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How to Make Nut Butter (Recipes)

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How to make Homemade Nut Butter of all kinds! No need to buy store brands, you can make every nut butter at home easily and in just a few minutes!

collage of several different nut butters

HOW TO MAKE NUT BUTTER

It couldn’t be more simple and easy to make any type of nut butter at home with just 1 ingredient! I’ve been making these for years and this guide will show you how to make all kinds of different nut butters, including sunflower seed butter!

To make homemade nut butter, you need a quality food processor. One that is large enough to accommodate nuts and pulverize them into a silky smooth texture.

MY FAVORITE NUT BUTTERS

  • Raw Cashew Butter
  • Roasted Almond Butter
  • Cinnamon Ginger Almond Butter
  • Chocolate Sunflower Seed Butter
  • Walnut Butter
  • Pecan Butter
  • Hazelnut Butter
  • Coconut Butter

RAW CASHEW BUTTER

Cashew butter is one of my favorite ingredients for baking. It is the most neutral in flavor and has a naturally sweet, vanilla flavor to it. It is also light in color, so it won’t make your baked goods dark.

I use it mostly in cookies, like these Cashew Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies, Vegan Gluten-free Sugar Cookies, Iced Oatmeal Cookies and even Strawberry Cream Cheese!

red bowl of cashew butter

How To Make Cashew Butter (Creamy and Smooth)
Learn How to Make Homemade Cashew Butter with just 1 ingredient, cashews! It’s easy, creamy, delicious and oil-free and takes just a few minutes to make! Use it in baking cookies or in savory sauces or soups. It gives the best flavor and creamy texture.
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creamy smooth raw cashew butter in red bowl

ROASTED ALMOND BUTTER

My most used nut butter for baking. It is what I use in a ton of my cookie recipes to replace butter and oil and make them oil-free.

Some of my favorites are these Almond Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies and these Best Ever Vegan Gluten-free Brownies.

almond butter smooth in food processor

How to Make Homemade Roasted Almond Butter
Learn How to Make Homemade Roasted Almond Butter with just 1 ingredient, almonds! It's easy, creamy, delicious and oil-free and takes just a few minutes to make!
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Roasted almond butter in food processor

CINNAMON GINGER ROASTED ALMOND BUTTER

If you are looking for a next-level almond butter to liven up your taste buds and toast, this is it!

Roasted almond butter on toast

Cinnamon Ginger Almond Butter
A Homemade Cinnamon Ginger Almond Butter that is rich in spices, aroma and sweetened with coconut sugar. This stuff is so delicious, contains no added oils and is incredible on toast!
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Roasted almond butter on toast

CHOCOLATE SUNFLOWER SEED BUTTER

This is for those who love chocolate, but can’t have nuts. Enter the most luscious chocolate sunflower seed butter made from raw sunflower seeds. This stuff is addictive!

When I created this, it is what inspired me to create my popular Best Vegan Gluten-free Fudgy Brownies.

glass bowl of chocolate sunflower seed butter

Homemade Sunflower Seed Butters (2 flavors!)
How to Make Homemade Sunflower Seed Butters in 2 flavors! You can choose from a savory or a sweet sunflower seed butter. Both are perfect for dipping fruit in or spreading on toast! Oil-free and nut-free!
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collage of chocolate sunflower seed butter and regular

WALNUT BUTTER

Walnut butter is extremely smooth and runny, very similar to oil, so it makes a wonderful replacement for oil in some recipes, like my Healthy Vegan Cinnamon Rolls! I do not recommend walnut butter by itself, as it is quite bitter. Moreso, I make it to use mainly in baking as an oil replacement.

However, if you wanted to flavor it, I’d add a pinch of sea salt and some coconut sugar to sweeten. You do not want to add a syrup or liquid sweetener to walnut butter, or any nut butter for that matter (unless in larger quantities), because the heat of the processor tends to make it seize up and turn into a stiff mess.

spoon holding smooth walnut butter above white bowl

How to Make Walnut Butter
Learn how to make homemade Walnut Butter by roasting walnuts to bring out their natural oils and create the most buttery, silky smooth and creamy nut butter! Great on toast, bagels or even use it in baking for a butter taste in place of oil!
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spoon holding smooth walnut butter above white bowl

PECAN BUTTER

Pecan butter is very similar to walnut butter, in that it is quite runny and smooth. The main difference is that pecan butter tastes quite sweet and walnut butter tastes much more bitter. I can eat pecan butter by the spoon, it is so good!

One of the best cookie recipes I’ve ever written was years ago using pecan butter as a base for these chocolate chip cookies. It was a brilliant moment, if I do say so myself, lol, to replace oil/butter in my cookie recipe. I had only been baking vegan for about a year at the time and had no idea if it would work, but let me tell you, they are a cookie like no other.

Every time I serve them, I literally watch people moan and their eyes roll back as they devour each bite, haha.

spoon dipping into red bowl of pecan butter

How to Make Roasted Pecan Butter
How to make Roasted Pecan Butter. Homemade oil-free pecan butter made with just pecans. Creamy, buttery, slightly sweet and made in a food processor. Easy and delicious for desserts.
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HAZELNUT BUTTER

Hazelnut butter is fantastic and very bold in flavor. It is known for being a perfect compliment with chocolate. Hello vegan nutella! But did you know it also goes great with cinnamon? Check out these Cinnamon Vegan Hazelnut Chocolate Chip Cookies!

The steps to make the actual hazelnut butter are listed under step 1 on the cookie recipe card.

black spoon in white bowl of roasted hazelnut butter on wood plate

How to Make Hazelnut Butter (Roasted)
How to make Hazelnut Butter at home is a very simple, easy recipe using roasted hazelnuts! It is so silky smooth, creamy, slightly sweet and absolutely delicious!
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black spoon in white bowl of roasted hazelnut butter on wood plate

COCONUT BUTTER

I use coconut butter in so many recipes on my blog! I love how buttery it makes baked goods taste. It is excellent in these Gingersnaps and in these Vegan Chocolate Chip Cupcakes and these Vegan Gluten-free Vanilla White Cupcakes! And of course, Coconut Butter Brownies!

It also hardens, so it works well in recipes that need firming up, like this Vanilla Buttercream Frosting.

glass bowl of coconut butter with some dripping off spoon

How to Make Coconut Butter (And Recipes to Use In!)
Learn how to make your own Homemade Coconut Butter in 10 minutes! Just 1 ingredient! Use for cakes, cupcakes, toast, muffins, fudge. So easy and so delicious!
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glass bowl of coconut butter with some dripping off spoon

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  1. John Sliger

    October 11, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    Thank you for the directions for making my own nut/seed butters (other than peanut butter). I tried making almond butter that turned out crap (didn’t have your site then).

    I see that you buy your almond flour. Have you made your own flour as yet?

    Reply
    • brandi.doming@yahoo.com

      October 12, 2021 at 12:07 am

      Hi John! This comment made me laugh, haha. Roasting the nuts makes a huge difference.

      I have made just almond meal by blending up whole raw almonds but it’s never usually as fine as the store. Blanched almond flour I’ll only buy from the store, too complicated to do at home and it’ll never turn out as fine.

      Reply
  2. LaTrice Mays

    March 2, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    Hi Brandi,

    All of these would be great in an E book! I’m ready to buy !!!

    Reply
    • brandi.doming@yahoo.com

      March 3, 2021 at 12:16 am

      You’re so sweet, thank you so much LaTrice for your support!

      Reply
  3. Butterflygal

    March 2, 2021 at 6:22 am

    I excitedly printed out all the recipes except for the sunflower and coconut butters which I couldn’t find. (found the hazelnut butter one within the cookie recipe) Am I not looking in the right place? Can’t wait to use these butters in your other recipes!

    Reply
    • brandi.doming@yahoo.com

      March 2, 2021 at 6:38 am

      Oh goodness, I’m sorry, I’ve fixed them both now! Just refresh your browser and you should see them now!

      Reply
    • LaTrice Mays

      March 2, 2021 at 7:23 pm

      Butterflygal so did I!

      Brandi can we pleasssssssssssssssse get an E book pretty please!
      Butterflygal I like to buy the thin clear cover binders with the 3 prong and make diy cookbooks also such as these!
      Brandi thanks soooooooooooooo much for teaching us how to cook healthy and make our own foods!
      I love you so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Reply

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