Homemade Cashew Butter (Better Than Store-Bought)

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Make luscious homemade cashew butter with this simple recipe! The trick is to lightly toast your cashews before blending for the best flavor and silkiest texture.

Updated byKathryne Tayloron August 28, 2024

Have you experienced cashew butter?It is sublime and somehowmuchmore delicious than a handful of toasted cashews. A spoonful of homemade cashew butter tastes like a treat. It’s nearly as enticing as cookie dough, as far as I’m concerned—sometimes I add a few chocolate chips for the full cookie dough effect.

This homemade cashew butter is easy to make in a food processor.The trick is to lightly toast your cashews before blending for the best flavor and texture. Even so, cashew butter has a more neutral flavor than most other nut butters, making it wonderfully versatile.

Homemade cashew butter contains no additives like sunflower oil;it’s made simply with cashews and a dash of salt to enhance the flavor. Since it’s so fresh, it offers far better flavor than store-bought options.

Store-bought cashew butter can be quite expensive—I often balk at the nearly twenty-dollar jars at Whole Foods. Making it at home costs about half as much. We could get into a philosophical debate about time versus money, or just make cashew butter in the same length of time. Let’s make some already.

Cashew Butter Tips

You’ll find the full recipe below, along with a few notes and tips before you get started.

Toast your nuts before blending.Warm nuts blend more readily than room-temperature ones. When I tried making cashew butter with plain raw cashews in my Vitamix, I had trouble blending them and resorted to adding olive oil to make it work. On top of that, cashew butter made with freshly toasted nuts tastes extra special.

You’re in charge of how “toasty” your cashew butter tastes.My recipe suggests baking them for 10 minutes, which brings out the cashews’ best flavor without tasting overtly roasted. If you’d like greater depth of flavor, leave the nuts in for a few extra minutes. Stir them at the 10-minute mark, then keep a close eye on them so the nuts around the edges don’t burn.

Use a food processor rather than a blender.I love my fancy Vitamix, but I’m on Team Food Processor for nut butter (here’s mine). The food processor takes a few minutes longer but doesn’t require my involvement.

Watch How to Make Cashew Butter

How to Serve Cashew Butter

I love a spoonful of cashew butter from time to time. Here are some more ways to enjoy it:

More Nut Butters to Try

Please let me know how your cashew butter turns out in the comments.I always love hearing from you.

Homemade Cashew Butter (Better Than Store-Bought)

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Make creamy cashew butter at home! It’s easy in your food processor and far more affordable than store-bought. Recipe yields 1 ¾ cups.

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Change it up:Create a mixed nut butter by substituting raw almonds, walnuts or pecans for some of the cashews. Toast them all together on the pan.

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