Best Cookie Butter for Your Creamy Cookie Kick

The best cookie butter is creamy, sweet, and spiced to gingerbread perfection. It should taste like a deconstructed speculoos spiced cookie, aka Christmas in a jar. The best cookie butter is so good, it may induce an existential crisis, where you contemplate whether you really need to eat other foods when you could be consuming cookie butter every single day. (No? Just us? Okay then.) 

For those who haven’t had the pleasure of trying cookie butter before, here’s what you need to know: Cookie butter is a creamy spread made from ground Belgian speculoos cookies. There are no nuts in it, but like any good nut butter, you can buy it smooth (blended to perfection) or crunchy (mixed with heavenly bits of speculoos cookie). It tastes like a gingerbread cookie paste, with cinnamon, nutmeg, and a touch of clove. You can eat it straight out of the jar with a spoon. You can put it on toast. You can smear it on apples, bananas, and strawberries. And obviously—perhaps so obvious some people may miss it—you can spread it over cookies. I’ve been daydreaming about getting my hands on a bag of Milanos since this taste test and hoarding all the leftover cookie butter jars for myself. 

From this taste test, I’ve learned it’s frankly hard to make a bad cookie butter. Still, from all the brands we tried (including, of course, Biscoff Cookie Butter), these six really stood out. Here’s the best cookie butter you can buy, ranked. 

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Best Biscoff Dupe: Private Selection Creamy Cookie Butter

Best Biscoff Dupe

Private Selection Creamy Cookie Butter

Kroger’s cookie butter brand is a pretty good Biscoff cookie butter dupe. It’s extremely smooth and blended—almost identical to a creamy Jif peanut butter consistency. It has a strong graham cracker flavor that lingers with every spoonful. If anything, there’s a note of syrupy-sugar to this that makes it taste slightly more processed than the other brands on this list (seriously, I don’t think you’ll even notice it), but overall, it’s a good affordable cookie butter option for Kroger shoppers.

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Rating:

7.5/10

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Best Lightly Sweet: Roland Cookie Butter

Best Lightly Sweet

Roland Cookie Butter

Roland’s Cookie Butter, a brand imported from the Netherlands (close to cookie butter’s humble beginnings), is some of the best cookie butter you can find. Like Private Selection, it tastes remarkably similar to Biscoff cookie butter, but it’s a little less dense. The Sporked team also noted a pretzel-like quality here—a slight emphasis on the wheat, less on the sugar. It isn’t as boldly flavored as the cookie butters you’ll see below, but the difference is pretty negligible, in my opinion. Bonus: It comes in a cute and sturdy glass jar.

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Rating:

8/10

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Trader Joe's Cookie Butter

Best Grocery Store Brand

Trader Joe’s Speculoos Cookie Butter

Trader Joe’s hopped on the cookie butter train pretty early on—in fact, some people nowadays even look at the word “speculoos” and assume it’s a Trader Joe’s product. (Not so. “Speculoos” is a biscuit originally manufactured in Belgium, courtesy of Biscoff, that brands now use generically.) TJ’s loves to put out speculoos products—including, but not limited to, the very best Trader Joe’s ice cream we’ve tried to date, Speculoos Cookie Butter Ice Cream. Naturally, their regular old cookie butter is top notch, too. Both their creamy and crunchy versions are a tad sweet than other brands, thanks to the brown sugar. Heat this stuff up, drizzle it over vanilla ice cream, and you’ll experience a high like no other. lf you wish regular cookie butter was a tad sweeter, consider Trader Joe’s the best cookie butter for you. (Note: Their crunchy cookie butter seems to be off the shelves right now, but we’re hoping TJ’s decides to bring it back!)

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Rating:

8/10

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Best Creamy: Lotus Biscoff Cookie Butter

Best Creamy

Lotus Biscoff Cookie Butter

Lotus Biscoff Cookie Butter is the OG brand that started the cookie butter craze here in the U.S. In some ways, you could call this the “cookie cutter” brand of cookie butter—it’s what everyone expects from the best cookie butter, and for good reason. It’s incredibly flavorful and thick, yet it still spreads like—you guessed it—butter. Biscoff is the gold standard. Literally. It’s so shiny. For any first time cookie butter buyers, I highly recommend buying Biscoff. It’s truly life changing.

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Rating:

9.5/10

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Runner Up: Nappr Speculoos Cookie Butter

Runner Up

Nappr Speculoos Cookie Butter

Nappr was a unique find for us. We ordered this cookie butter off Amazon, and it arrived in a nondescript gray bag that looked a little worse for wear. My expectations, at this point, were pretty low. As soon as I stuck my spoon in it, I noticed that the consistency was sticky—a quality not shared by any other cookie butter brands I’d tried. I thought, “Eugh, this is going to be weird.” And you know what? I don’t think I’ve ever been more wrong in my life. Nappr Cookie Butter is our dark horse candidate: It’s crunchy, creamy, and yes, sticky—in a way that’s incredibly satisfying to eat by the spoonful. It lingers in your mouth, like peanut butter that clings to your palette. The spices are warm, nuanced, and cozy. This tastes like a homemade, deconstructed gingerbread cookie batter straight out of mee-ma’s kitchen. In my opinion, this is the best cookie butter I’ve ever tasted—but I know most people will prefer our #1.

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Rating:

9.5/10

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Best of the Best: Lotus Biscoff Cookie Butter Crunchy

Best of the Best

Lotus Biscoff Cookie Butter Crunchy

Biscoff’s Crunchy Cookie Butter takes everything beautiful about the creamy version and adds a delicious, crumbly, crisp texture. It’s not sticky, like Nappr, which will likely appeal to a broader range of cookie butter connoisseurs. The crunchiness is also much more even and crushed; it’s less like a crunchy peanut butter, and more like a deliciously grainy edible cookie dough. It’s undeniably incredible. As the only true Belgian brand on this list, I’m pleased to say crunchy Biscoff Cookie Butter is the best cookie butter you can buy, hands down. Thank you, Belgium, for your service to the world.

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Rating:

10/10

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Other cookie butters we tried: Private Selection Cookie Butter Crunchy, Nuts ‘N More Cookie Butter Peanut Butter Spread, ChocZero Keto Cookie Butter Spread


About the Author

Ariana Losch

Ariana Losch is a Sporked contributor, webcomic writer, java junkie, and bad TV enthusiast. She only ever feels at peace laying out on a beach like a kebab, roasting in the sun; sadly, she can never move back to Florida, her home state, because there simply isn’t enough good Mediterranean food. You can find her overstaying her welcome at just about every LA coffee shop, working on a screenplay and avoiding all eye contact. (She is embarrassed to be there, please leave her alone.)

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