The Battle Of The Nut Butters

I love almond butter and only recently started eating it since I kinda don’t like nuts. I am getting there though. I think cashew butter sounds great. Maybe my mom will send me some.

Love, love LOVE sunflower seed butter, it’s made my the same company as your Cashew Butter…Nuts to you Nut Butter.
Coconut butter is also amazing, I highly recommend them both!

I have that same cashew butter right now! I’ve been putting it on my oats with molasses ;)

I’m still a natural peanut butter gal, but crunchy almond butter comes in a close second! Pecan butter, hazelnut butter and macadamia butter are all amazing too. They get really liguidy so they’re great for drizzling on things. Not a huge seed butter fan either, never cared for the pumpkin or sunflower stuff I tried.

I’ve only ever tried peanut butter. I’m a healthy living loser. :-(

i looove your breakfast cakes!
and the nut butter that has my heart is called nut n’ budder, it’s made with peanuts, almonds, flax oil and a bit of sugar.
i think canadians definitely got gypped when it comes to nut butters. i’ve never tried barney butter, not to mention all of pb & co’s amazing flavours (liiike dark chocolate dreams or mighty maple) and i wouldn’t even know they existed if it wasn’t for food blogs.
i’ve been really curious about coconut butter too, so go nuts! (….. hahhhh. no nut pun intended.)

Cashew butter IS delicious – tastes exactly like cashews! I would recommend sunflower seed butter!! It’s absolutely amazing. My favorite by far.

Sunflower seed butter, especially from Trader Joe’s, is delicious!

Soynut butter is so-so, but the chocolate soynut butter from Stop & Shop is like crack.

I used to think pumpkin seed butter tasted weird too, but it’s definitely an accustomed taste that I really enjoy now. You just have to aclimatize yourself.

Also to die for is sunflower seed butter! So, so good!

I’ve tried SO many nut butters, but nothing beats almond butter (#1) and peanut butter (#2). Cashew butter is very good and so is hazelnut butter, but I wasn’t a fan of the coconut variety. Can’t wait to see what you try next!

xxoo
Heather

I love almond butter and peanut butter is a close second. While I didn’t mind cashew butter, I haven’t gone back for seconds.

You should try sunflower butter! It’s amazing :)

COCONUT BUTTER!! SO GOOD. For a while coconut butter sandwiches replaced my PBJ and it was like having dessert for lunch every day =D

I bought Artisana brand online. It was so fab. yum yum yum ^_^

Hi Angela,

Love reading your blog. I’ve recently been creating my own nut butters which are so easy to do! Any nut combo you like in a food processor and off you go! I just made some white chocolate peanut butter, honey roasted peanut butter and honey roasted mixed nut butter with white chocolate and unsweetened coconut. So much cheaper than buying and so fresh and you can control what you put in there. You can also control consistency from smooth to crunchy. So delicious!

Jonna

Barney butter is AMAZING! I think I need to branch out more in the world of nut butters, I’ve only eat peanut and almond!

Hi Angela, Glaser Organic Farms makes some yummy nut butters (their Macadamia butter is super creamy and yummy). They are in Florida and have awesome Raw and vegan products so maybe you can stop by on your road trip. I live in Cali, but I have ordered from them twice and LOVE their stuff! Trader Joes makes a to die for Raw Crunchy Almond Butter that is only $5 yeah!

I like Hemp Seed Butter too from Manitoba Harvest.

Have a great day!

Sunflower seed butter. Trader Joe’s is the best!

Ive been wanting to try cashew butter. I imagine it would be pretty fantastic.

I wasnt a fan of the pumpkin seed butter either. Its sitting in my cupboard practically untouched. I was expecting SO much more.

Im in LOVE with almond butter, and now dark chocolate peanut butter. SO good!!

Batters and butters! Awesome! The breakfast cake looks awesome raw…I’m always a fan of “licking the bowl” so I just might have to try it out. :) Also …LOVE nuts butters of every kind…well, that I’ve tried. I have yet to try Cashew butter…but I’ll get on that.

Favorite nut butter is almond, least favorite is cashew.

I have tried almond butter–both the raw and roasted. Of the two I preferred the raw, as the roasted tasted rancid (even though it was far from the expiration date) and I had to take it back. Because everyone raves about AB so much, I finally cracked down and bought a like $10 jar of the raw almond butter, hoping I would like that. It is ok, but not that great. I’ll honestly have to work to finish it.

All in all, I prefer my $2 jar of natural peanut butter, which is much better for my wallet. I originally attempted to switch to AB because I read that peanuts contained alfatoxins–or something like that–but then I heard that a lot of produce does too and it’s not a big deal.

I’m still not sure what to believe, and I would eventually like to transition to a raw butter, as I’m trying to eat more raw foods, but for now I’m enjoying my peanut butter. It IS really important to me that it is natural–and preferably organic–though. I like the only ingredient to be peanuts–not even any salt. It is like a completely different spread than it’s Skippy or Peter Pan imitators. Those taste so fake and sweet–even the consistency is unnerving. Oh, and I’ve tried Naturally More Peanut Spread and was not a fan. It feels like chalk when you stir it and gets hard and dried on when you try to heat it or bake with it. It was good in homemade peanut butter cups, though.

I’m wondering if the brand of almond butter I tried was bad. It’s Maranatha. Has anyone had good luck with them? Perhaps TJ’s AB or Barney Butter will be different? I did make homemade AB once (just almonds and almond milk blended into a butter) and that was pretty good (I loved it spread on fresh peaches or nectarines!)

Oh, and I love apple butter. I would like to make my own one of these days.

As for butters I would like to try: Pumpkin butter, pumpkin SEED butter, walnut butter, sunflower seed butter, cashew butter (the cashew butter pictured here looks really dark; the one’s I’ve seen are white), macadamia butter, coconut butter, cacao butter…the list goes on.

Wow, this comment is practically a post in itself. Sorry about that. I guess I just have a lot of thoughts on nut butters?!

You just might like this. Mix 1/4 cup of peanut butter with 1/4 cup pumpkin butter (or just plain, canned pumpkin — which I often have on hand). I happen to really like this as a dip for bananas or on a slice of bread for a quick snack.

Great looking breakfast! I really want to try cashew butter but it is so expensive over here :(

We are having similar weird weather. It’s been pouring all day.

My favorite nut butter is raw crunchy almond butter. For some reason the roasted and salted is weird to me.

Ohhh, you made the breakfast cakes raw!!! Do you just follow the recipe and not bake it? (Of course, I would use oat groats instead of rolled oats). :)

I recently made my own walnut butter (just put walnuts in the food processor and process until smooth). It’s quite good; because it’s such a high-fat nut, it works VERY well as a butter!

I need to look into this raw breakfast cake-um YOM.

I’m so glad you liked the cranberry jelly :) I’ve never had cashew butter but now I want to try.

I too, had an obsession with Barney butter-it was all I ate for awhile there. I’m on a peanut butter kick right now.

I think my least favorite is soy nut butter and my most favorite is a tie between almond and peanut-though pecan butter (when I try it) may top the list.

I still love the good ol Almond Butter best. Cashew is nice though because it gets so darned smooth and creamy! I have Coconut Butter in my cupboard! (People will try and tell you – that coconut butter is the oil in solid form – they lie! It’s not the truth)

Artisana is the only coconut butter I’ve seen, and my local organic grocery as well as Whole Foods just started carrying it in Canada. (Just recently) It’s not as ‘buttery’ as you’d think – but still FABU! Dried coconut and the oil blended to a paste? Hell yeah sign me up. :P I eat it straight out of the jar, or sweetened with agave on toast. It can be a bit dry but I’d like to try making a frosting with that and a bit of agave. ‘whip’ it up or something.

Artisana also makes “Cacao Bliss” which is coconut butter with cacao powder and agave. Now THAT is what dreams are made of!

Let me know if you can’t find it Angela – and I”ll mail it from VanCity Gladly!

I can’t believe you haven’t tried coconut butter, I would imagine that you would love it! SO many amazing, amazing baking opportunities!!

Those toast pics were drool-worthy! I haven’t tried much beyond pb, but I am not really an almond butter fan. Sunbutter might be my favorite food on the planet though!

I love the idea of cranberry jam (recipe?) and cashew butter. Another one to try is walnut butter. I actually make it myself (saves a few bucks when you get nuts on sale). I just toast 1 pound of walnuts in 1 350 oven for 5 – 8 minutes. Cool. Then I put them in a food processor. Let the processor run for quite a while, 2 – 4 minutes. It will slowly grind up into ‘butter’. I add kosher salt mid way through the processing. Store in frig. Absolutely delish!

SOYNUT Butter!! YUM.

Soy nut butter, hands down. So yummy!

Lots of very strong opinions on what nut butter is best. Very interesting to read through. I think I like Barney butter the best, but its a little to pricey to eat regularly!

I always like the batter of cakes and cookies better than when it’s baked. So good!

I have tried peanut butter, and almond butter … and I think that is it. I bought apple butter but haven’t had a chance to try it yet – maybe tomorrow!!

Ange, you MUST try Naturally Nutty’s Vanilla Almond Butter. And Hazelnut butter is AMAZING!! And the Cacao Bliss is even better than the coconut butter.

I would have to say on a day to day basis I just can’t get enough peanut butter in my life. I like almond butter on certain things like carrots + fruit but not as much on a sandwich. You need to try pecan butter. It is SINful!!! Oh yeah, and coconut butter is completely creamy and amazing as well. But seriously…try some pecan butter!!! Artisana is the only company I have seen that makes it but I’m sure there are more. I have heard good things about sunflower butter and that it is similar to pnut butter…maybe you’d like that more than the pumpkin seed butter? I could talk about butters all day ;) Ta ta!

Isn’t cashew butter incredible? I tried it for the first time this week too, and it definitely gives PB a run for it’s money!

I’ve been DYING to try cashew butter! It looks delicious. I recently discovered my love of cashews, and ever since, I’ve been convinced cashew butter would be my new favorite thing :)

Err, I don’t know about that raw breakfast cake. It doesn’t look very appetizing (sorry)! I’ve never had any nut butter apart from peanut. I know! How pathetic :(

Have you tried no-nuts pea butter? It’s made with chickpeas, I think, but tastes just like peanut butter! There are subtle differences, but you can hardly tell. It’s amazing!

hazelnut butter is my current favorite, it’s like nutella without the cocoa. But sometimes I also mix cocoa and agave with my HB to make nutella, too lazy to grind up the nuts myself.
But once I get bored I go back to the good old natural pb

Almond is my fave for apples :-) and peanut is for everyday (breakfast cookies etc)

I tried BRAZIL nut butter but I was soo disappointed – maybe it was an dodgy batch but it was oddly dry and tastless (my bloke argues that brazil nuts are also dry and tasteless so maybe it wasn’t just that jar…)

Pumpkin and Hazel are next on my list to try.

Seriously nut butters bring all of us crazies out to comment…I LOVE IT! I actually have stopped buying it so I will slow the heck down

i’m allergic to nuts so i eat soy nut butter – its nut free but its the same color as peanut butter and tastes very similar – i love it!

I haven’t tried cashew butter, but have wanted to. LOVE Barney Butter–need more! Soy butter is okay, sunflower seed butter is really good! But you’re right, Barney Butter just might be the best. Oh and I’ve recently heard about coconut butter and want to try that, too!

Favorite = pecan (homemade); Least favorite = Sunflower.

I love a lot of nutbutters and there are SO many out there to try!

My favorite right now are from this place OMG divine! http://www.spreadtherestaurant.com/catalog/

Maranathas has the best macadamia nutbutter

Futtersnutbutters- the hazelnut roasted is #1 and until I found out I was allergic this was my favorite of them all and I have 20+ types of nutbutters.

I love good old almond butter, but im dying to try cashew butter :) Your raw breakfast cake looks soooo tasty!

Great website here, enjoyed reading alot of coments about nut butters, I produce two nut butters here in canada, Nut ‘N Budder and Almond Budder Extreme…all natural check them out and look for more flavors hitting the store shelves soon. Avail in all Loblaws chain stores across canada

Oh. My. Goodness. After reading this blog I HAD to send away for a free sample of Barney Butter. It came yesterday and I was ecstatic. I’m enjoying it right now with some homemade jam on Ezekiel toast. I’m in love. IN LOVE. I can’t take big enough bites. Why is it so darn expensive though? Now I have an addiction that I cannot support. HUMPH!