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Move over peanut butter, cashew butter has entered the chat! Cashew butter is the richer, cooler, and creamier relative of peanut butter and it can similarly be used on toast, oatmeal, or eaten straight out of the jar.
There are so many nut butter jar (plus allergy-friendly soy and seed butter options) on shelves today. Peanut butter, walnut butter, sunflower butter, soy butter…and that’s just the first shelf!
Many commerically-made nut butters also contain oils and other unnecessary ingredients to make them last longer or taste sweeter. I try to get nut butters with little or no added oil, and that let the natural flavors shine.
I’ve wanted to try cashew butter for a while, but have always been thrown off by the price. The Giant Eagle near me sells tiny containers of cashew butter for no less than 7 dollars and other cashew butters and mixed nut butters are up to 15 dollars! There had to be a cheaper way!
Enter my Ninja Foodi blender. I’ve used it regularly for smoothies, dips, and juices, but this was my first time using it to make nut butter. It was so easy and much more cost-friendly than buying cashew butter pre-made.
Salted Maple Cashew Butter (Vegan + Oil-Free
Fancy yet affordable, Salted Maple Cashew Butter uses basic pantry items to make a topping you’ll keep reaching for again and again.
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Ingredients
2 cup cashews
3 tablespoon dairy-free milk
2 tablespoon maple syrup
1 tablespoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
Servings:
About 10 oz of cashew butter
Directions
- Place cashews in a medium mixing bowl.
- Stir in maple syrup, vanilla and salt. Set aside
- Set oven to 350° F and place coated cashews on lined baking sheet.
- When oven is warm, roast cashews for 12 to 15 minutes, or until lightly toasted.
- Take cashews out and let them cool for at least 10 minutes. Then, pour half of the cashews into blender.
- Process for several cycles. When the cashews are ground up and starting to release their natural oils, add a splash of dairy-free milk.
- When cashews are fully blended into butter, scoop out into a mason jar or other sealed container. Process the second half of cashews with the same method.
