Crumbl copycat Kentucky Butter Cake Cookies from Lifestyle of a Foodie

Crumbl copycat Kentucky Butter Cake Cookies - made dough January 18, 2023 from Lifestyle of a Foodie 

1 stick (8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup) butter

1/3 cup granulated sugar

2 tablespoons brown sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

Butter sauce

2 tablespoons butter

1/4 cup powdered sugar

2 teaspoons water

1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper.
2. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar until light and fluffy, 1-2 minutes. Add egg and vanilla; mix to combine.
3. Add flour, baking powder and salt; mix on low speed until just combined. 
4. Portion dough into 6 equal balls and gently flatten to thick discs. Equally space on baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes.
5. Make the butter sauce: while cookies are baking, melt butter, powdered sugar, water and vanilla extract in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Stir until sugar is fully dissolved; do not let sauce boil. Remove pan from store and let sit for 5 minutes to thicken. Using a pastry brush, brush each warm cookie with the butter sauce and let set then lightly sprinkle with powdered sugar.

I've made an actual Kentucky Butter Cake before and I've had the original Crumbl Kentucky Butter Cake cookie before as well. I remember both being good because, you know, butter....

Crumbl offered the Kentucky Butter Cake again a few weeks ago and as serendipitous chance would have it, I had the cookie dough for this copycat recipe in my freezer. That doesn't happen often so I decided to bake these off the same day I got the original cookie from Crumbl so I could do a side-by-side taste test. 

First of all, I liked the Kentucky Butter Cake cookie from Crumbl a whole lot more this time around than how I sounded when I did the initial review from last year. Not sure why as I don't think anything's really changed from that original formula. But the Crumbl original was fantastic, perfect texture and amazing butter and butter cake flavor.

Second of all, the copycat recipe made fantastic cookies. As in incredibly, amazingly delicious with an almost exact replica of the texture. I only made half a glaze recipe for the cookies and omitted the powdered sugar since I was mailing these in care packages. That didn't detract from the copycats at all. 

Once again, the recipes from Lifestyle of a Foodie is on point. I don't have to wait for Crumbl to have the Kentucky Butter Cake again as sporadically as they do. I can make this recipe and get my fix whenever the mood strikes,

Crumbl Kentucky butter cake from May 2022

Crumbl Kentucky butter cake February 2023

Crumbl Kentucky butter cake February 2023

Crumbl Kentucky butter cake February 2023

Top cookie is Crumbl's, bottom cookie is from the copycat