Our New Fall Drink Is an Apple Cookie Butter Cold Brew. Hunter Came Up With It.

By Kevin Pedeaux

There's a new fall drink at CR Coffee Shop, and for once I can't take credit for it. Our barista Hunter came up with the Apple Cookie Butter Cold Brew, and it's the first time we've ever done anything like it.

It starts with our cold brew, which steeps for 18 hours and comes out smooth with no bitter edge. Then comes the cookie butter sauce, and we make that ourselves. Cookie butter, if you haven't had it, is the spread made from speculoos cookies, the thin spiced Belgian cookies the airlines hand out with your coffee. It's something like peanut butter without the peanuts, with cinnamon all through it. We make it into a sauce in the shop.

On top goes apple cold foam. So you get cookie butter and cold brew on the bottom and apple on top, and once they mix in the cup it tastes like the bottom of an apple pie, the part where the crust soaked up the filling, over iced coffee.

It's served cold. If the weather ever decides to have a real cold snap, we can make it as a hot latte with the same sauce and the same apple.

It's on the menu now at Magazine Street and Metairie Road for the fall. Come grab one.

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