Name: Homemade Cashew Butter
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 30 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 3 cups raw unsalted cashews; 1/3 cup maple syrup; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon coconut oil

This Homemade Cashew Butter is creamy, delicious, and so easy to make! This recipe is a great base for more flavor combinations and only requires a few simple ingredients!

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Why Make Your Own Homemade Cashew Butter?

Buy the nuts in bulk and make it cheaper! – making your own cashew butter means that you can better control the price. Buy your cashews in bulk and when they are on sale to lower costs.
It has the best flavor! – there’s nothing like roasting your own cashews and making your own nut butter. It just has the best, most delicious flavor.
You can customize it! – this is. my personal favorite reason to make my own homemade nut butter. You can easily add different spices or sweeteners to make more yummy flavors of cashew butter.

Cashew Butter Ingredients

Raw Unsalted Cashews: you can find these in the bulk section of a grocery store or in the nut and seed aisle. You’ll be roasting the cashews before using so grab a bag of unsalted, raw cashews.

Maple Syrup: to sweeten things just a bit and give the cashew butter that delicious maple flavor. If you don’t have maple syrup you can use honey!

Vanilla Extract: this compliments the flavor of the roasted cashews so well!

Salt: to help balance out the flavors of the nut butter add a bit of salt.

Coconut Oil: this helps to make the cashew butter extra smooth and creamy. If you have a coconut allergy you can use another neutral flavored oil.

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How to Make Homemade Cashew Butter

Step One: Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

Step Two: Combine the cashews, maple syrup, and vanilla extract in a large mixing bowl and stir until the cashews are coated with the syrup.

Step Three: Spread the cashews in an even layer on the lined baking sheet and roast for 10 minutes or until they’ve begun to turn golden brown. Stirring occasionally.

Step Four: Place the slightly cooled cashews in the bowl of a food processor along with the sea salt. Process the nuts for about 10 minutes, scraping down the sides as necessary.

Step Five: Once the cashews have turned into a slightly creamy consistency add in the coconut oil and continue to process the cashew butter until it’s smooth and creamy.

Step Six: Tranfer the cashew butter into a jar and store in the fridge.

Optional Flavor Combinations

This cashew butter is a great base recipe for some fun flavor combinations! You can easily make your own flavored cashew butter with just a few simple additions.

Honey & Cinnamon Cashew Butter – try swapping the maple syrup for honey and add a 1 teaspoon (or more!) of cinnamon to the nut butter.
Chocolate Cashew Butter – want chocolate cashew butter? try adding 1/2 tablespoon of cocoa powder.
Pumpkin Spice Cashew Butter – this may be my favorite version! add 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice to the nut butter
Chai Cashew Butter – another delicious combo! add 1 teaspoon of chai spice to the cashew butter.

How Long Does Cashew Butter Last?

This cashew butter will last 3-4 weeks when stored in an air-tight container in the fridge. I highly recommend storing the nut butter in the fridge to keep it from going rancid.

Ways to Use Your Homemade Cashew Butter

In a batch of Chocolate Raspberry Cashew Butter Cups
Top these Gluten Free Blueberry Waffles with a drizzle of cashew butter
Swap the almond butter for cashew butter in these Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups
Slice an apple, sprinkle on some cinnamon, and serve the apple slices with a spoonful of cashew butter
In this delicious Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie
To add some healthy fats to these Strawberry Overnight Oats

More Nut Butter Recipes to Love

Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups

Peanut Butter Banana Overnight Oats

Healthy Homemade Peanut Butter Cups

Honey Roasted Peanut Butter

3 Ingredient Honey Roasted Almond Butter

I hope you give this Homemade Cashew Butter a try! It’s simple and easy to make!

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