Cocoa-Nut Almond Butter Recipe
This chocolate almond butter is a healthy way to satisfy a chocolate craving. Try spreading this homemade delight on graham crackers, dipping apple slices or pretzels in it, stirring it into your morning oatmeal, or rolling bananas in it to make frozen banana pops.
Overview
Total time: 40 S
Servings: 7
Calories: 180
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp. cocoa or cocoa powder
- 3 tbsp. granulated sugar
- 1/8 tsp. kosher salt
- 1 1/4 cups roasted and unsalted almonds
- 2 tbsp. unsweetened coconut flakes
Nutritional Information
- Serving Size: 2 tbsp.
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated Fat: 2g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Sodium: 20mg
- Carbohydrates: 11g
- Fiber: 4g
- Sugar: 7g
- Protein: 6g
Instructions
- Add ingredients to Twister jar in order listed, and place Twister lid on jar.
- Hold Twister lid with one hand, and with other hand set on a Medium to Medium-High speed. Run for 40 seconds, turning Twister lid counterclockwise during blending.
Notes
For a raw version of the recipe, use raw almonds instead of roasted almonds and use coconut oil instead of shredded coconut. Follow recipe directions above, but blend for a total of 50–60 seconds.
This seems delicious. Can not be sure though b/c have not tried it. But I was browsing the net and was awed to read all the benefits of coconut: http://x.co/8nIns
Made this spread to dip apples in… Doubled the recipe and Used the wild side blender and it worked just fine! I would just slowly increase the speed and stop every few seconds to scrape down. Maybe because all my smoothies are super thick I’m used to this but I had no problem with this recipe… Okay maybe just stopping eating it. Addicting!
I know I’m a little late to the game, but I just tried this recipe and it is fabulous! I toasted my almonds in a dry skillet and let them cool, then put everything in the blendtec twister jar (using stevia as sweetener). I let it go on the lowest speed until it was all ground and starting to stick together, then gradually increased the speed. I find I have the most success making nut butter on low speed until it looks like nut butter but not quite smooth, then increase the speed. So delicious.
I made some this morning except using pure coco paste, 230gr almonds
med blitz then add 230gr coco paste, I started to pulse as it got thick
as the coco melted , machine over heated and saw some light smoke rise
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I just made this in my 725 using the Twister jar – it turned out just fine although I had to put it back through the blender on high-speed for 30 more seconds to get it more smooth. I read that many people had a hard time getting this recipe to work in there four-sided jars, so I am certain that you should only use the twister or the wild side jar. The other thing is that you cannot use raw almonds; roasting the almonds brings out the oils that are essential to make this recipe. Otherwise you will need to add some coconut oil. I’m not sure I will make this recipe again as it did seem to tax my machine more than I would like it to, and because of the oils in the almond butter the contents innthe jar heated up as I made it, even producing a little smoke from the butter itself. I did end up stirring in some extra teaspoons of sugar.
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