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The Flavor Bender   ›   Recipes   ›   Breakfast Recipes   ›   Breakfast Drinks   ›   Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee

Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee

Author:

Dini Kodippili







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Updated: 2/20/2022
Total Time15 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
Quick and Easy Recipes
Breakfast Drinks
Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee - A creamy and delicious way to flavor your Cold brew coffee this summer! It's the perfect iced coffee!

This Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee is equal parts refreshing, delicious, and comforting. And this easy cookie butter creamer is perfect to flavor your favorite cold brew coffee or any other caffeinated drink!

A glass of cookie butter cold brew coffee with a straw, and a bottle filled with cookie butter creamer in the background.

It’s that time of the year again. Time to bust out all my ice cream, popsicle and cold drinks. Time to stock up my freezer with chilled and frozen treats.

And time to replace my hot coffee with iced coffee in the mornings! When the summer months roll around, I always have a big jug of cold brew coffee in my fridge. 🙂

I’ve been making cold brew coffee and cold brew mocha for ages. The ratio that I always use is 250 g of coarsely ground coffee for every 1375mL (about 5  3/4 US cups and 5  1/2 UK cups) of distilled water.

A hand dispensing cold brew coffee from a cold brew coffee maker into a glass with ice cubes.

Cold brew coffee

My method of making cold brew coffee is to let the coffee soak in water in a bowl, and then drain the coffee into a jug using a nut milk bag and strainer.

While I did love making cold brew coffee this way, it was getting increasingly harder (and a little messy) to wait for the coffee to drain through the nut milk bag into my small, narrow jug.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that tried and true method of making cold brew coffee. But I was looking for a way to make the process easier. Enter, my new KitchenAid Cold Brew Coffee Maker!

A KtichenAid cold brew coffee maker filled with cold brew coffee.

There are other companies and brands that make similar contraptions to make cold brew coffee, so you can definitely shop around until you find one that’s right for you. But I’m absolutely thrilled with this one. This is not a sponsored post, and I’m not getting paid to say that either! I honestly love the darned thing. So much so that I might even get another one to store other cold drinks in the fridge.

They are just right together, and that malty sweetness from the cookies works really well in the coffee.

I added slightly more water than recommended to the cold brew maker, but that’s only because I was sticking to my regular ratio of coffee to water (but it was only 1/2 cup more water, so no biggie). For someone who enjoys coffee drinks as much as I do, there’s really nothing like a good cold brew coffee in the summer. Unless…

Cookie butter coffee creamer

I also made Creamy Cookie Butter Coffee Creamer (Biscoff Coffee Creamer) to add to my cold brew coffee! Yep, that happened folks. From marshmallow coffee creamer to churro coffee creamer, pumpkin coffee creamer etc., I love making easy coffee creamers and they are a great way to add some flavorful indulgence to your coffee.

This cookie butter coffee creamer is no different, and it’s ridiculously easy to make it too. So easy, I even made these cookie butter and chocolate fudge pops and popped them in the freezer for us to snack on during the warm summer months ahead!

Just half and half or milk, cookie butter and sugar blended together. I used my Vitamix to make it, but you can use any type of blender (even a stick blender).

If you can’t find half and half, just replace it with 50:50 milk and pouring cream (non-whipping cream). Obviously, the half and half version is thicker than the milk version, so you can choose either to be the base for your creamer, depending on your preference.

A hand pours cookie butter creamer into a glass with cold brew coffee and ice cubes.

Remember, cold brew coffee is a concentrated drink. So you only have to fill the glass 1/3 or 1/2 and top it with water/milk. That is why I fill the glass with ice, and then add the cold brew coffee.

I sometimes even add a splash of water, IF I know I’ll be drinking it all immediately. If I’m going to be sipping my cold brew coffee throughout the morning, then I don’t add any water, because I know the ice is going to melt into the drink.

A glass of cookie butter cold brew coffee with a straw, and a bottle filled with cookie butter creamer in the background.

I really do have an obsession with the combination of speculoos (or biscoff cookies) and coffee. They are just right together, and that malty sweetness from the cookies works really well in the coffee.

A glass of iced coffee with a straw, surrounded by coffee creamer and cold brew coffee containers.

I even made my first cinemagraph photo, specifically for this post too! 🙂 I was pretty proud of it, and as a reward, I gave myself and extra glass of cookie butter cold brew coffee. Why not?

A GIF of cookie butter coffee creamer mixing with cold brew coffee in a glass.

I can definitely use the extra doses of caffeine these days, as I’m still busy with my cookbook, wrapping up the photography. But there’s always time for a refreshing glass of cold brew coffee with cookie butter coffee creamer!

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A hand pours cookie butter creamer into a glass with cold brew coffee, creating a swirling effect.
5 from 3 votes

Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee

Author: Dini Kodippili
Yield: About 1 liter (about 4 cups) of cold brew coffee for about 4 drinks
Cuisine: American, European, North American
Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee - A creamy and delicious way to flavor your Cold brew coffee this summer! It's the perfect iced coffee!

 Difficulty: 

Easy
Cold Brew Coffee flavored with an easy cookie butter creamer. Refreshing and delicious! Or use the creamer to flavor any caffeinated drink of your choice.
EASY – This is an easy recipe to make. However, cold brew coffee has to be made a day before, since it brews slowly.
The cold brew coffee needs to be brewed for a minimum of 15 hours.

US based cup, teaspoon, tablespoon measurements. Weight‌ ‌measurements‌ ‌are‌ ‌recommended‌ ‌for‌ ‌accurate‌ ‌results whenever available.

Common Measurement Conversions
Prep: 10 minutes mins
Steeping time: 15 hours hrs
Total Time: 15 hours hrs 10 minutes mins
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Makes: 4 servings

Ingredients:
 

Cold Brew Coffee
  • 250 g medium-roast coffee coarsely ground
  • 1375 mL distilled water 5 ¾ US cups
Cookie Butter Creamer
  • 1 ½ cups half and half
  • ⅓ cup cookie butter / Biscoff cookie spread
  • ¼ cup sugar less if you prefer
Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee
  • 1000 mL cold brew coffee 4 cup (recipe above)
  • 240 mL cookie butter creamer or more to taste (recipe above)
  • Ice

Instructions:
 

Cold Brew Coffee
  • Place the coarsely ground coffee in the straining basket of your cold brew maker OR in a jug or bowl.
    250 g medium-roast coffee
  • Pour 1 L (about 4 cups) of distilled water EVENLY over the coffee grounds (making sure that all of the coffee grounds come into contact with water). Gently submerge the coffee grounds in the water. Pour the rest of the water over the coffee grounds.
    1375 mL distilled water
  • Cover and let the coffee brew at room temperature or in the fridge for 15 – 20 hours (up to 24 hours).
  • Remove the straining basket and let it drain for about 10 minutes into the cold brew (to let all of the liquid drain out). DO NOT press on the coffee grounds.
  • IF you place the coffee grounds in a jug or bowl, pour the mix through a large sieve to remove the larger coffee grounds. Let the coffee drain for about 15 minutes and discard the coffee grounds.
  • Strain the coffee through a fine sieve or coffee filter or cheesecloth to remove the finer coffee grounds. Allow the coffee grounds to drain for about 15 minutes to make sure all of the liquid has drained out. DO NOT press on the coffee grounds.
  • Store the cold brew coffee in a container / jug with a lid, in the fridge, for up to 1 week.
Cookie Butter Creamer
  • Place all the ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Let the creamer rest to remove the bubbles, and store in bottles (closed), in the fridge. Use within a week.
    1 ½ cups half and half, ⅓ cup cookie butter / Biscoff cookie spread, ¼ cup sugar
Cookie Butter Cold Brew Coffee
  • Fill 4 serving glasses with ice. Fill each of the glasses ½ way up with cold brew coffee, about 1 cup per glass. Add a splash of water (optional).
    1000 mL cold brew coffee, Ice
  • Top it with ¼ cup cookie butter creamer, or more to taste. Stir and serve. Enjoy!
    240 mL cookie butter creamer

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 1glass Calories: 186kcal (9%) Carbohydrates: 24g (8%) Protein: 2g (4%) Fat: 9g (14%) Saturated Fat: 4g (25%) Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g Monounsaturated Fat: 2g Cholesterol: 17mg (6%) Sodium: 19mg (1%) Potassium: 59mg (2%) Sugar: 9g (10%) Vitamin A: 161IU (3%) Vitamin C: 1mg (1%) Calcium: 48mg (5%) Iron: 1mg (6%)

“This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily from the USDA Food Composition Database, whenever available, or otherwise other online calculators.”

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9 responses

  1. Kelsey Federer
    November 4, 2023

    Hi! Could you use almond milk for the creamer??

    Reply
    1. Dini
      November 4, 2023

      Hi Kelsey
      Unfortunately almond milk cannot be substituted for half and half. Almond milk by itself doesn’t have the richness and thickness to be a creamer for coffee. However, if you can find unflavored almond milk creamer, this can be used instead of half and half.
      I hope that helps

      Reply
  2. Jamie
    December 8, 2020

    5 stars
    I just tried this today, SO DELICIOUS! What a great idea! Quick question for you: I didn’t have half & half, so I used 2% milk and whipping cream (only cream I had on hand), and it was great immediately after blending, but then a few minutes after I added it to the cold brew, the creamer curdled a bit. Does that ever happen for you? I’m hoping to follow the recipe exactly next time! Thanks so much for the recipe!

    Reply
    1. Dini
      December 8, 2020

      Hi Jamie!
      Mixing 2% and whipping cream should be perfectly fine! It is more likely that either the milk or the cream was old and mixing it with coffee just made it curdle.
      If you try it with fresh milk and cream (or half and half), it should be fine!
      Hope that helps!

      Reply
      1. Jamie
        December 8, 2020

        That makes complete sense – thank you so much, Dini! I will try it again and report back 🙂

        Reply
  3. JB
    June 30, 2019

    5 stars
    OMG, this creamer is seriously AMAZING! It is delicious and takes just a few minutes to make a full week’s worth.

    Reply
    1. Dini
      July 4, 2019

      Thank you so much for letting me know JB, so glad you liked the creamer! 🙂

      Reply
  4. ariete
    April 14, 2018

    5 stars
    Can I use fine ground coffee for espresso for this recipe or must be course ground coffee?

    Reply
    1. Dini
      April 14, 2018

      Hi Ariete!
      If you use fine ground coffee and leave it in the fridge for 15-20 hours, you may end up with coffee that is far too bitter. You could still make cold brew with espresso coffee, but I would recommend tasting it after about 7 – 8 hours to check if it’s done. That is what I would do 🙂
      I’m not sure of the exact time frame as I haven’t made cold brew with finely ground coffee.
      I hope that helps!

      Reply

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