Cornucopia of Creativity: Homemade Cookie Butter {Pink Cake Plate}

Hi Mom Endeav­ors read­ers! I am Laura and I blog over at Pink Cake Plate. I have been here before and I am so excited to be par­tic­i­pat­ing for the sec­ond year in the Cor­nu­copia of Cre­ativ­ity!! Thank you so much for hav­ing me! Today I am going to share a fun recipe/gift idea!!

So there has been a lot of buzz lately about Bis­coff But­ter and Specu­loos But­ter. Mr. Pinkcake­plate is crazy for Trader Joe’s Specu­loos But­ter!! Now, when I first heard about these “but­ters” I had no idea what they were made of, so I turned to “Google” to find out what they are. Ok are you ready for this? It is a peanut but­ter like treat made out of cook­ies!!! Step aside Nutella! I was on the Betty Crocker web site when I came across this recipe for home­made cookie but­ter. I made a few revi­sions and cre­ated a “Pink Cake Plate Cookie But­ter” and it is to die for!! I don’t like a real spicy cookie but­ter, so this one is a bit more on the vanilla side and less spicy!!

Here are a few of the ingre­di­ents. They are all pretty sim­ple and most you have in your pantry already. I found the Wind­mill cook­ies at the $$$ store so this recipe is pretty inex­pen­sive to make!

Place the cook­ies in your food proces­sor and pulse until they are a fine crumb.

Then add your cin­na­mon, salt and brown sugar pulse again. I then added the but­ter, vanilla and molasses and turned on the proces­sor and slowly poured the water in until it was the con­sis­tency I wanted.

That is it! Easy peasy!!

This would make great host­ess gifts! Here is the com­plete recipe:

Pink Cake Plate Cookie Butter

2 pack­ages Wind­mill cook­ies (found at the $$$ Store)
2 table­spoons packed light brown sugar
3 tea­spoons ground cin­na­mon
2 tea­spoons vanilla or 1 tea­spoon Vanilla But­ter Bak­ery Emul­sion
1 table­spoon molasses
2 table­spoons melted but­ter
1/2 t salt
1/4 to 1/2 cup water

In large food proces­sor, process cook­ies into fine crumbs. Turn off proces­sor. Add brown sugar, cin­na­mon, and vanilla; process until blended. Con­tinue to process while adding molasses and but­ter through spout.
With proces­sor run­ning, add just enough water so mix­ture becomes a creamy con­sis­tency (you might not use all the water). Add more water as needed until you reach desired tex­ture (it should be about the same as peanut but­ter).
Pour cookie but­ter into air­tight con­tainer. Store in refrigerator.

This makes about 1 1/4 Cups of yummy cookie butter!!!

Enjoy!!