Crazy people are running wild online and offline ordering these jars of Speculoos Cookie Butter in the past months or since last quarter.  Pretty eyes Misty who was sweet enough to bring home a bottle for Madz and me to share (which I only had a spoonful or two of), brought home some from her family vacation in the US of A (thanks dear!).

Just last week, I was able to finally place a bottle of Speculoos Cookie Butter, the crunchy version, inside my pantry.  Side by side with it is Peanut Butter & Co.’s Crunch Time Peanut Butter. 

I have yet to open both bottles since I want to share it also.  It’s more fun eating with more people instead of alone… although I can already imagine myself huddled in one corner of the room barefoot with just these bottles, a spoon and some good steady music, wishing that moment helps me percolate some BRIGHT ideas inside this otherwise hollow shell I call a skull. 

But until I have friends / people over, I’m practicing self-control.  Today, that didn’t work out pretty well when 2 boxes of Gonuts Donuts Plus arrived in my office.  I wouldn’t have peek at it if it didn’t bear the flavor right out front, “Cookie Butter Donuts.”  Trader Joe’s Cookie Butter???  Speculoos Cookie Butter?  Cookie Butter?  I couldn’t RESTRAIN myself.

The handwritten note read,

“Dear Jane,

You definitely can’t just have one of these #CookieButterDonuts.”

That person has the gift of foresight because I didn’t stop at one.  I.  CAN’T.  HELP.  MYSELF.

I was initially skeptical thinking it’s only riding on the Speculoos bandwagon.  The donut was spectacularly scrumptious and deliciously and drunkenly sweet.  It’s the original sugar-glazed donut people were lining up for in Gonuts Donuts (when they started) topped GENEROUSLY with that brown lovely smooth goo that is Cookie Butter.  Rich but I devoured more than one.

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