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
Vegetable oil Hydrogenated vegetable oils differ in two major ways from other oils which are equally saturated. During hydrogenation, it is easier for hydrogen to come into contact with the fatty acids on the end of the triglyceride, and less easy for them to come into contact with the center fatty acid. This makes the resulting fat more brittle than a tropical oil; soy margarines are less "spreadable". The other difference is that trans fatty acids (often called trans fat) are formed in the hydrogenation reactor, and may amount to as much as 40 percent by weight of a partially hydrogenated oil.