I made and wrote about the Maple -
Roasted Almond butter from this book — but maybe that is only my favorite because I haven't tried this one yet!
In our modern marketplace, it is most common to
find roasted almond butters, which typically have almonds that have undergone the dry - roasting process.
Browsing through Pinterest recently, I came across a number of recipes
for Roasted Almond Butter and seeing how easy it was to make I decided to make it myself.
i've still got a batch of
roasted almond butter in my fridge, and i can see why you wouldn't want to use that as a base!
Ingredients: Pumpkin Caramel Almond Butter Filling 1/2 cup roasted, mashed pumpkin (see Notes) or canned pumpkin puree (not pie filling) 1/2 cup
natural roasted almond butter or natural peanut butter 1/3 cup agave nectar or maple syrup 1 tsp pumpkin spice or 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon + 1/4 tsp ground nutmeg + 1/4 tsp ground dried ginger 1/4 tsp sea salt
and they did not have the
creamy roasted almond butter used in this Paleo recipe, so this can not be a true Paleo recipe, if I am understanding it right.
For anyone else allergic to cane sugar I melt 3 TBL coconut oil, 3
TBL roasted almond butter, ~ 2 TBL raw cacao, 1 - 2 TBL agave over low heat on the stove top and use that as my chocolate topping.
Combine roasted almond butter, cocoa powder, coconut shreds, dates, figs, vanilla, cinnamon, sea salt and water in food processor and blend until chunky paste forms (no need to run processor until all the lumps are out).
We fill these handmade chocolates with our freshly
ground roasted almond butter blended with Brins Jam's sour cherry - chai jam, which itself features beautifully spiced chai tea by Dona Chai.
If incredible concoctions made from dreamy foods
like roasted almond butter, cacao, vanilla, espresso beans, and coconut oil sound like your thing, then it's time to check out Paleo Treats!
One question as I have had varying results in baking with almond butter... do you use RAW or
ROASTED almond butter in your recipes?
This time I
used roasted almond butter that is a little bit chunky but I sometimes make my own almond butter from blanched almonds and it's very smooth (using a food processor).
In addition, MaraNatha brand proudly introduces two new products — Dark
Roast Almond Butter and Light Roast Almond Butter.
xo Dawn — Girl Heart Food recently posted... Easy Homemade Roasted Almond Butter
Do you have a favorite brand of
roasted almond butter?
To make that recipe simply substitute raw macadamia nuts for the almonds and raw macadamia nut butter for
the roasted almond butter.
This dressing contains both fat, from
roasted almond butter and coconut milk, and a pinch of black pepper which is more than enough to provide the needed boost.
I have used both raw and
roasted almond butter and each one had a slightly different texture and I prefer roasted.
The roasted almond butter lends a crispier outside than the raw almond butter.