Homemade Almond Butter

If you have 20 minutes to spare, almonds and a food processor, you need to make this!

I was craving almond butter to spread on some apple slices, but unfortunately I didn’t have any left in my pantry. I did have raw almonds however. After eyeing my food processor for a few moments, I tried it out: raw almonds in, sweet and creamy butter out. This is perfection!

Here is what you need:

• 1 cup almonds

Here is what you do:

1. Place the almonds in your food processor. Process with the ‘S’ blade. I gave my machine a one minute break after each 3 minutes of processing so that it would cool off. This also gave me a chance to scrape down the sides of the bowl. It took 20 minutes of processing for me to get a nice butter consistency. This will give you 1/2 cup butter.

That’s all there is to it! The resulting butter is creamy, sweet and so satisfying. There is no way I will ever buy any nut butter ever again. And, I’m super excited to try to make hazelnut butter, walnut butter, sunflower seed butter, macadamia butter and all the combinations in between. I think I’ll also try to add spices or cocoa powder to some. A glorious and delicious future to come!

I really enjoy how simple and cheap this is. It was perfect and so fast! The almond flavour was intense, and I was surprised to see how sweet it was. There is no comparison possible between this fresh almond butter and the store-bought kinds. Let me know if you make your own nut butter and what’s your favourite!

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