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Cookie butter (Dutch: ''speculoospasta'', Danish: ''trøffelmasse'') is a food paste made primarily from
Jan 29, 2011 The idea spread widely in part to a Belgian TV inventor show, called De Bedenkers ("The Inventors"). Two people presented a competing recipe to make a spreadable product out of
The spread gained a cult following in the United States in 2015. It is often served during holidays. Lotus
File:Dammsugare (cropped).JPG, ''Dammsugare'' (Sweden). Cookie butter wrapped in brightly green marzipan and dipped in dark chocolate.
File:Træstammer 4.jpg, A divided ''træstamme'' (Denmark), exposing the cocoa and rum flavoured cookie butter interior.
File:Romkugler (8099840177).jpg, ''Romkugler'' (Denmark). Cocoa and rum flavoured balls of cookie butter rolled in a variety of sprinkles.
File:Granatsplitter 2.jpg, ''Granatsplitter'' (Germany). Cocoa and rum flavoured cookie butter (with butter) covered in dark chocolate.
speculoos
Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spi ...
cookie crumbs (such as Biscoff
Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spic ...
in the United States and United Kingdom), fat (such as vegetable oil, condensed milk or butter), flour, and sugar. The ingredients are mixed until it becomes spreadable on a sandwich. In countries like Belgium
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, and France
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, it is a common alternative to nut butter
A nut butter is a spreadable foodstuff made by grinding nuts into a paste. The result has a high fat content and can be spread like true butter, but is otherwise unrelated. Nut butters include:
* Acorn butter
* Almond butter
* Cashew butter ...
and chocolate spread
Chocolate spread is a sweet chocolate-flavored paste which is eaten mostly spread on breads and toasts or similar grain items such as waffles, pancakes, muffins, and pitas.
Although it tastes, smells, and looks like chocolate, it does not solidif ...
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History
The idea is generally attributed to ''Oma Wapsie'', pseudonym of the Dutch Rita, who placed the recipe on her website in 2002.Hoe Oma Wapsie uw speculoospasta uitvond ('How Grandma Wapsie invented your cookie butter')Jan 29, 2011 The idea spread widely in part to a Belgian TV inventor show, called De Bedenkers ("The Inventors"). Two people presented a competing recipe to make a spreadable product out of
Speculoos
Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spi ...
cookies: chef Danny De Maeyer who already filed a patent at that time, and Els Scheppers. Lotus, the biggest brand of Speculoos (known as Biscoff
Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spic ...
in the US) cookies, bought her idea and brought it to market. They also bought De Maeyer's patent in 2009, so as to seal the market.
On January 20, 2011, a court of commerce in Ghent
Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...
, Belgium, denied the patent
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention."A p ...
because the recipe had already been published on a Dutch website prior to its production.
Today, with the monopoly lifted, cookie butter is available under many brands, including ''Lotus Biscoff'' and ''Trader Joe's Speculoos Cookie Butter''.
In the United States
The spread gained a cult following in the United States in 2015. It is often served during holidays. Lotus Biscoff
Speculoos (sold as Biscoff in the United States and the United Kingdom) is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium. Although the name is similar to speculaas, speculoos is a different product. The biscuits are made without the mixture of spic ...
Cookie Butter is the most recognizable brand. However, Trader Joe's
Trader Joe's is an American chain of grocery stores headquartered in Monrovia, California. The chain has over 569 stores across the United States.
The first Trader Joe's store was opened in 1967 by founder Joe Coulombe in Pasadena, Californi ...
Speculoos Cookie Butter is quite popular as well.
Various types
In Scandinavia, a different kind of cookie butter has been used to make confectionery cakes for many years. It usually has a very thick consistency and is flavoured with cocoa and liquor. In Sweden, cookie butter is the main ingredient in ''dammsugare'' (Punsch-roll
Punsch-roll (Swedish: dammsugare) is a Swedish small cylindrical pastry covered with green marzipan with the ends dipped in chocolate, with an interior consisting of a mix of crushed biscuits, butter, and cocoa, flavoured with punsch liqueur.
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s). The buttery paste is flavoured with cocoa and punsch
Punsch (or ''punssi'' in Finnish) refers to a specific type of alcoholic liqueur and punch popular in Sweden and Finland. It is most frequently described as ''Swedish Punsch'', and while historical variations have also been called , , and , punsc ...
, wrapped in a thin sheet of marzipan
Marzipan is a confectionery, confection consisting primarily of sugar, honey, and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract.
It is often made into Confectionery, sweets; common uses are chocolate-covered marzi ...
and dipped in dark chocolate. The marzipan is usually coloured brightly green.
In Denmark, cookie butter is known as ''trøffelmasse'' 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 or jams. For the jam, apricot or raspberry is the preferred ingredient.
See also
*List of cookies
This is a list of notable cookies (American English), also called biscuits (British English). Cookies are typically made with flour, egg, sugar, and some type of shortening such as butter or cooking oil, and baked into a small, flat shape.
Cooki ...
* Petit-Beurre
The Petit Beurre, or Véritable Petit Beurre, also known under the initials VPB, is a kind of shortbread from Nantes, that is best known in France in general and especially in Pays de la Loire. It is the Petit Beurre of the LU company, which has ...
* Butter cookie
Butter cookies (or butter biscuits), also known as Danish biscuits, are cookies originating in Denmark consisting of butter, flour, and sugar. They are similar to List of shortbread biscuits and cookies, shortbread cookies.
The butter cookie is ...
* Speculaas
Speculaas (, , , , ) is a type of spiced shortcrust biscuit baked with speculaas spices.
Speculaas is usually flat in the shape of a picture and is especially popular around the feast of St. Nicholas and during the time of Advent. The old ...
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