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Main ingredients Spice cookie, fat, sugar Variations Other crumbly cakes, additional ingredients (cocoa, liquor, coconut, oats, jams) Similar Speculaas, Butter pie, Buttery, Pozharsky cutlet, Gooey butter cake | ||
How to make homemade cookie butter eat the trend
Cookie butter (Danish: Trøffel-masse) is a food paste made primarily from Speculoos cookies crumbs; fat such as vegetable oil, condensed milk or butter; flour and sugar. The ingredients are mixed until it becomes spreadable like nut butter.
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In the USA
The spread gained a cult following in the United States in 2015.
It is often served during holidays.
Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter is quite popular.
In Scandinavia
In Scandinavia, cookie butter has been used to make confectionery cakes for many years. It is most often flavoured with cocoa and liquor.
In Sweden, cookie butter is the main ingredient in Dammsugare (Punsch-rolls). The buttery paste is flavoured with cocoa and punsch, wrapped in a thin sheet of marzipan and dipped in dark chocolate. The marzipan is usually coloured brightly green.
In Denmark, cookie butter is known as trøffel-masse and is used for many traditional confectionery cakes such as studenterbrød, romkugler (known as trøfler in some parts of the country) and træstammer (a bit similar to the Swedish dammsugare) on sale in most bakeries. The cookie butter is mostly flavoured with cocoa and often includes other types of crumbled cakes. It is sometimes mixed with shredded coconut, rolled oats and/or jams. For the jam, apricot or raspberry is the preferred ingredient.