Make the most delicious homemade cashew butter with this easy 2-ingredient recipe. It’s rich and super creamy, and ready in 10 minutes.
Wanna make your own homemade cashew butter? It’s too easy.
It’s just 2-ingredients and about 10 or so minutes and you have beautifully creamy cashew butter.
Of course it’s super easy to just go and buy a jar of cashew butter at the store, but the benefits of making your own are that you can save money and also that you get a really fresh and delicious batch of nut butter. It really does seem to taste so much better than what you can buy in the store.
We love making our own nut butters, check out our homemade peanut butter and homemade almond butter recipes too.
How To Make Cashew Butter
You will find full instructions and measurements in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.
- Add roasted, salted cashews to the food processor and process. It will start off crumbly and then will start to clump and stick to the sides.
- Stop the food processor and scrape down the sides and then start it up again.
- While the machine is running, pour in the melted coconut oil.
- Keep processing until it reaches a smooth, creamy cashew butter consistency.
Top Tip: Make it in a food processor. It is possible to make nut butters in a blender but I find it much harder to do. A food processor is the best and easiest way to make nut butters.
Ingredient Notes
- Roasted and salted cashew nuts. The easiest and best tasting option is to use roasted and salted cashews. Roasted cashews process into a nut butter much more easily than raw cashews. The flavor is also really good with roasted cashews.
- Coconut Oil. We used melted coconut oil but you can actually use any oil. The oil really helps the process along and it goes much faster. If you prefer not to use oil you can omit it, but it will likely take a few minutes longer.
Storing and Freezing
Keep your cashew butter stored in a glass jar in the fridge where it will stay good for 2 weeks or longer.
It is also freezer friendly if you’d like to freeze some. Thaw it overnight in the fridge when you’re ready to use it.
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Cashew Butter
Ingredients
- 3 cups Roasted, Salted Cashews (450g)
- 2 Tablespoons Coconut Oil Melted
Instructions
- Add the roasted, salted cashew nuts to the food processor and process. It will start off crumbly then will start to clump and stick to the sides. Stop the food processor and scrape down the sides and then start it up again.
- While the machine is running, pour in the melted coconut oil.
- Keep processing until it reaches a smooth, creamy cashew butter consistency.
Notes
- If you only have raw cashew nuts then it will be best to roast them first. Place the cashews in a single layer on a baking sheet and roast them at 350°F for around 10-12 minutes until nicely roasted. Keep a watch on them so they don’t burn. Then add to the food processor and follow the rest of the directions. If you do it this way, you’ll need to add in a little salt to taste.
- It is possible to make this without any added oil, but it does tend to take longer.
- Keep it stored in a glass container (covered) in the fridge for 2 weeks or longer.
- This recipe makes around 1 ½ cups of cashew butter.
- This recipe was first published in November 2017. Now updated with new photos and extra tips.
How much salt is needed per cup of cashews? I find unsalted nut butters undesirable. Even salted cashews have a minimum amount of salt so I’d like to know how much salt to add.
If you use roasted salted cashews then no extra salt is needed. But if you do feel it’s needed, then add it to taste.
Thank you Alison for the recipe!!!! I tried it and it is amazing!!!! I always love cashew nuts but never knew cashew nut butter is so easy to make. My cashew nuts were a little bit burnt but it wasn’t way over-burnt — I was pleasantly surprised to find that it gives me only mildly toasted nutty flavour and the nut butter colour is a bit darker than your pictures. All in all it was good!!!!! I am so glad I saw your recipe before spending the money to buy the cashew nut butter from the store! Thank you so much!!!!
Hi Agnes, so glad to hear it was a success! Thanks for the great review!
This was very tasty! ????
i’m unsure why mine differed so much but at the 12 minute mark at 350 (i use an oven thermometer) mine were just on the verge of being burnt while roasting! i’m glad i didn’t set my timer for any longer! also – i needed to add almost double the amount of oil…
anyway, thank you for sharing how simple it is to make your own…store bought cashew butter by my flat in brooklyn is like 16 dollars. hahah
Hi Liz, glad you were keeping an eye out so that they didn’t burn and thanks for the feedback! Yes, it can be a lot more affordable to make it yourself! 🙂
Used no oil, jus about 2TBLP water. Also, added about a 1/2TBSP maple syrup (I made myself, last winter). Came out very good. Started with the raw cashews and roasted for 12 minutes on convection.
Very nice and eating warm on some multigrain bread. Excellent.
Just left the carnivore world after Christmas. Feel much better already. Hope I can stay with it.
5 star.
Thanks so much Mike! 🙂
Thank you for this simple and easy recipe. I roasted my raw cashews and am delighted with the result. Using some of the nut butter to make chocolate cupcake “brownies “. Thanks again ????
Awesome! I’m so glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thanks for the wonderful review. 🙂
I used raw frozen 2 tbs melted coconut oil. Started in blender. Wrong food processor in seconds. Yummy.
Can’t wait to try it….when I get a food processor
Soooo Good! Thank you for this wonderful recipe!
So glad you liked it! Thanks for the wonderful rating! 🙂
It tasted real good.
Excellent! 🙂
How long does it keep? Does it keep best in the refrigerator or pantry?
Keep it stored in a jar in the fridge and it will keep well for 2 weeks or more.
Why is it necessary to roast the cashews? Can’t you just use raw cashews? I have a giant bag of cashew pieces that i bought that I’m using to make cashew milk. Can I use those?
Hi Michael, you definitely can make it with raw cashews but it just takes a lot longer, when they’re roasted they release their oils much quicker, so the whole process is quick and easy.
I am planning on trying several of the recipes, question, is the coconut oil refined or virgin?
I used virgin in this case, but whatever you had on hand or tend to prefer would be fine for this. 🙂
Rich and creamy nutty butter
Yum! A major staple!