Peanut Butter

Here goes another easy peasy recipe. Seriously, did you know that in order to make peanut butter, the only ingredient you need is PEANUTS!!?? No chemicals, just peanuts. Yes!

The best thing about this recipe is there isn't a wrong way to make. So, get out your food processor and let's make some peanut butter.

Add shelled, unsalted peanuts to your food processor. You can use as many as you want. I used 4 cups of peanuts and ended up with over 3 cups of peanut butter. Sometimes I will shell my own peanuts, however, this time I used pre-shelled nuts.

Start up the processor. After a few minutes, your nuts will look something like the above picture. You may need to scrape down the side of the food processor a few times during this stage. Keep processing.

After about 5 minutes, your nuts will start to look like peanut butter. If you like it chunky, you can always stop at this stage. I like it creamy, so I'm going to keep going.

At around the 8 minute mark, your peanut butter will look like the above picture. Although it looks quite smooth, when I stop the food processor, the peanut butter holds it's shape. On the spoon (below) it stays quite firm as well.

I'm going to keep going. The more you process the peanuts, the more oils are released. It's really up to your personal preference regarding how long you process.

After 10 minutes of processing, my peanut butter is quite smooth and no longer holds it's shape.

On a spoon, it drips off quite freely. *Keep in mind, the peanut butter is loose right now because it is warm from the processing. When it cools down, it will harden a little bit.*

Now is the time you can get fancy with your peanut butter. You have many options. You can leave it the way it is or you can add some extra flavour to your butter depending on your preferences.

Here's a few ingredients I have successfully added to my peanut butter.

        - Salt

        - Cinnamon and honey

        - Maple syrup

        - Coconut oil and coconut flakes

        - Brown sugar

Get creative and make your own peanut butter concoction.

Above are 3 different types of peanut butter. On the left, I added cinnamon and honey in the middle, maple syrup and on the right, coconut oil and coconut flakes. All three mixtures are fantastic!

Place your peanut butter in jars and keep them in the fridge.