Cookie Butter is a (delicious) lie

[thistlechaser]

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 awful amount of calories, fat, carbs, etc? But then I read the label. It has less calories, carbs, fat, and sodium than peanut butter. A whole lot less! But somehow it tastes a lot sweeter and a lot better. (A serving of cookie butter is half the serving size of peanut butter, but I did the math before comparing the two.)

It's some kind of black magic, I tell you. I ended up finishing the jar (using a little of it mixed in with peanut butter, because it's too sweet straight on its own -- how boggling is that, using peanut butter to make something less sweet?). I told myself I wouldn't buy more, but... why not? What I should do is stop using peanut butter and just use cookie butter, since cookie butter is too sweet to use much of yet I can glob on the peanut butter.

In other news:

My vacation day yesterday was wonderful, and I'm very happy I took it. Yeah, I spent the whole entire day playing a video game, but I had more fun and was happier than I've been in a while, so it was worth it.

The book I'm currently reading, Ice, is really, really good. I'm about a third of the way through it, and I'm so impressed by the author. She made a relationship (love) between a girl and a talking polar bear believable! Her characters are amazing, her writing is great -- if that book doesn't win awards, I'll be very surprised.

Tonight is the appointment with the surgeon to (I assume) get the date for my surgery. I'm getting more nervous every day now.

Comments

[eglantine-br.livejournal.com]

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

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

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

I'd recommend buying more than one jar.

[mousewings.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[bacchuslives.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

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

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

[bacchuslives.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm peanut butter all the way... :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, while yummy, cookie butter seems more like empty calories now (even if it's fewer calories).

[twissie.livejournal.com]

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

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

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

[coconuthead.livejournal.com]

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

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

And when you taste it, the real magic starts!

[marzipan.livejournal.com]

Cookie butter... I can sort of imagine what that would be like, I might see if I can find it in a supermarket here (although it probably doesn't exist here - Australia sucks sometimes).

I'm glad you enjoyed your day of FFXIV! I'm getting even more tempted to play it... you can have a pet carbuncle, right? They're adorable.

I hope the appointment went well for you :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Good luck! It's really worth trying.

Yep! You can get two different versions of carbuncle! The game is lots of fun. :D

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

Sounds yum, but I very much doubt I could find it here in Australia. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if you could or not...

[hamsterwoman]

Cookie butter is amazing! It's made with speculoos, which I know from our visits to Belgium, but is even tastier in this form (have you tried the crunchy kind? the crunchy kind is sooo good!)

When Trader Joe's first started carrying it, they kept running out by, like, noon, and had to institute a 2/customer limit, and even then the staff were like, if you want to be sure to get some, you may want to come when the store opens. (Apparently people were buying it by the crate and reselling on eBay for a lot more... but it seems to have calmed down now, and they always have it in stock.)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Crunchy! I haven't, but I can imagine it must be amazing!

I'd totally believe people are ebaying it, too. :/