Homemade Cookie Butter is easy to make. This delicious recipe has three ingredients and can be used to replace cookie butter in recipes!
What is Cookie Butter
If you’ve never had Cookie Butter before, think about peanut butter. Now take out the peanuts, and put delicious ginger snapish type cookies in its place. That is what you get with cookie butter. A delicious, gingersnap flavored dessert butter.
You can find it at Trader Joe’s labeled Cookie Butter. You can find it at WalMart, Target, Walgreens, and anywhere that has a decent international section of food (like World Market) as Biscoff Spread.
How to Make Homemade Cookie Butter
This is a brief overview of how to make this delicious recipe. For the full recipe with all of the measurements, see the recipe card at the bottom of the post.
- Grind up the gingersnap cookies. A food processor works best for this so that you get a very fine crumb.
- Add in the oil. You want to add it slowly so that it fully combines with the crumbs.
- Add in a little sugar.
- Let it sit. Transfer the cookie butter to a mason jar or other storage container and let it sit for at least 4 to 8 hours.
Homemade Cookie Butter Notes
- The consistency of homemade cookie butter and store bought is really different. Store bought is great with a spoon out of the container. While I wouldn’t do that with this, it works great as a replacement in recipes.
- Its helpful to use gingersnaps that are hard, because they will blend up better.
- When using this to replace store-bought cookie butter in a recipe, you can replace it one for one and it works really well. You can the Cookie Butter Butterscotch Fudge I made with the homemade version of cookie butter in the photos here.
Storing and Freezing
This recipe will store in an airtight container for up to two weeks. It can be stored at room temperature. As with all recipes, use your best discretion when it comes to leftovers.
This recipe also freezes well. Store it in an air tight container, with room for it to expand, in the freezer for up to three months.
Recipes to Use Homemade Cookie Butter
Homemade Cookie Butter
Ingredients
- 16 ounces ginger snaps store-bought harder cookies work best in this recipe
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
Instructions
- Grind the ginger snaps in a food processor until they are very fine.
- Add the vegetable oil slowly and lit it fully combine with the crumbs, scraping down the sides of the food processor as needed.
- Add the sugar.
- Put in a mason jar or other container and let sit for several hours (or overnight) before using in a recipe.
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Homemade Cookie Butter
Made with the help of this Oreo Butter Recipe and this Graham Cracker Butter.
Susie (The Esthetic Goddess) says
I, like so many others, have never heard of this before. It sounds yummy!
Peggy Shurling says
I am wondering if using a gluten free ginger nap (or any other GF cookie) would make any difference in the final product?
That is a great question Peggy! I don’t have a ton of experience with gf baking. BUT! I would think that you could get similar results, especially because when making the Homemade Cookie Butter, you are aiming for flavor WAY more than texture. So, if you have a gf ginger snap that you like, I would say go for it.
Lou says
I was in Costco this week and would you believe, Biscoff cookies and cookie butter samples galore. It was heaven. All your recipes mean I’ll be making yummy treats for the family and my hopes of losing a few squashed. I just can’t say no to cookie butter.
Isn’t it SO good, Lou? I know. I can eat by the spoonful :)
Sydney says
Do you think coconut oil could be used instead of vegetable oil?
Sydney, I have never used coconut oil, so I don’t know enough about it to know how it would work in this recipe. Sorry! If you give it a shot, let me know.
Tonya says
Biscoff is more of a brown sugar sweetened graham cookie butter but without ginger. TJ’s cookie butter does have a gingersnap taste and it seems more robust with the coconut that they add. So I adapted my own cookie butter with coconut oil and half graham crackers and half ginger snaps which makes the butter much smoother.
Tracy Spangler says
I am so glad to find another cookie butter addict! I purchased many jars of Biscoff European Cookie Butter to give to others as gifts for Christmas. After my first taste I realized I wasn’t sharing with anyone! Of course this addiction does not help my current plan to lose some weight, but I figure a little each day can’t hurt! Thank you for your recipe! I worried when my supply ran I would be hungry and also out of gifts for my family. Problem solved- I will make your fantastic recipe! Can’t wait to make it soon, and so glad you too have such cookie butter love, as your recipes made with it are amazing!