This is a super complicated recipe. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you. If you are slow and don’t know how to turn on a food processor, you are doomed and you disappoint me. Wow, that was mean. Everything I just said was a lie too. This is the least complicated “recipe” that will ever be on my blog. It’s really not even a recipe.
I always wondered how coconut butter was made. I mean, the label on the delicious Artisana Coconut Butter says raw, organic coconut…so HOW DO THEY DO IT? Well, my favorite blogger of all time, Jen from Jen’s Gone Paleo posted on her fbook a few months ago of how she made her own coconut butter. Hold the phone, HOLD THE FREAKING PHONE. I was in coconut heaven as soon as I read her post…and what did I do then and there…I made the most delicious thing to touch these little lips of mine. And I packaged it in a super fancy mason jar with an elaborate label, as you can see. I could sell this shit for millions, MILLIONS I tell you! That is untrue.
But seriously, if you haven’t started looking into coconut and it’s amazing powers, you need to update yourself and start consuming it regularly. Coconut flakes are my new favorite snack, it kind of tastes like nothing but is still somehow extremely delicious. Make sense? Yeah…it doesn’t make sense to me either. Either way, make coconut butter. Be happy. Smile a lot. And then make more of it.
How to Make Your Own Coconut Butter
Instructions
- Open bag–I seem to always need scissors. Guess I need to add in more wods. Damnit.
- Pour coconut flakes into food processor.
- Put the lid on your food processor–very important step!
- Turn food processor on.
- Make some kind of meal while your food processor runs for 8-10 minutes. If it sounds like the blade is just spinning and not mixing anything, open the lid back up and scrape the sides of the coconut. Help your food processor out here, it can’t do ALL the work! Lazy.
Notes
**Ok so I love this brand of coconut flakes (especially when on sale) BUT you can find the flakes for cheaper in most bulk sections at Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage or Sunflower Market. Same deal, smaller price tag. And I highly recommend using flakes, not the finely shredded coconut. For some reason, the flakes give a better consistency like “butter” while the shredded product makes it a bit more gritty and less liquid-y.
More liquid-y = yummy-er coconut butter. And yes, I know those aren’t words, ok?
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So my daughter shared the recipe for your Blueberry Honey Coconut Cups! They look so good!!! She is doing more the modified paleo diet plan and I am doing Trim Healthy Mama’s. She tells me they are very similar.
Anyway, I was stoked when I saw it it. Then i read the bit for coconut cream concentrate… I thought, what the heck is that??, then I saw your recipe for the coconut butter and I was stoked again! However, I was so disappointed and bummed when I went to the grocery store and all there was “sweetened coconut” What the heck right?? Surely there is plain coconut out there that has not been sweetened.
PS… Love your sense of humor. Very dry and a bit sarcastic!
it’s hard to find at some grocery stores. you should ask your grocery store if they have coconut butter or coconut manna there
how do you store it?
In a jar – check out the picture at the top 😉
This is AMAZING. I never bought this stuff because it seemed way overpriced. I bought 3 pounds of coconut flakes, thinking I’d use the leftover coconut for other stuff, but ended up just making a ton of this butter. My kids just cleaned the bathroom and vacuumed so that I’d share it with them. Follows the recipe exactly as written in my KitchenAid Little Classic food processor, fitting as much as possible inside each time. Going to make my husband your baked apples with this now!!
Alright, I’m absofreakinlutely (that’s MY word!!) LOVING this site, and your humor (I think we were separated at birth…sniff, sniff). I’m on a “CooCoo for Coconuts” rampage right now..just slathered coconut oil on my face and décolleté (yep, the girls got it too…I figure they hang there like coconuts, so it’s gotta be good for them too, right?!). Then, I had a few spoonfuls of coconut cream to eat too…now I’m ready for bed 😉
I’ve looked and looked in the comments for this, but do you ever add flavoring a like stevia, cinnamon…anything?
Also, have read in a couple other places that coconut is good for thyroid…
comments?
i haven’t tried but i’m sure that would be great! and i’m not sure about the thyroid thing
I just made this and it turned out beautifully! After two failures with shredded coconut, I was thinking my food processor was to blame, or the coconut I was buying had been too dehydrated, or something. But I read this and bought flakes and tried it again today, and voila! Creamy perfection.
Thanks!
I turned my food processor on, and helped it some. Mine never liquefied. I even added a bit of coconut oil. What the check am I doing wrong, with something so simple?!
Did you use the thicker flakes? The thin shreds don’t work.
Loved this, just tried it!
Hello Jully! We know that coconut butter is used for all different kind of things. I always eat it, when I take the breakfast. It is really good for curry dishes as well. Thank you so much for sharing the great info about coconut butter.
Using a food processor and at this for over a hour ans still no even near a butter texture ???????? I’m using desiccated coconut ? Is this the problem?
oh no, that totally stinks! next time around, definitely follow the recipe exactly (using coconut flakes) because that really does make a difference. with the desiccated coconut, it can’t blend together like the coconut flakes can.
I could only find the sweetened coconut and all I could find was shredded will it still work
no