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, pancakes or breakfast.
Allow me to introduce to you pure yumminess. Roasted pecan butter. I find this much tastier than almond butter and it’s also a lot easier to make. Almond butter requires a really long time in the food processor…like 15 minutes. A lot of people can’t make it because their food processor isn’t powerful enough. Problem solved….pecan butter.
This is so creamy and delicious that oil isn’t even needed, it is an oil-free nut butter!
Served any way you see fit. I personally liked it on top of my Sweet Potato Pancakes. You could put it on toast, ice cream, cake…whatever! But they are the absolute secret and star in my Pecan Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies! You can even make cookie cake with it!
It only requires just 1 ingredient, obviously pecans! You can add salt it you like, but it’s not necessary. Roast them and blend in your food processor to end up with the silkiest, dreamiest nut butter you’ve ever tasted.
MORE NUT BUTTERS TO MAKE
- Walnut Butter
- Roasted Almond Butter
- Cashew Butter
- Hazelnut Butter
- Sunflower Seed Butter
- Cinnamon Ginger Almond Butter
- Coconut Butter
How to Make Roasted Pecan Butter
Ingredients
- 3 heaping cups raw pecan halves
Instructions
- Preheat an oven to 300°F and line a sheet pan with parchment paper.
- Spread out pecans on the pan evenly, making sure not to overlap them. Use 2 sheets if necessary. Bake for 12 minutes, just until starting to smell strong. Be careful not to over bake because they quickly can turn from done to burnt.
- Remove them from the oven and add to a food processor. Process for a full minute. Scrape down the sides and process again for another few minutes or so until very smooth and creamy.
- Just make sure not to stop before it reaches the very velvety smooth consistency, like in the photo. It will be smoother than almond butter and very much like a liquid.
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This never became liquid?
Then you need to keep processing it. Roasted pecans are very oily but processing them goes through stages from pieces to thick paste and then eventually to what the photo shows. I’ve made it for years and works everytime. Also, depending on your food processor, it could take longer. What size bowl is your processor?
Can you make pecan butter with a Vitamix? I have tried Cashews in the Ninja but It didn’t work. Maybe I need to give it more time. Are there enough cashews in the recipe for the Vitamix.I seem to have a problem with small batches. Maybe I need a food processor.
Yes pecans are oily enough to work great in a vitamix.
Need to enable 6 stars on the rating scale for this because 5stars aren’t enough. Used it to create nutella. It seems like if i spread it on even a piece of cardboard, it’ll magically turn it to a divine eating experience.
Thank you so much for sharing this!
Yay Eric!! Hahaha I love that!
How should it be stored and how long will it last? Thanks
Hi! You can store it either in the fridge or pantry. It lasts a few weeks in the pantry or twice as long in the fridge.
Someone from another group asked about making nut butters in their new food processor. I told them that you had the BEST recipe for almond butter. We keep a jar in our refrigerator at all times. I looked up on your site to see if you had any others and I happily found this recipe for pecan butter. I made it last night and both my husband and I thought it was amazing! Now we can’t chose between the almond butter or the pecan butter! Thank you for all that you do! Your recipes are great!
Aww that’s so lovely to hear, thank you so much Karen!! Isn’t that pecan butter so dreamy?!
Hi!
Will a Vitamix blender work just as well for making this pecan butter?
Thank you!
I think so, it will take longer and you will have to stop and push down the pecans a lot at first, but if you are patient and keep going, it should work. Roasting pecans releases a lot of their natural oils so blending them is much easier than any other nut!
OMG! I only got as far as my spoon coated in this nut butter sprinkled witb dark chocolate chips because they happened to be in the right place at the right time! I’m pretty sure I wasnt supposed to eat the whole jar in one sitting 🤔
I’m here because I’m making your pecan butter cookies! I was just wondering how much butter was made with 3 cups of pecans before being blended (since I need 1 cup of pecan oil for your cookies!)
It makes about 1 1/4 cups, so you will have some extra, so make sure to only measure out 1 cup of the pecan butter for the recipe after making it. I would also let it cool some before proceeding, or the hot pecan butter will melt the chocolate chips. Let me know how it turns out! 🙂
This looks amazing! I have never thought of pecan butter. Pecans are an absolute favourite. Do you store this in the fridge (if I missed that vit, excuse me), and for how long have you stored it?
The cookies with the pecan butter look fantastic, and I think I will have my partner play with your pancake recipe to make waffles (we are waffle girls, and it must be easy to swap it up).
Thank you so much Leah! Pecans are my favorite too! I store it in the fridge so it stays fresh longer. I always store my nut butters in the fridge so they don’t go bad with all the natural oils in them. Let me know how the cookies or pancakes turn out, thank you!
Thank you for introducing me to the wonders of pecan butter! I am officially obsessed! I am new to your blog and really looking forward to making all your recipes! You are awesome!
Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback Diana! I’m so happy to hear you are “obsessed” with the pecan butter, I am too! You just GOT to make the Pecan Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies next..seriously, amazing. Then, move next to my Sweet Potato Caramel and you will really be obsessed! Thanks for the support! 🙂
My crack!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!