Macadamia Cashew Butter

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Macadamia Cashew Butter is a blend of cashew butter and macadamia nut butter. It’s one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It’s delicious, super creamy and a nice change from almond butter or peanut butter.

This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.

After making my homemade almond butter I received a few emails from readers asking about other nut butters. What else could you make at home that wasn’t either peanut or almond butter? Because it seems a few of you have sensitivities to both of those nuts.

If you’ve been reading this blog for any length of time, you know my love for cashew-anything (homemade cashew milk, vegan cashew ricotta, cashew cream, cashew date shakes…you get the idea). I also swoon over creamy macadamia nuts (especially when covered in chocolate).

The Best Nut Butter Blend

So one of my favorite homemade nutter butter blends is this one – macadamia cashew butter. Trust me, you’re gonna want to slather it on everything (though I’m partial to bananas).

It’s unbelievably creamy and making it at home is far more economical than buying cashew butter in the store – and I don’t think you can even buy macadamia butter in the store, can you?

This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.
This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.
This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.

How to Make Macadamia Cashew Butter

If you haven’t yet watched my video for making homemade almond butter, make sure to watch that first. Because the process for making this macadamia cashew butter is virtually identical.

Start by roasting 2 cups of raw cashews and 2 cups of raw macadamia nuts, then cool to room temperature. This helps to release their natural oils. Then, toss the nuts into your Vitamix and blend for a few minutes, using your tamper constantly push the nut butter into the blades. A few minutes later, homemade macadamia cashew butter.

This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.
This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.
This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.

Tips for this Nut Butter Recipe

Cashews and macadamia nuts are super creamy so you might think that they’d blend faster than almonds, but the opposite is true. They actually take a couple of minutes longer. My almond butter takes one minute in my Vitamix, whereas this macadamia cashew butter took three minutes, to get to the same level of creaminess.

This is due to the fact that the nut oils don’t separate as much with either cashews or macadamia nuts. You know how it is when you’re buying a jar of peanut butter or almond butter from the store and the oil separates to the top? Well there’s really is no oil separation with cashews and macadamia nuts.

This means your macadamia cashew butter will stay super creamy in your storage container and you won’t have to vigorously stir it before using. But, it does take a couple minutes longer to blend. Not a biggie though. When you taste this delicious, creamy, almost indulgent macadamia cashew butter, I think you’ll be one happy camper. Enjoy!

This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.
This macadamia cashew butter blend is one of my favorite homemade nut butters. It's delicious, super creamy and only take a few minutes to make.

Macadamia Cashew Butter

5 from 12 votes
Prep: 25 minutes
Total: 25 minutes
Servings: 16 servings
Author: Lisa Bryan

Description

This homemade cashew butter and macadamia nut butter blend is delicious, super creamy and only takes a few minutes to make.

Ingredients 
 

Instructions 

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
  • Place the nuts on a large, parchment-lined baking sheet and cook for 10 minutes. Then, let cool to room temperature.
  • Transfer the nuts to your Vitamix and blend on high for 3-minutes, using the tamper to constantly push the nut butter into the blades.
  • Pour the macadamia cashew butter into a storage container and keep in the refrigerator.

Lisa’s Tips

  • The macadamia cashew butter will stay good for 2-3 months in the fridge.
  • My favorite air-tight storage containers for all of my butters, sauces and spreads are these Weck Jars

Nutrition

Serving: 2tbsp | Calories: 209kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Sodium: 3mg | Potassium: 168mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 20mg | Iron: 2mg
Course: Appetizer, sauce
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cashew Butter, Macadamia Cashew Butter, Macadamia Nut Butter, Nut Butter
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Lisa Bryan

Lisa is a bestselling cookbook author, recipe developer, and YouTuber (with over 2.5 million subscribers) living in sunny Southern California. She started Downshiftology in 2014, and is passionate about making healthy food with fresh, simple and seasonal ingredients.

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49 Comments

  1. Made this to use in a nyt recipe for vegan cacio e pepe, which was delicious (though that called for just cashew butter and it was a tad sweet but still good). Just ate the butter with an apple. So much creamier and smoother than almond butter. Also I used Trader Joe’s roasted macadamia nuts and then roasted the cashews but they still mixed well. Thanks for recipe!!5 stars

  2. I’m going to try this, but just put the ingredients into My Fitness Pass and the calorie count was double 210 calories per 2 tbs (16 servings in the recipe) vs. the 105 you have listed under nutrition information? Do I have that right?

    1. Hi Beth – Thanks for pointing that out! Looks like there was a mistake and you’re right. Just changed on the recipe card.

  3. Hi there,

    I made this recipe this weekend and I have to say it is delicious. I plan to eat it with many things. Today I used some in my morning smoothie and it gave it a nice taste. I thought I would need to add a little sweetener but found it is not needed. Thank you.5 stars

  4. Doing an elimination diet with my food sensitivities, and peanuts, almonds and cashews were all listed :( is there a way to make this without cashews?

    1. Hi Tina – Yes! You can add in chia seeds, it just may make it a little bit thicker since chia seeds expand.

  5. So excited to have made this recipe I added in freeze dried strawberries ? so excited to try this!!! Thank you for the recipe!!!!

  6. This is delicious! I added a little bit of vanilla bean paste and it tastes almost like shortbread biscuits. A new staple for sure, thank you for the wonderful recipe and convincing me to buy a Vitamix. Much love from NZ5 stars

    1. Oh wonderful! Vanilla bean paste is a great addition. So happy you loved the recipe Ashley! Hugs to you in NZ. :)

  7. Where do you buy your macadamia nuts from? I found some at costco but they were already roasted and had sea salt on them. Can’t wait to try this nut butter!5 stars

  8. Looks great but I don’t have and can’t afford a Vitamixer. Will I be able to use my regular blender for this?
    Thanks.5 stars

    1. Nut butters are really thick and require a high-powered motor and the tamper to push the nuts into the blades. So it really depends on what type of blender you have.

  9. Thanks for the recipe. Do you think I could buy already roasted cashews and macadamia instead of buying raw and roasting them at home? 

    1. You can, but you may have to add additional oil as commercially roasted nuts can sometimes not have the same level of natural oils as freshly roasted.

      1. It’s just amazing! Divine!!! I just had the last of it with some greek yoghurt, some sliced almonds and a few slices of barely ripe banana (have to be careful with banana due to that darn HIT) It was sooooooo good! *hallucinating about more macadamia cashew butter”

      2. Ooh, fab breakfast. Much better than what I did which was just slather it on a banana. And those sound like pretty delicious hallucinations to me! Lol. ;)

      3. Hahah but that sounds like a fab snack or dessert… I’d love it! Yum

  10. Cashew butter is so packed full of protein, perfect to add extra nutrients in your diet

  11. Yummm this looks so delicious! I have had a vitamix for years but I still haven’t gotten around to making nut butter – I feel like i’ve committed some sort of vitamix sin. I have macs and cashews in the cupboards so will have to try this very soon!

    x

    1. You’ll love the Vitamix for making nut butters! It’s so much faster than using a food processor. Make sure to watch my almond butter video (linked above) as it shows you in real time just how easy it is. :) x

  12. My son has a peanut allergy so we love experimenting with other nut butters! This looks so smooth and yummy!

    1. My nephew has a peanut allergy as well, so I never keep peanut butter in my home. Almond butter is a pantry staple, but this macadamia cashew butter is so creamy and delicious it’s a nice alternative. :) x

  13. This looks so good and such a great substitution for peanut butter (and likely healthier!). Thank you for sharing! I cannot wait to try this.

    1. Thanks Luci! It’s always nice to switch up nut butter for variety as well. Enjoy!

      1. Putting in a request for a healthy balanced indulgence recipe involving macadamia nuts and white chocolate – my FAVORITE flavor pairing :)