Homemade Coconut Butter

Here is an easy simple recipe for coconut butter. Coconut Butter has so many benefits from boosting your immunity to boosting your metabolism and aiding in weight loss and increased energy. It contains lauric acid, calcium, magnesium, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids. This is so good for you and I love to eat it plain when I am craving sugars and I also bake with it as a substitute to butter and oils.

Ingredients

7 cups unsweetened, shredded coconut (approx. 1.25 pounds) That’s it!

(Pretty simple ingredient list, eh :-)?)

Method

1. Measure 7 cups medium shredded unsweetened coconut (about 1.25 pounds). Pour coconut into the Vitamix (or other high-powered blender). Of course, you can try to use less. I just found that this is a great amount to get it blending well in the Vitamix to produce a wonderful consistency quickly.

2. Turn the motor of your Vitamix on and quickly work the speed up. Run the machine on High while using the tamper to keep the coconut moving through the blades (or follow directions for your blender)

3. Run the machine on high for about 1 minute.

4. After a brief rest, process the coconut on High again for up to 1 minute until it is of the desired consistency.

5. Pour into a glass jar for storage.

UPDATE 11/15:

After having trouble with this working sometimes and not working at other times, I have a few tips to help you get PERFECT coconut butter anytime.

1. Start with less coconut. This works more consistently if you start with only about 4 cups of shredded coconut. Make that into a butter and then add 1 cup of additional coconut at a time, blending to a butter with the addition of each cup.

2. Make sure that your blender is COMPLETELY dry. Even a little bit of water makes things problematic.

It’s as simple as that!

And how creamy and sweet tasting! It will come out of your Vitamix quite warm and runny, but it will harden up as you let it sit. If you need to speed up the process, just put it into your fridge or freezer (or outside if it is winter :-).)

Your coconut butter will become spreadable around 76 degrees, but you can usse a knife or apple corer to get it out of the jar if it is colder than that in your home (it sure is in mine in the winter).