Making your own homemade nut milks is a valuable life skill. Yeah, even though buying non-dairy milks is easy as these days (thank goodness for that!), there’s something very satisfying about making your own.
You can just sort of sit there smiling smugly to yourself, knowing that you can do it for yourself. Any. time. you. want.
And while the stuff you buy at the store is pretty darn fabulous, there is something a little extra special about the homemade variety.
And of course, you get to make it as creamy as you want. Yes, that’s right – as creamy as you want.
And I think you want it creamy.
Super creamy. Dreamy creamy. Cashew milk moustache kind of creamy.
Coming right up!
What’s more – it doesn’t get easier than this.
With just 5 easy ingredients, a blender and a nut milk bag on hand, you can have creamy dreamy nut milk in minutes.
Okay….you do have to soak the nuts first….. for like, 4 hours.
But after THAT – it’s ready in minutes. 
So what do you think of this glorious cashew nut milk? Made it? Let us know how it went, rate the recipe and leave a comment.
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- 1 cup (150g) Cashews (soaked for 4 hours)
- 3 cups (720ml) Fresh Water
- 2 Tbsp (30ml) Maple Syrup
- 2 tsp (10ml) Vanilla Extract
- ¼ tsp Salt
- Take 1 cup of cashew nuts and soak them in fresh water for 4 hours.
- Pour off the soak water and rinse the nuts.
- Add the nuts to the blender with 3 cups of fresh water.
- Blend.
- Add the maple syrup, vanilla extract and salt and blend again until properly blended.
- Pour into a nut milk bag and strain it through the nut milk bag completely to remove any grittiness and leave a very smooth, creamy milk.
- Place into a glass container with a lid and keep refrigerated where it will keep for up to 3 days.
- Use in smoothies, over cereal, in tea and coffee, and just drink it as is.
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Why so many calories per serving?! The cashew milk found in supermarkets has around 35 cals/cup. It’s about unsweetened cashew milk, that’s true, but still… I like to make my own nut milk, but it’s very difficult for me to know the quantities 🙁
For example, I use 50 grams of almonds for 2 cups (500 ml) of water. I also use stevia to sweeten the nut milk and save some calories.
What quantity of cashews should I use when I make the milk so that it has like 35-40 calories / serving?
Hi Laura! I worked out the calories by adding in all the ingredients (full cup of cashews, maple syrup, vanilla, salt) and then dividing it by 3.5 to get the per cup calorie value. You do lose some of it when straining, but with cashew milk there is not much left behind so I didn’t take this into account when working it out. This is a particularly creamy version, it is definitely richer and creamier than the unsweetened store versions and you can definitely add in more water to thin it out and also lower the calorie count. I have no idea of the exact quantities you would need to use to get it to end up as low in calories as 35-40 per cup.
Delicious. Never buying it premade again and so easy.
Yay! Totally agree!!!