I enjoy making homemade almond butter, partly because it’s delicious, but mostly because it’s SO easy. I slather it on top of healthy banana pancakes, throw it into flourless almond butter cookies, breakfast cookies, banana chocolate chip breakfast cookies, healthy berry streusel bars, and have even used it to make these peanut butter bars before. I eat it with apples, crackers, pitas, bananas, with jam, nutella, in this peanut butter jelly smoothie, on frozen yogurt, and on waffles. I am all about almond butter, all the time. And you will be too once you taste how incredible this stuff is! Making it is a cinch. First, start with whole almonds. I typically use dry-roasted, unsalted almonds. Feel free to use salted if you prefer. Sometimes I add a few honey roasted peanuts to the mixture so there is a slight honey-roasted taste to my almond butter. That’s optional. Here is the blender/food processor I have. This Ninja comes with a large container for blending drinks and a smaller container I use for food processing. I make all of my nut butters in the smaller container. Blend and pulse the almonds for minutes until it reaches this consistency: Crumbly, gritty almond meal. Stir it around with a spoon and scrape down the sides. Then, continue to blend until smooth: I want to (and have) just dug into all that almond butter gloriousness with a spoon. It is unbelievable! Making the homemade almond butter will probably take you about 5 minutes, depending on your food processor/blender’s strength. So there you have it. Isn’t making almond butter at home simple?
