Cookie Butter Cookies

Some might say I’m an overachiever.

I say, this is my only good excuse to bake cookies all year, so I’m going to take full advantage of it, gosh darn it!

So, yes. I baked three different types of cookies to send to TiAn of Unruly Bliss, Diana of Life Tastes So Good, and Laurie of Food is Love for this year’s Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap.

We were technically only supposed to bake one type of cookie, and send a dozen to each of our three matches.

But considering Son and I both work from home (no coworkers to fatten up) and neither Son nor I really eat that many sweets (ignore the fact that Son was ready to totally demolish this tres leches cake that I’ll be posting about soon), there just aren’t that many opportunities in my life to bake cookies.

Binge baking. It’s totally a thing.

Plus, have I mentioned that I got some pretty awesome cookies in return? Brittany of Life of a Bama Girl sent me some delicious Milano Cookies (which my mom promptly stole – these are one of her favorite types of cookies!) (I made something similar a few years ago).

Janet of Simply So Good sent some fantastic Almond Tartlettes. Son LOVED these.

In addition to the Sweetened Condensed Milk Cookies and Gooey Stuffed S’mores Cookies that I made, I also made these Cookie Butter Cookies from Willow Bird Baking.

These were my favorite.

Super easy to make (they’re like peanut butter cookies, except with cookie butter! Genius.), they result in lots of thin, crispy, gingerbread-y cookies. LOVE. (Also, I accidentally realized that if you let them sit out for a day or two and get a little stale, they get nice and soft, which is also wonderful.)

P.S. If, like me, you haven’t tried cookie butter up until now, just do yourself a favor and go buy a jar. I always roll my eyes when people are like, “ohmygawd this is lifechanging!”, but there’s a possibility I may make an exception here.

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup shortening
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/2 cup sugar, plus extra for rolling
• 1/2 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup crunchy cookie butter (Trader Joe’s Speculoos Spread or Biscoff Spread)
• 1 egg
• 1 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
• 3/4 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp baking powder

Cooking Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 375°F and cover two baking sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a large bowl, cream together the butter, shortening, and both sugars until light and fluffy (2-3 minutes). Add the cookie butter and egg and combine. Add in the flour, baking soda, and baking powder, and mix until combined, scraping down the sides of the bowl as needed.
3. Roll the dough into 1-inch balls and roll in sugar. Place about 2 inches apart on a baking sheet and bake for 7 minutes. Remove from the oven and gently remove from the pan to a cooling rack so the bottoms don’t get too brown. Cool completely and enjoy

You also might enjoy...

• Peanut Butter Cookies
• Sweetened Condensed Milk Cookies
• Vegan Peanut Butter Cookies
• Gooey Stuffed S’mores Cookies
• Milan Cookies

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4 Responses

1. Gooey Stuffed S’mores Cookies on Fridgg.com 12/11/2013 at 01:16pm

   [...] this is one of the only excuses I have to make cookies all year, so I can’t just stop at one type!), I HAD to make sure I made one of her cookie [...]

2. A_Boleyn 12/12/2013 at 09:33am

   I”m not much of a cookie baker either but I give away most of what I make since there’s no way I could eat an entire batch by myself. All the cookies you baked and received look delicious. One each please.

   I’m really tempted by the idea of a condensed milk cookie. Maybe I’ll use of the cans for the cookies and the other 2 or so I want to buy to make dulce de leche for … well, there are SO many possibilities, aren’t there? Like these alfajores.

   http://a-boleyn.livejournal.com/139723.html#

3. mrsn 08/21/2014 at 01:18pm

   Where do you get cookie butter? Never heard of it…

4. Allison 08/21/2014 at 02:19pm

   mrsn – If you have a Trader Joe’s near you, it’s near the peanut butters. I haven’t really looked anywhere else for it, so not sure if any type of cookie butter is sold at other stores. You can also buy it on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=cookie+butter

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