Cookie butter Cookie butter Cookie butter (Dutch: "Speculoospasta", Danish: "Trøffel-masse") is a food paste made primarily from speculoos cookie crumbs (known as Biscoff in the USA), 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, the Netherlands, and France, it is a common alternative to nut butter and chocolate spreads. The most common brand name is Lotus Bakeries. In 2007, two individual inventors took part in a Belgian TV inventor show, called De Bedenkers ("The Thinkers"), with competing recipes for a similar product: to
Gooey butter cake make deep butter cakes, but got the two butter smears mixed up. The mistake wasn't caught until after the cakes came out of the proof box. Rather than throw them away, Hoffman went ahead and baked them. As this was around the Great Depression that was another reason to be thrifty. The new type of cake sold so well, Hoffman kept producing them and soon, so did the other bakers around St. Louis. Another St. Louis baker, Fred Heimburger, also remembers the cake coming on the scene in the 1930s, as a slip up that became a popular hit and