Honey Roasted Peanut Butter
Posted Oct 03, 2016, Updated Jul 14, 2024
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This honey roasted peanut butter is easy to make with 3 ingredients in 5 minutes. It’s seriously the most delicious peanut butter you will ever eat.
Today I am Elated. Ecstatic. Overjoyed. Delighted. Giddy and totally floating on cloud 9 over here…and it’s all because of this Homemade Honey Roasted Vanilla Bean Peanut Butter. Yes. You heard me right. Honey Roasted Peanut Butter consisting of Honey roasted peanuts, raw cocoa butter and aromatic vanilla beans come together to make this deliciously irresistible peanut butter.
I seriously couldn’t be any more in love with a spread. This homemade peanut butter recipe is creamy & dreamy and absolutely bursting with deep, rich flavors. Of course (you saw this coming), it is so easy to make (think less than 5 minutes) thanks to my Vitamix.
How to Make Honey Roasted Peanut Butter in a Vitamix!
If you love making homemade peanut butter like I do, then I absolutely recommend using a Vitamix blender. It does the job better than any other kitchen appliance out there. A food processor works too, but it takes a touch longer and the result isn’t quite as creamy.
Use the Tamper
The number one piece of advice I can give you when it comes to making homemade nut butter in the Vitamix is to use the tamper! As soon as you start blending use the tamper to push the peanuts into the blades! Don’t stop tamping until the mixture becomes smooth!
Add Other Ingredients Last & Pulse to Combine
Certain ingredients such as honey, maple syrup, etc. can cause nut butters to seize up and become difficult to blend. Be sure to add such ingredients after the nuts have reached your desired consistency to avoid this issue. Since the desired consistency has already been achieved, simply pulse to combine the extra ingredients.
It’s amazing how you can just toss the peanuts in the Vitamix, turn it on and watch the magic happen. See those flecks of vanilla bean perfection.
Homemade Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Recipe: Ingredients & Substitutions
As always, the quality of ingredients you use will determine the deliciousness of your final product. In my years of making homemade peanut butter.
Honey Roasted Peanuts
I have found that Trader Joe’s honey roasted peanuts yield the absolute best homemade peanut butter ever. If you’d prefer to use regular peanuts, or roast your own, that is totally great too.
Cocoa butter
Since I try to avoid dairy, it is hard for me to find ingredients that are excellent fat substitutes that don’t make the final product taste like coconut. However, this raw cocoa butter totally wins, plus it’s super high in antioxidants and smells like heaven. If you don’t keep cocoa butter on hand, feel free to substitute ghee or coconut oil.
Vanilla Beans
I have professed my love for vanilla beans in this recipe post. They impart such a deep, rich flavor to this peanut butter that I can’t even begin to explain in words. I seriously just grab a spoon and dive on in. I’ve made homemade peanut butter more times than I can count. But this recipe takes the cake. Of course, if you don’t have vanilla beans you could substitute vanilla extract…although I highly recommend using beans if you can. Vanilla bean paste is also a great alternative.
Recipe FAQs
Is eating peanut butter good for you?
Yes! Peanut Butter is rich with a variety of nutrients.
Yes! This peanut butter is extra creamy and well worth it!
Try slowly adding more cocoa butter until it is your desired texture.
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Homemade Honey Roasted Peanut Butter Recipe
Ingredients
- 16 oz (about 4 cups) Honey roasted peanuts*
- 2 TBS raw cocoa butter chopped
- ½ vanilla bean seeds
Instructions
- Pour honey roasted peanuts into the container of your Vitamix or Food Processor
- Turn Vitamix on to variable speed 1, gradually increasing to 8, using the tamper to mix the peanuts until they reach the consistency of a thick butter.
- Melt cocoa butter and add it to the Vitamix. Blend on high until smooth.
- Cut half of a vanilla bean in half lengthwise. Use a spoon to scrape the seeds from the pod.
- Add seeds to the Vitamix and blend on high for 30 second or until evenly combined.
- Remove and eat with a spoon!
- Store in an airtight glass container at room temperature or in the refrigerator!
Notes
Ingredient Substitution
Honey Roasted PeanutsI have found that Trader Joe’s honey roasted peanuts yield the absolute best homemade peanut butter ever. If you’d prefer to use regular peanuts, or roast your own, that is totally great too.
Cocoa butter
This raw cocoa butter totally wins, plus it’s super high in antioxidants and smells like heaven. If you don’t keep cocoa butter on hand, feel free to substitute ghee or coconut oil.
Vanilla Beans
If you don’t have vanilla beans you could substitute vanilla extract…although I highly recommend using beans if you can. Vanilla bean paste is also a great alternative.
Storage
Keep this in an airtight container for up to 2 months (if it lasts that long).Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Have you ever made peanut butter at home? What is your favorite flavor?
This homemade Honey Roasted Vanilla Bean Peanut Butter will seriously change your life. If you try it please let me know by taking a pic and tagging #joyfoodsunshine!
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I just gotta make this!! I’m a total peanut butter lover and this flavored honey version sounds so amazing – and looks absolutely incredible! I’m gonna have a hard time not just taking a spoon to the jar ALL day long 😉
YES! Peanut butter lovers unite!
I want this on everything, haha. It looks so good! <3 I love honey roasted peanuts, and the addition of vanilla makes this perfect! <3
LOL I have been eating it on everything all week long!
OOH WOW; I love roasted peanuts, and adding raw cocoa butter plus vanilla sounds absolutely delicious; do you find that the Vitamix is the best for nut butter? The only thing that I don’t like about it is that it gets stuck in the bottom? Although that means I can lick it out. 😀
Hey Emily! YES! I actually just got a newer Vitamix (750) and the container is wider so it’s SO much easier to get delicious goodies out of it than with my older, taller, skinner model! I do think the Vitamix yields the creamiest nut butters! Although if someone is in a pinch and doesn’t have a great blender then a food processor works too, it just takes longer to achieve a super creamy consistency!
Gosh, just this picture alone make my want to make this right now! I can’t wait to try this recipe at home!
I love the additional nutritional benefits from the raw cocoa butter too!
I wish I could lick the screen..in fact that’s the invention I need to work on…see amazing recipe and be able to taste it ASAP!
Oh my word if you invent that I will love you forever! <3
I love homemade nut butter – and the addition of vanilla sounds like a great added touch. It sounds like I need to pull out the ol’ food processor again soon! 🙂
Vanilla beans are my favorite! They impart such a deep, rich flavor!
I was drooling over this on Instagram and I love that you used cocoa butter in it because I have 2 big blocks to use up…. which I guess would be a lot of delicious nut butter! I love making my own nut butter at home and can’t wait to try this, I just need some honey roasted peanuts or I’d be in blending it right now!
Oh my you could make a truckload of delicious peanut butter!!!!
Honey roasted peanuts are my weakness. Actually so is anything vanilla flavoured. I got a vanilla scented candle last christmas, and it is the best thing that has ever happened to me!
I’d love to make my own peanut butter but I am terrified of breaking my flatmates blender.
You need to get yourself a Vitamix! 😉 Seriously it was the best investment I ever made! I use it so much! Do you have a food processor? Before I got a great blender I made nut butters in my food processor!
This peanut butter lover is drooling!!!
That makes two of us! Come on over and I’ll share! 😉
Love that this is made in the vitamix which means I’m gonna go do that soon! This nut butter plus apple slices sounds like the most perfect snack ever 🙂
YES! The Vitamix makes the most irresistibly creamy nut butters ever!