Cookie Butter is a (delicious) lie

[thistle_chaser]

With a name like cookie butter, how could you not love it? If you hadn't heard of it before, it's like peanut butter made with cookies instead of peanuts. Delicious. A couple weeks ago I finally gave in and bought a jar of it to try. I intended to just taste it and toss it out, because with a name like cookie butter, how could it not have an

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[eglantine_br]

Cookie butter! I need this. I shall search it out and find it, and eat it. You have improved my life.

[thistle_chaser]

If you have a Trader Joe's near you, that's where I got it.

I'd recommend buying more than one jar.

[mousewings]

I must try this fabled cookie butter. Sounds interesting and liked it'd be a good spread for graham crackers or the like.

[thistle_chaser]

It's good on lots of things! Fruit, cookies, crackers. Mmm.

[bacchuslives]

But how was the cookie butter with regard to protein? I generally think of peanut butter is a protein and fat source before carbs...

[thistle_chaser]

That's the only thing I don't really care about, so I didn't check that. I'll try to remember to look when I get home tonight.

[bacchuslives]

I guess that I have more of an Atkins/primal/paleo diet perspective :)

[thistle_chaser]

Okay, I checked it. You won't like it.

Jif peanut butter = 7g protein for 2 tablespoons
Cookie butter = >1g protein for 1 tablespoon

[twissie]

.... cookie butter. I ... don't know how I feel about this, hahahha XD;;

[thistle_chaser]

It's amazing stuff! If you try it, then you'll know how you feel. ;)

[coconuthead]

Cookie butter? I am astounded by the magical world we live in.

[thistle_chaser]

And when you taste it, the real magic starts!