How to Make Homemade Gluten-Free Cookie Butter (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

Homemade cookie butter is so easy to make! This Gluten-Free Cookie Butter recipe is vegan, allergy-free, and can be made with any cookies you have on hand! This healthy copycat of your favorite Trader Joe’s spread will be a new sweet treat or snack for the whole family to enjoy!

Cookie butter! Have you ever had it? I was gluten-free way before it became a trendy “thing” via it’s rise to Trader Joe’s stardom. It’s everything you love about cookies, but as a spread which you can slather on just about anything you want to make a little more…naughty. Think of it as a sugar/carb-based nut butter. A dessert spread for sure, but a scoop to tame the midnight munchies works too!

What is cookie butter?

Here in America, we know cookie butter as Trader Joe’s #1 most popular and top-selling product. A decadent spread made from crushed biscuit/shortbread cookies (Speculoos) and gingerbread spices, mixed with milk, oils, and sugar. Speculoos cookies are actually from the Netherlands/Belgium region of Europe, but all good things must come to the US! Biscoff spread is the same thing, but the European brand. Biscoff is oil-based though, while Trader Joe’s cookie butter is dairy-based. Another way to think about it is like Nutella. The Italian chocolate hazelnut spread. “dessert-style peanut butter”, if you will.

What can you do with cookie butter?

You may be thinking, “Rebecca, why don’t I just eat a cookie?”. Valid question, but why not take the cookie craving to a new level? Cookie butter is perfect for:

• Fruits (think apple slices!)
• Breakfast topping for pancakes, waffles, stuffed french toast, oatmeals and hot cereals
• A perfect edible gift to jar up
• Melt some over ice cream sundaes
• Bake it into breads, muffins, (stuffed) cookies, etc.
• Just grab a spoon a dig in!

How to make Gluten-Free Cookie Butter (with any cookie!)

You can use ANY crunchy cookie you have on hand and flavor it up with mix-ins and spices to your heart’s content! Just throw all your ingredients in a blender and blend things up until you get that prized “butter”. It couldn’t be any easier!

What you need to make homemade cookie butter:

• Crunchy Cookies
• Coconut Oil
• Sweetener
• Spices, Extracts, Add-ins

For Gluten-Free Chocolate Chip Cookie Butter:

• Enjoy Life Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies (or Double Chocolate Cookies)
• Coconut Oil
• Vanilla Extract
• Sweetener
• Extra Chocolate Chips….(if you want)

For Gluten-Free Sugar Cookie Spice Cookie Butter:

• Enjoy Life Crunchy Sugar Cookies
• Coconut Oil
• Cinnamon
• Ginger
• Allspice
• Brown Sugar Sweetener
• Vanilla Extract

For Gluten-Free Speculoos Cookie Butter:

• Enjoy Life Crunchy Honey Graham Cookies (not vegan)
• Coconut Oil
• Cinnamon
• Ginger
• Cloves
• Nutmeg
• Molasses
• Vanilla Extract

These DIY cookie butter formulas are an allergy-free, slightly healthier version of the Trader Joe’s spread you’ve been jealous of your friends without food allergies eating in front of you! It checks off all the boxes:

• Gluten-Free
• Vegan
• Allergy-free (Dairy-Free, Soy-Free, Egg-Free, Nut-Free, Peanut-Free, Wheat-Free, Sesame-Free, Corn-Free)
• Kid-Friendly
• Giftable
• Fun, Quick, & Easy to Make and Customize!

Storing your cookie butter:

It does not need to be refrigerated. The coconut oil will make it harden up if you keep it in the fridge. Room temperature in a jar is the way to go. It’s just like shelf-stable nut butter! Your cookie butter will be best if used within a month of grinding up (you’ll get bonus points if you can make it last longer than a day!)

If you want to make it super drippy, opt for a liquid/syrup sweetener and add additional water or liquid coconut oil. Having a super high-powered blender or food processor will help as well, just like when making homemade nut/seed butter.

Homemade Gluten-Free Cookie Butter

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Whether you want to finally be able to indulge in this Trader Joe’s copycat, blend some up to give as a holiday gift, or get creative in the kitchen with your kids, this sweet homemade treat is just the thing to make!

More edible gift recipes to try:

• Homemade Vegan Peppermint Bark
• Sesame Seed Crunch Candy
• Easy Gluten-Free Chocolate Covered Pretzels
• Cinnamon “Sugar” Pretzels

So tell me:

+ Have you ever (or did you ever) have cookie butter?

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