Spreads - Part 2: Peanut Butter
BC Living - “From Scratch”
May 2024

If you love making homemade jam after a bountiful summer of berries and other fruits, but have never tried to make other spreads at home, this is your sign. Making peanut butter (or any kind of nut-butter) is very simple, and even if they seem daunting, cream cheese and butter from scratch are well worth it. Not only because you can use fresh, organic ingredients, but you can customize them on the spot!

Peanut Butter

INGREDIENTS:

3 cups of dry roasted peanuts
salt – optional and to taste

INSTRUCTIONS:

Three cups of peanuts will amount to about one cup of peanut butter, so adjust this as you see fit for how much you’d like to consume. It will last about one month.

Place the peanuts in a stand mixer or high-powered blender and blend at high speed. Scrape down the sides with a spatula every time the pb starts to build up.

A rough dough-like ball will start to form, keep going and it will smooth and blend itself out.

You can blend until you reach the desired consistency, but a creamy and smooth peanut butter will take approximately 10 minutes to come together