Cashew Butter Recipe (2024)

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Make your own cashew butter with just a few simple ingredients, a food processor and 10 minutes! Plus, we’ll walk you through how to make it creamy or crunchy in this cashew butter recipe. And best of all, no added sugar or other additives involved. Enjoy!

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Cashew Butter is Everything

With a spoon, spread on a piece of bread, drizzled on banana….this cashew butter recipe is everything. Anyone else out there love the perfectly sweet creaminess of cashew butter?! We find ourselves gravitating toward cashew butter instead of peanut butter all the time in FFHQ. And because of that perfect natural sweetness, we decided to leave out any sort of sweetener. But you are more than welcome to add in some honey or maple syrup to sweeten it up a bit! And looking for other add-ins? Read on for more of our faves 😀

How to Make Cashew Butter

This cashew butter recipe is not complicated or time consuming! Seriously, it’s only 2 steps. So, get ready for the most delicious homemade cashew butter of your life, and say goodbye to spending $8+ on a jar of store-bought cashew butter.

Step 1: Food Process Those Cashews!

Place roasted cashews in a high-speed food processor and process on high for about 5-7 minutes stopping to scrape the sides every so often. The longer you process it, the drippier it will be. If you’re having a tough time getting your cashews to blend until smooth, consider adding in 1 or 2 tablespoons of melted coconut oil to reach your desired creaminess.

Looking to make this cashew butter recipe crunchy? Simply stir in 1/2 cup of chopped cashews into your creamy cashew butter, and voila! Crunchy cashew butter.

Step 2: Enjoy! And Save Some for Later

Store your cashew butter in an air-tight glass container for up to 3 months, but we’re betting it will be long gone by then, and you’ll be whipping up another batch.

Team Creamy or Team Crunchy?

I’m usually a smooth nut butter kind of girl, but this crunchy / creamy combo was a nice change up. Depending on how chunky you like your peanut butter, feel free to stir in 1/2 cup of chopped cashews to chunk it up a bit, or skip this step entirely to keep your cashew butter nice and creamy.

Cashew Butter Add-Ins

  • Sprinkles
  • Vanilla bean
  • Chia seeds
  • Maple syrup
  • Honey
  • Lemon zest
  • Sea salt
  • Dates

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Cashew Butter Recipe

Make your own cashew butter with just a few simple ingredients, a food processor and 10 minutes! Plus, we'll walk you through how to make it creamy or crunchy in this cashew butter recipe. And best of all, no added sugar or other additives involved. Enjoy!

Prep:10 minutes minutes

Cook:0 minutes minutes

Total:10 minutes minutes

Fat 14

Carbs 10

Protein 6

Yield: 8

Print Rate

Ingredients

  • 2 cups cashews roasted and lightly salted

Optional

  • 1-3 tablespoons coconut oil
  • 1/2 cup chopped roasted cashews

Instructions

  • Place roasted cashews in a high-speed food processor and process on high for about 5-7 minutes stopping to scrape the sides every so often. The longer you process it, the drippier it will be.

  • Store in an air-tight glass container for up to 3 months.

Tips & Notes

  • Optional: add 1 to 2 tablespoons of coconut oil if you are having trouble getting your cashew butter to the preferred consistency.
  • Optional: stir in 1/2 cup chopped cashews to make this crunchy cashew butter.
  • Yields: 1 cup

Nutrition facts

Calories: 180kcal Carbohydrates: 10g Protein: 6g Fat: 14g Fiber: 1g Sugar: 2g

Author: Lee Funke

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Lee is the founder of Fit Foodie Finds and based in Minneapolis, MN. She started this website in 2010 as a way to share her love for real food and wellness. The internet has changed so much since then and so has Fit Foodie Finds. Today we're a female-run recipe website publishing hundreds of tried and true recipes developed and tested by our team.

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Anna

Posted on 8/28/2015

Next time you could freeze the nut butter and you’d pass through security just fine!

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/29/2015

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WAHTTTTTTT. You are a genius. I didn’t even think about doing that. Have you ever frozen nut butter?

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Anna

Posted on 8/29/2015

Reply to Lee Funke

nope! only reeses and it’s delicious and basically the same thing.

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Posted on 8/28/2015

That nut butter looks mighty dreamy <3 unfortunately I STILL don't have a food processor – moving in to the new place was expensive enough for now…but I'll invest in one some day and then make this! Cashews are my favourite nut atm!

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Ann

A food processor will CHANGE YOUR LIFEEEEEEEE!

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Laura

Posted on 1/9/2020

Reply to Ann

Looks great! How long does it last after the air tight container is open? Also, can it be put in a cupboard after opening or the fridge?

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Posted on 8/28/2015

I’ve never made cashew butter before, thanks for showing us how! It looks so creamy and delicious!

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Posted on 8/28/2015

GImme this now!!

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I made a batch of creamy vanilla cashew butter this week, no sweetener. We’re on the same wave length 😉

BTW, did you make your white wood photo “backdrop” or buy it??

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Hillary | Nutrition Nut on the Run

Wahhhhhhh. SO FLIPPING GOOD. So that thing is Davida’s! Her man candy made it for her and she was suppose to make me one for my bday, but that was in April 😛

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Tina

Posted on 8/28/2015

I love making your Vanilla Almond Butter! Just made it Sunday, and its almost gone. I will have to check out this butter now!

I do have a question — what kind of food processor do you have? I received one for my wedding last year and sometimes when I am making nut butter I think it’s too small/ yours looks like it has more than two blades to crush the nuts. I would love to get another one just to have on hand because I use them so often! Thank you!

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Tina

Ahhhh that stuff is so flipping good! I recently got a new food processor/blender duo. I was using Kitchen Aid and it just wasn’t doing the trick. The one I have now is ON POINT. Here’s a link —> http://amzn.to/1Kqi4Me

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Posted on 8/28/2015

Yes, yes I love cashew butter! Was the first nut butter I ever made myself <3 But cashews are my favorite nut, so it's obvious 😉

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine

Glad your first was cashew 🙂 THE BESTTTTTTT.

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Posted on 8/28/2015

Um hi. Yes please.

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Megan @ Straight From The Jar

LOLZ.

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Posted on 8/28/2015

I’ve never made cashew butter before because cashews are my FAVORITE and I know I’d eat that whole container within a day.

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Maureen

GIRLFRAN. You need to make cashew butter. Your life will be changed.

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Posted on 8/28/2015

Nut butters are the best. I always have to hold myself back not to eat them by the spoonful. I never made cashew butter, but this looks a nice place to start.

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Kristina

Spoon + nut butter = love. That is all.

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Posted on 8/28/2015

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I’m right there with you, I LOVE nut butters, and I always make mine at home. So far I only made peanut, almon and walnut butter, but since I always have cashews on hand I’mm have to make this, I’m sure it would be a hit 🙂 (I’ll just have to erecise some self-control and not eat the nuts beforehand 😉

Enjoy Toronto, I hope you’ll make a post and share some photos of your time there once you get back. I’ve never been to Toronto/Canada yet, but I hear it is a beautiful country/city.

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Lee Funke

Posted on 8/28/2015

Reply to Stella @ Stellicious Life

Homemade nut butters are THE BOMB. I am definitely planning on doing a recap post of my time in Toronto 🙂 Don’t you worry!

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