Almond butter and I really aren’t the best of friends. I find it the most difficult to make out of all the nut butters and I also don’t particularly like its taste. I find it a bit bland and bitter. My daughter doesn’t like it either unfortunately.
That said, I DO think almond butter is the perfect ingredient for all sorts of things- you can add a spoonful to your smoothie, use it to replace peanut butter in cookies, and create plenty of flavored almond butters from the original recipe (chocolate, coconut, m0cha, etc).
I used my Vitamix to make this batch here. I very much prefer using my food processor though. It’s just so much more of a pain with the blender because you have to keep pressing the mixture down with the tamper so it can run against the blades. Plus, it seems like it causes the blender to overheat pretty easily. Really weird.
Making your Almond Butter is really just a matter of letting it process long enough. Most other nut butters break down a little easier. Almonds are a pretty hard nut so it takes some time.
Once you think the Almond Butter is done. Keep the food processor running another 2 minutes, just to make sure. Nut butters like to play tricks on you. They will look smooth and broken down (you’ll think they’re done), but smooth is not the same thing as creamy. Your nut butter looks smooth? So keep it going and it will break down to a luscious, creamy consistency.
Is my emphasis on doing this a little overkill? Sorry about that… but I’ve been tricked a couple of times into thinking my Almond Butter was done and I don’t want you to be fooled as easily. Don’t be impatient like me. Just wait it out.
- 2 cups soaked and dehydrated almonds
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
- ⅛ tsp kosher salt
- In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the steel blade, place the almond, coconut oil, and salt.
- Process, scraping down the bowl every few minutes, for about 15 minutes or until the almonds have broken down to a creamy-smooth consistency (they will go from coarse chop, fine chop, powder, chunky butter, ball of butter, and finally to a creamy smooth butter).
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