Melt-in-your-mouth good, Cookie Butter Pound Cake is luscious and rich. The cookie butter gives it almost a brown sugar or caramel flavor. It’s moist and soft with that crust that is so desirable on pound cakes.

Cookie butter is a spread like peanut butter that’s made from a cookie. The cookie is ‘kind of’ like a graham cracker. Here are examples of cookie butter > Lotus and Speculoos or you can find it with the peanut butter in stores.

Cookie Butter Pound Cake bakes up tender, soft and moist with tons of flavor. I highly recommend this cake. And I know pound cakes. Check out my review of pound cakes.

As I ran across a photo of my Peanut Butter Pound Cake it hit me instantaneously ‘why haven’t I made a Cookie Butter Pound Cake?’ I mean, if something is so good that you can eat it straight from the jar, it’s got to get better in cake form. Am I right?

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A pound cake is a classic Southern dessert. Traditionally, they are butter or vanilla-flavored and made with a pound of butter, a pound of flour, a pound of sugar and a pound of eggs. I believe it has remained a popular dessert choice for one because the recipe was easy to remember before cookbooks were printed. Secondly, it’s buttery and sweet and can be enjoyed plain or dressed up with ice cream, whipped cream, fruit, chocolate, caramel, and the list goes on!

This Cookie Butter Pound Cake is everything you want in a dessert. No, it’s not a traditional pound cake. It’s not even close. However, it is velvety, luscious, and FULL of amazing cookie butter flavor. Adding cookie butter elevates this pound cake to the next level. It’s super moist inside with the same crispy outside of a traditional pound cake. And, that frosting!! Superb!

Recipe. Melt-in-your-mouth good, Cookie Butter Pound Cake

What about the frosting?

For the icing, I mixed cookie butter with a traditional cream cheese frosting recipe, and, oh boy, it is nothing short of miraculous! You’ll want the icing to be thin and ‘pourable’ versus thick and ‘spreadable’. Does that make sense?

This recipe is sure to become a beloved favorite. After all, who can resist a cake that is so moist and buttery that it melts in your mouth?

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Cookie Butter Pound Cake

Pound cakes are quintessentially Southern. A classic that’s always popular. I updated and kicked up the traditional butter Pound Cake with a good amount of cookie butter. It’s sure to become your new family favorite!

Author: Paula

4.97 from 66 votes

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Prep Time: 15

Cook Time: 1 15

Total Time: 1 30

Servings: 12 slices

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Ingredients

Pound Cake

1 and ½ cup butter
3 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup cookie butter
6 large eggs at room temperature
3 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Frosting

1/4 cup butter at room temperature
4 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
1/4 cup cookie butter
1 and ⅔ cup powdered sugar (aka confectioners)
1 to 2 tablespoons whole milk adjust to get a ‘pourable’ glaze

Instructions

Pound Cake

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare a 10-inch tube pan with non-stick spray or grease and flour.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
Cream in cookie butter until smooth and well incorporated.
Add eggs one at a time beating until it disappears in the batter before adding the next one.
In another bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt.
Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating after each addition until combined.
Mix in vanilla.
Pour into 10-inch tube pan and smooth surface.
Bake 70-75 minutes or until wooden pick comes out clean.
Cool 20 minutes before removing from tube pan.
Cool completely on a wire rack before frosting.

Frosting

Mix butter, cookie butter, and cream cheese with an electric mixer until smooth
Slowly add confectioner sugar with the mixer on low.
Add milk. Mix until smooth.
Pour over cooled cake.

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57 Comments

What is Bea butter in the frosting recipe?

I only used 2 cups of sugar, with the sugar from the Biscoff I found it much too sweet even using less sugar.

This sounds so delicious! I’m not much of a baker, as you will see from my question. Can self rising flour be substituted for the all purpose flour, salt, and baking powder? I don’t always have all purpose, but do have self rising.

Please. What is cookie butter??

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:08 am

It’s a spread like peanut butter that’s made from a cookie. The cookie is ‘kind of’ like a grapham cracker. Here is examples > http://amzn.to/2hywYXt and http://amzn.to/2zNALKL

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Honeyhaz says:

12.25.18 at 9:33 am

It is biscoff in peanut butter in a side group. You will spot two jars are cream or crunch.

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Could you please share the recipe for the frosting?

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:09 am

Yes, it’s in the post not, apologies. I forgot it initially

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Peggy Gossett says she’s never heard of cookie butter until she read the recipe. Well, I still don’t know what cookie cutter is, and I have read all of this over and over about 3 times. So can you explain to me what cookie butter is, please?

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:11 am

Yes, I’m so sorry for assuming it was a well known ingredient. It’s a spread like peanut butter that’s made from a cookie. The cookie is ‘kind of’ like a grapham cracker. Here is examples > http://amzn.to/2hywYXt and http://amzn.to/2zNALKL. It is found in the grocery store with the peanut butter.

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LS says:

08.24.18 at 3:20 pm

It’s delicious. I didn’t know what it was either until I tried the cookie butter milkshake at Steak n Shake. Love it. Very rich though.

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This cake looks so good! I’ve never heard of cookie butter until I read your recipe. Thank you, I’ve got to bake this cake.

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:12 am

It’s CRAZY GOOD!! I’ve always been a big fan of peanut butter and almond butter. Here are examples > http://amzn.to/2hywYXt and http://amzn.to/2zNALKL

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what is cookie butter? how do you make it?

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:16 am

It’s a spread like peanut butter that’s made from a cookie. The cookie is ‘kind of’ like a graham cracker. Here is examples > http://amzn.to/2hywYXt and http://amzn.to/2zNALKL it’s with the peanut butter i
n stores

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1. Janice Valdetero says:
  
  12.01.17 at 12:18 pm
  
  I found Cookie Butter in the Store a few Months ago and got it to try, Luv It. Glad I found this recipe now cause I bought more Cookie Butter. Thank you Paula.

Can’t wait till I make the Cookie Butter Pound Cake! Sounds awesome but there is not a recipe for the frosting. Could you please post it ?

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:12 am

I’m sorry, It’s there now in the post. I had accidentally omitted it

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hi I just wanted to ask what brand of cookie butter did you use for this pound cake

Paula says:

11.17.17 at 10:14 am

I used Biscoff. It’s the only one my store has, well they had the generic brand but I never use generic.

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