How to Make Homemade Keto Cookie Butter - Sugar-Free, Gluten-free

Homemade Keto Cookie Butter - Rich, Sweet, creamy, and delicious with a hint of spice, this keto cookie spice butter recipe is insanely easy to make and will become your new sugar-free favourite spread!

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Keto Cookie Spice Butter

Have you ever heard of Cookie Butter?

Until a couple of years ago, I had never heard of cookie butter. And then, a Trader Joe's came to town and cookie butter took over our city!

So, what is cookie butter?

Cookie butter is aromatic, rich, and indulgent with a wonderfully creamy consistency. This spread is made from ground-up spice cookies called speculoos created in the heart of Europe. Just as gingerbread cookies are a holiday tradition in the US, these speculoos cookies are being baked in ovens all across Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands when winter comes around.

If you’ve never tasted cookie butter before, it is one of the most addictive spreads around. So much so, that major keto food companies, like ChocZero and Lakanto have come up with their own versions. After ordering both and of course, trying both, I realize that neither of these two brands came close to authentic cookie butter. Lakanto was much too sweet and used sunflower butter and Choczero did not even contain any of the same spices as the original cookie butter!

So, wanted to make a copycat version, this sugar-free cookie butter recipe is ridiculously creamy, perfectly spiced and super addictive. In fact, this homemade keto cookie butter may even be more addictive than Homemade Keto Espresso Nutella.

Once learn just how to make cookie butter, you will be hooked and will never have to go without or buy keto cookie butter again.

What spices makeup Speculoos Cookies?

In order to make a copycat keto cookie spice butter, I needed to get the spices just right.

Speculoos (which are the foundation of this sugar-free cookie butter recipe) are made of a combination of spices that include cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, anise seed and ground cardamom.

If you do not like some of these spices or if you do not have all of them handy, don't worry! You can omit almost all of the spices or change the amount called for in the recipe but just do not omit the cinnamon and ginger. Without those two flavours, this homemade keto cookie butter will not actually taste like the store-bought version.

Key points on how to make Keto Cookie Butter

Making homemade keto cookie butter is actually really easy but somewhat "backwards" when compared to other sugar-free cookie butter recipes.

Instead of baking keto speculoos into cookie shapes and then grinding them down into cookie crumbs, we are going to save ourselves some time but simply making keto speculoos crumbs!

So, the first step in this recipe is actually sautéing the cookie ingredients (and NOT making them into cookie shapes and baking them). The result will be crispy cookie crumbs in a fracture of the time.

Then, the keto speculoos cookie crumbs will be add to the remaining keto cookie spice butter ingredients and pureed until a nice smooth homemade keto cookie butter is produced!

Ingredients

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Almond flour - I use Blue Diamond Super-Fine almond flour for this recipe.

Sweetener - I like to use Lakanto Golden Sweetener. However, you can use any type of granular sweetener in this recipe.

Spices - A combination of cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves, anise seed and ground cardamom are needed to mimic the flavour of Speculoos cookies.

Shortening - I used Organic Palm Shortening to help keep this recipe dairy-free. Palm shortening is virtually tasteless but adds the necessary creaminess needed for this keto cookie spice butter.

Salt, Vanilla Extract, Baking soda - All these ingredients are almost always added to cookies to help round out the keto Speculoos flavour.

Tapioca Fiber Syrup - This helps to add some sweetness to the end product. Soluble tapioca fiber is a source of dietary fiber on a keto diet, and it will not spike your blood glucose unlike regular carbohydrates. I LOVE KetoGoods Tapioca Fiber Syrup (and if you use the coupon code "Catou", it will save you 10%!).

*See the recipe card for quantities.

Instructions

This recipe is actually really simple. Here are the step-by-step direction on how to make homemade keto cookie butter

Turn food processor on and process until nice and creamy. Taste the mixture and add additional salt, spices or sweetener to suit your taste.

Allow the homemade keto cookie butter to cool before storing it in an airtight container.

Hint: Do NOT use almond milk instead of water. Almond Milk contains thickeners so if you add the almond milk and process it on high, the mixture will turn into one big glob!

Substitutions

This keto cookie spice butter is not only sugar-free, gluten-free and low in carbs and so delicious that I do not suggest substituting the ingredients. However, these are possible substitutions that will result in a similar taste but may result in a different nutrient profile.

• Keto Ginger Cookie Crumbles - if you have any keto cookies that you have leftover, you can simply grind them down into the keto cookie crumbs and then add additional cinnamon and ginger.
• Ginger - replace the ginger with more cinnamon if you are not a fan of it.
• Palm Shortening - You can use butter or softened coconut oil instead.

If you want to make homemade ginger snap cookies for this recipe, check out these ginger snap cookie recipes by My Keto Kitchen, Two Sleeves, or Sugar-Free Londoner.

Variations

You can do so much with this homemade sunflower seed butter by simply changing a few ingredients!

• Chocolate - Add in some unsweetened cocoa powder or stir in some unsweetened baking chocolate. Or, reduce some of the sweetener called for in the recipe card and stir in some sugar-free chocolate chips until they melt.
• White Chocolate Cranberry - add some sugar-free dried cranberries along with some sugar-free white chocolate chips
• Nut Butter - replace the almond flour with peanut flour or sunflower seed flour for a nut-free version. You can also grind down your own nuts or seeds to make homemade flour but just be aware that the end result of the homemade keto cookie butter may not be as smooth.

Check out this post on How to Make Homemade Nut and Seed Butters

Equipment

Making Homemade keto cookie butter only requires a saucepan as well as a food processor.

If you do not have a food processor, you can use an immersion blender instead. I do not suggest using a high-speed blender as the mixture is too solid and therefore will get stuck to the walls of the high-speed blender.

Storage

Store this sugar-free cookie butter recipe in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. The keto cookie spice butter will be firmer directly from the fridge. However, if you want a softer cookie spread, simply remove it from the fridge for about 20-30 minutes.

You can also freeze cookie butter for up to 3 months.

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