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May 22, 2020 By Brandy Leave a Comment

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Homemade Peanut Butter Recipe (Video)

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Make your own homemade peanut butter with the kids for a fun activity and snack! Just like the delicious natural peanut butter that you grind at the health food store. 
Peanut butter is delicious on homemade bread or served with a fruit platter. This post was originally shared in 2009 and now includes a video and updated photography.

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The kids received a little cookbook for Christmas with easy recipes to make. One of the recipes was for peanut butter. We’ve made our own peanut butter a few times now, and have experimented with the amount of peanuts vs. oil. Here is what we think is the absolute best combination!

What is the difference between natural peanut butter and traditional peanut butter?

If you’ve ever been to a health food store, you’ve probably seen a natural peanut butter grinder. There is only one ingredient in natural peanut butter: peanuts. My kids love grinding their own, and filling up a container to bring home. You can also buy natural peanut butter in the peanut butter aisle. It will be labeled as “natural”, and is free of hydrogenated oils or any added ingredients.

Traditional peanut butter spread, the kind that you find in the peanut butter aisle, often includes additional ingredients like sugar, salt, and hydrogenated oils.

We don’t have a commercial grinder or powerful food processor, so we add a small amount of oil to get our peanut butter as smooth as the one from the store. Because we add a tiny bit of oil it isn’t considered natural peanut butter, but is pretty darn close.

jar of peanut butter with lid

2 Ingredient Peanut Butter

The ingredients are simple:

  1. Peanuts
  2. Oil

The best peanuts to use are roasted peanuts. Roasted peanuts come in unsalted, salted, and honey roasted. We recommend using unsalted. You can control the salt content by adding a small amount of salt to your peanut butter if you’d like.

The obvious choice for oil would be peanut oil, but if you don’t have any you can use sunflower or canola. If you own a heavy duty food processor you might not need oil at all. I use our blender to make peanut butter, and it does a great job, but a couple tablespoons of oil makes the peanut butter nice and smooth.

open jar of homemade peanut butter

Peanut Butter Add-Ins

Here are some simple ways to customize your peanut butter:

Add 1 1/2 tsp. honey
Add 1 tsp. kosher salt
apple slice dipped in jar of peanut butter
Homemade peanut butter will last in the refrigerator for up to 2 months.
open jar of homemade peanut butter

Homemade Peanut Butter

Make your own homemade peanut butter with the kids for a fun activity and snack! Just like the delicious natural peanut butter that you grind at the health food store. 
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 5 minutes
Servings: 24
Calories: 108kcal

Equipment

  • food processor or blender
  • spatula
  • measuring spoons
  • rubber spatula

Ingredients

  • 2 cup roasted peanuts unsalted
  • 2 tbsp. oil
  • salt or honey to taste

Instructions

  • Place peanuts in food process or blender. Blend until it resembles coarse sand (30-60 seconds).
  • Open lid and push peanuts down with spatulata.
  • Add oil. Replace lid.
  • Blend until smooth (about 60 seconds).
  • Add a tiny amount of salt or honey, if desired.

Notes

This recipe makes 1 1/2 c. of peanut butter. Store in an air tight container in the refrigerator up to 2 months.

Nutrition

Calories: 108kcal

You can make other nut butters like almond butter, too!

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Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!

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