Homemade Almond Butter

I saw Justin's Nut Butter (Classic Almond) was on sale at Moscow Food Co-op.  I'd been always wanting to try almond butter, yet I was a bit hesitant to spend 80 cents for a small packet for a taste test!

My research began.  I learned that I can make almond butter at home.  Yay!  Some people add oil and others used almonds only.  Many recipes used roasted almonds, but I decided to use raw almonds for my first experiement. 

I used 1 cup (about 4 oz) raw almonds.







About 30 seconds later...  Almonds were coarsely chopped.

After five minutes. 

It felt like rough clay.  Kept scraping every two minutes or so...

 It started to look like paste!






Scrape.  Turn on the food processer.  Stop and scrape.  I must have repeated process at least 10 times.






Oil started showing up.

 My first almond butter!  It took about 18 minutes. 

Costco sells this 3-lb bag for US$13.20.
3 lbs. = 48 oz

4 oz of homemade almond butter = US$1.10  Not bad at all!  The little packet of almond butter contains 1.15 oz.  I believe regular price is 99 cents at co-op.  I could be wrong...   










I thought that almond butter was slightly sweeter than peanut butter.  I can not wait for almond butter and honey sandwich on homemade bread.  Mmm.....