Chocolate Peanut Butter Recipe – Easy, delicious and vegan 5 Ingredient Homemade Chocolate Peanut Spread Recipe with step by step photos.
This homemade peanut butter is so much better and cheaper than the store-bought nut butter and can be made in bulk and store for a few months.
What is chocolate peanut butter?
Peanut Butter is a spread made with roasted peanuts. It can be made with different flavors and ingredients and Chocolate Peanut Butter is one of them. Chocolate Peanut Butter is super easy to make at home and can be used in many ways.
How to use chocolate peanut spread?
You can serve it in many ways. Here are some ideas:
- Spread it on a toast
- Serve with crackers
- Serve as a fruit dip and perfect for apples
- Use as a spread to make tea sandwiches
- Goes well with yogurt or muesli
How long does homemade chocolate peanut butter last?
It stays fresh at room temperature for at least a month. You can store it in the refrigerator for a few months. When refrigerated, it becomes solid so bring you will need to bring it back to room temperature before using.
Is it vegan?
Yes, this homemade spread is vegan-friendly and can be served with vegan yogurt, vegan bread or fruits.
Few More Chocolate Recipes:
- Chikoo Chocolate Smoothie
- Chocolate Strawberry Banana Smoothie
- Eggless Wheat Chocolate Blueberry Muffins
- Chocolate Fruit Custard
- Chocolate Greek Yogurt Dip
- Vegan Avocado Brownies
- Quinoa Chocolate Pudding
Step by step instructions:
- Start the process with grinding the measured sugar to a fine powder. Keep it aside.
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan or skillet on a medium flame and roast the peanuts to brown color.
- Let them cool and rub the skins off.
- If you are using pre-roasted nuts, skip the roasting step.
- Transfer the roasted nuts to a mixie jar or food processor and pulse them a few times.
- Then grind it to a fine powder.
- Don’t forget to mix and scrape down the sides as needed.
- Continue grinding until you get a smooth and shiny peanut butter. (refer to the above image).
- ANow add the measured cocoa powder, powdered sugar, salt and oil to the ground peanuts and grind.
- Scrape the sides of the jar and continue grinding
- Grind until the mixture is creamy and silky (refer to the above image).
- If you feel the consistency of the spread is too thick, add a little more oil and blend again to adjust the consistency.
- Transfer it to an airtight container and store it.
Few more peanut recipes on the blog:
- Peanut Butter Banana Yogurt Popsicles
- Peanut Sesame Laddu
- Peanut Poha Laddu
- Cinnamon Peanut Butter
- Peanut Chaat
- Dates Peanut Chocolate Truffles
Homemade chocolate peanut butter recipe below:
Chocolate Peanut Butter Recipe with Cocoa Powder
Ingredients
- 1 cup Peanuts
- ½ cup Sugar
- 4 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
- 1.5 tbsp Oil
- ⅛ tsp Salt
Instructions
- Grind the sugar into a fine powder and set aside.
- Heat a heavy bottomed pan on a medium flame and roast the peanuts to brown color.
- Let them cool and rub the skins off.
- Put the roasted peanuts into the mixie jar and pulse them a few times.
- Then grind it to a fine powder.
- Mix and scrape down the sides as needed.
- Continue grinding until the peanut butter is smooth and shiny.
- Add the cocoa powder, powdered sugar and oil to the peanut mixture and continue to grind until blended.
- Scrape the sides of the jar and continue grinding.
- Grind until the mixture is creamy and shiny.
- Adjust the consistency by adding a little more oil if you find it too thick.
- Transfer the peanut butter to a container and close the lid. Store in the refrigerate for a couple of weeks.
- When refrigerated, the peanut butter becomes solid so bring it back to room temperature before using.
- Spread the chocolate peanut butter over the bread slices and make sandwiches. Serve and enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition values are estimates only.
Kiran @ KiranTarun.com says
Divine! I love homemade nut butters!
Nassali mastulah says
Thnx for educative ideas