Making your own nut butter is so fun, easy, and delicious!
I’ve posted before about specific recipes for different flavors of nut butters I’ve made, but I’ve gotten a lot of questions as to how to even go about making homemade nut butter!
So I’ve decided to dedicate today to showing you all the steps in making it:) It seems appropriate since just yesterday I made a huge container of fresh, homemade almond butter. It was heavenly. There is just something about the homemade stuff. Something that tastes so much better than the store bought butters!
And guess what? Not only is it easier, just requiring whatever nuts you desire plus the food processor, but also very healthy without all the extra added oils and sugars, and cheaper than store bought!
Yesterday, I even took it a step further and split it up into two containers, making a chocolate caramel almond butter, and a coconut vanilla one. Talk about delicious creations. I was eating it by the spoonful!
But first,
Let me take you step by step as to how to make it!
Step 1: Toast almonds (or whatever nut you are using) in oven on broil, watching very closely until they are slightly improvehearingnaturally avodart browned. I emphasize watching closely, because I have burnt many batches of good nuts myself by taking my eyes off of them for just a quick minute!
Step 2: Place toasted nuts into food processor.
Step 3: Turn food processor on, and let those babies grind and grind and grind!
First it’ll just look like chopped nuts, like above. Then, it’ll become finely processed like an almond flour type consistency.
After a couple more minutes of food processing, it’ll finally begin to look like butter! You may have to stop a couple times to scrape down the butter from the sides, and then proceed to process again.
Finally, you will be done! And you will have an excellent, creamy, homemade butter!
This is when you can get creative and add in your own flavors of liking:) I split my batch up this time, and put a tablespoon of cocoa powder and a teaspoon of caramel extract.
And the other half, I put vanilla and coconut extract in, with just a little bit of unsweetened shredded coconut! So delicious:)
Hope you can now go and make your very own nut butter!:)