. Yup… that just about covers it. (via Fabtastic Eats)
13. Cookie Butter Morning Buns: Craving cookie butter for breakfast? Bake up these morning buns — made with Pillsbury crescent rolls and Speculoos — in a flash. (via Lemon Tree Dwelling)
14. No-Bake Cookie Butter Cookies: For those nights you can’t be bothered to turn on your oven, make these no-bake cookie butter + quick cooking oats cookies instead. After all, who doesn’t love a chewy gooey cookie? (via My Tiny Oven)
15. Mocha Speculoos Cupcakes: These mocha cupcakes are made with buttermilk and sour cream, and the frosting is made with… you guessed it, cookie butter. Top it all off with chocolate-covered espresso beans. (via Your Cup of Cake)
16. Cookie Butter Latte: Start your day with this delicious cookie butter latte that’s made with instant espresso, soy milk and cinnamon and then topped with coconut whipped cream. (via One Ingredient Chef)
17. Cookie Butter Coffee Cake: There’s biscoff spread in the cake AND in the topping. Never will we ever complain about double cookie butter. (via Mostly Homemade Mom)
18. Cookie Butter Banana Bread: Make sure you get the creamy cookie butter for this out-of-this-world banana bread recipe. Drizzle it with cookie butter sauce to really send it over the edge. (via Girl Versus Dough)
19. Pumpkin Ice Cream Tart With a Speculoos Crust: This tart recipe calls for a Speculoos crust, but bind cookies together with some cookie butter before freezing or stir some into the pumpkin ice cream mixture for extra cookie-ness. (via Brit + Co)
20. Chocolate Biscoff Cups: Sorry, peanut butter cups. We’re stuffing our coco cups with cookie butter from now on. (via The Gunny Sack)
21. Cookie Butter S’mores: This s’mores recipe calls for crunchy cookie butter spread. Careful, these get reeeeeally melty! (via Sweet Treats & More)
22. Biscoff Fudgesicles: Milk, cookie butter and chocolate syrup are all you’ll need to create these rocketship-shaped fudgesicles. Make sure you save some for the kids ;) (via Miss in the Kitchen)
23. Cookie Butter Milkshake: And how could we forget the almighty cookie butter milkshake? Opt for slow-churned ice cream for a healthier option. (via Wine and Glue)
Are you crazy about cookie butter just like we are? Tell us which of these recipes you’re most excited to try in the comments below!
Samantha Andreacchi
A Bay Area native, Sam currently lives in Philadelphia and is loving the city of brotherly love. If she isn’t working, trying a new restaurant or window shopping on Walnut Street, she’s probably at home binging on Pinterest, making a mess in the kitchen (aka cooking) or trying to read three books at once.
