How the fuck do you make homemade butter cookies taste like this?

I just can't seem to do it, I've made homemade versions of oreos, obviously butter cookies are the easiest shit too, but how the fuck do you even replicate the taste of these?

People say they're just spekuloos cookies but I've followed recipes of that and they're not the same shit at all, are lotus biscoff cookies a product that can only be achieved through sloppified artificial flavourings? No matter what I try my homemade versions taste fine but they're not the better versions of these, these are so good but I am too prideful, I want to make MY version

they're just spekuloos cookies. if you can make a snickerdoodle, you can make a spekuloos.

>>21425217
I must have fucked up somehow because last two times I tried to make speculoos it just didn't taste... like that, that caramelized flavor the lotus ones have isn't there if you just make speculoos

>>21425230
try browning your butter.

>>21425233
maybe this is it, browned butter can harden and then be fluffled with caster sugar right?

>>21425243
idk i've never hardened butter.
i just brown it and then mix it in as usual.

>>21425243
if by harden you mean will it solidify in the fridge then yes and yes it can be used as you would normally use butter, I've done it for cookies before and it's absolutely worth it

Man I used to love that shit when I traveled for work. Saved it to eat at the hotel with a nice cup of hotel-provided tea.

>>21425377
Grim

>>21425211 (OP)
I don't like how you can literally taste the fat. I taste the pig when I'm eating that, I duuno why.

What even is speculoos

>>21425245
>>21425362

Usually when you make butter cookies you wanna whip the butter with the sugar to make it more fluffy is what I meant, if browned butter can do that then that's great.

Even if it doesn't work to make it taste like biscoff it'll probably be very tasty for normal butter cookies anyway.

In fact it may even help me because the less water content the better, when I make butter cookies I like to shape them nicely with moulds and shit so they can have designs and shit.

>>21426993
why do you need fluffy butter to make a thin dry biscuit style cookie i guess is my question

>>21426708
spiced holiday cookies usually pressed in a mold.

>>21427132
Yes but what spice I do not recognize that taste from anything else

>>21427202
holiday spices. cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom... the usual.

>>21426708
An originally Belgian alternative to the speculaas we have here in the Netherlands.
Speculaas traditionally is made using a mixture of spices, which were pretty cheap in our colonial period, but unaffordable for our Belgian neighbours.
Speculoos is a different thing they came up with that uses some kind of syrup and just cinnamon instead of the spice mixture.
>>21427132
That is speculaas

>>21429001
you make it sound like they're two different cookies
it's the exact same shit.

>>21429278
Bullshit, they taste nothing alike

>>21429307
Nah it’s quite similar. Like Coke and Pepsi.

>>21429336
I answered a question that was asked and maybe it helps OP get closer to what he is looking for as well.
I am not going to make some /v/ level debate or yes/no contest out of this

>>21425377
The snacks are by far my favorite part of flying Delta. I especially like their snack mix with the rye chips.