Kitchen success, the final hour.

You all are going to be very happy that you were patient because during the final hour of my kitchen-a-thon I was at work making something magical. I used, yet another, HEAB recipe (Heather, I promise I’m not stalking you) and made my very own nut butter! I was so excited to try this one as I have been wanting to for quite some time now. After getting my very first food processor a few months ago, this was the only recipe I wanted to try BUUUT I had to promise my husband I would eat up the 4 jars of nut butter we already had (like that was going to be a problem) in our fridge. Three long months and 4 empty nut butter jars later, I finally had my chance to recreate Heather’s homemade nut butter recipe. I could not believe how incredibly simple this was. All you literally do is dump your choice of nuts into the food processor and press ‘on’.

I used 16 oz of roasted unsalted almonds.

After a few minutes, your nuts will start looking a bit like this

clumping = progress

And then what will seem like an eternity and endless scraps later, you will get your desired product.

I added just a few pinches of sea salt to taste.

If you are planning on trying this recipe at home, I promise it will work but it takes some patience and occasional scrapping of the sides of your food processor. I had to pull up Heather’s recipe to make sure I wasn’t doing it wrong as it seemed like the butter consistency I longed for was not appearing. My food processor even shut off 3/4 of the way through the process. I just unplugged it and let it cool for 20 minutes or so and then fired her back up. I’m almost positive it did this because I used too many almonds at once. Next time I would use half of the amount and make two batches. You don’t need a terribly expensive food processor to do this either. I have an Oster 10 cup food processor from Wal-mart. My mother-in-law purchased mine on sale for my birthday and paid $75.00 for it. I have never heard of the brand before but it works like a charm. After my almond butter was done I poured it into a mason jar, capped it and set in the fridge.

My 16 0z bag of almonds made me a little over a cup and a half of nut butter.

This overly simple recipe is going to take over my life…seriously. I can make any kind of nut butter and any flavor. Next almond butter batch I make I want to add vanilla and cinnamon, mmmmm. Truly, the possibilities are endless. Heather, you are a genius! As I was cleaning the kitchen after making this, I noticed I had an ample amount of unsweetened shredded coconut and semi-sweet chocolate Bakers baking chips sitting in my pantry… yes! Chocolate coconut butter, her I come.

If you could create a nut butter, what would it be?

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