The Best Easy Homemade Peanut Butter Recipe

And in five minutes and I’m NOT EVEN JOKING. comment icon 398 more comments This is The Peanut Butter of peanut butters. It’s peanut butter like you’ve never seen before. Or have you? If you’ve made your own peanut butter, you’re already five hundred light years ahead of me in coolness. But if you haven’t made homemade peanut butter yet, we need to talk.

How To Make Homemade Peanut Butter

In this little jar of liquid gold, we have peanut butter with the most perfectly melty, creamy texture, and with a barely sweet, peanutty-intense flavor. Add a little honey, add a little sea salt, or more or less or nothing at all. It doesn’t even matter. Something magical happens when you whip all those peanuts around in the food processor for a few minutes, and that something is creamy, drippy peanut butter that is the definition of perfect simplicity.

Sweetener

You can use a liquid sweetener like honey or agave, or just regular sugar.

Salt

This one is totally up to you! If you like a saltier peanut butter (me), add some extra salt to the mix. Now if you’ll excuse me while I go back for my 800th spoon-dip this morning. This homemade peanut butter thing is massively better than anything I could have expected. I’ve heard of it for years and always thought it was secretly hard or something. And/or I’m just lazy. But oh my gosh, IT’S SO EASY, you guys. It’s probably the easiest, fastest thing you could ever make. One ingredient, one machine, five minutes.

How To Use Homemade Peanut Butter

You mean, if not by the spoonful? Okay, okay, okay. There are lots of options right here on Pinch of Yum, but let’s get back to basics. Shall we?

Spread it on toast for breakfast or a snack. Drizzle it on your favorite fruit (like bananas). Stir it into your morning oatmeal for a protein boost. Add a dollop to your smoothies.

I love love love the texture because it can be thick (just pop that bad boy in the fridge for a while) or it can be drizzle-able and soft and runny, which is how I like it. There is just nothing better than a melty spoonful of peanut butter to bring in the morning // to satisfy my pre-lunch hungers // to treat myself to before bed. Soooo maybe it’s habit forming? I mean, like, hard to say.

Peanut Butter Recipes To Fall In Love With

Peanut butter isn’t just for dessert! Here are some of our favorite recipes that use peanut butter.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cheesecake Bars (the actual dreamiest dessert) The Very Best Peanut Sauce (truly, the best) Spicy Peanut Soba Noodle Salad (noodle twirls forever) Quinoa Crunch Salad with Peanut Dressing (a lunch powerhouse)