BAKING, SPREADING AND FRYING
The best-tasting vegan butter! It's plant-based, super buttery, smooth, rich & creamy & can be made in minutes. Use it for all of your spreading, baking and frying needs. This is a real reader favourite with hundreds of five-star reviews. No fancy ingredients are required and it is palm oil-free.
What is vegan butter?
Vegan butter is a dairy-free alternative to regular butter, which is most commonly made from cow's milk, but also sometimes sheep, goat, yak or buffalo milk. Vegan butter is made from plant based milk and it has a very similar texture, mouthfeel and flavour to butter made from animal's milk.
Is it like real butter?
This easy vegan butter is so unbelievably smooth, rich and creamy. It spreads beautifully and melts perfectly.
A slice of no knead sourdough bread, toast or light whole wheat breadjust isn't the same without a thick layer of butter and when you make your own you can avoid the palm oil, emulsifiers etc that are in most store bought vegan butters.
What is vegan butter made of?
Homemade vegan butter is made from just 8 easy to find plant based ingredients. Here is what you will need and why:
almond flour - This is crucial for the best buttery flavour and emulsification. Almond flour is made from blanched skinless almonds and is super fine, powdery, soft and pale creamy yellow in colour. It has a mild, buttery flavour. Almond meal on the other hand is made with raw almonds, often with skins still on. It is coarser and grainier than almond flour, slightly stronger in flavour and darker in colour with small brown flecks throughout if the skins were still intact. For best results you need to use almond flour for this recipe. Almond flour is found in almost all grocery stores and it will be clearly labelled on the bag that it is made from blanched almonds.
non-dairy milk - For creaminess and emulsification.
nutritional yeast - For a buttery depth of flavour
salt - flavour. Salt makes everything better!
apple cider vinegar - It needs some acid to balance the flavours and apple cider vinegar is milder than most other culinary acids.
refined coconut oil - For setting. Note that it must be refined (i.e flavourless and odourless). Without it the butter will stay liquid so it is absolutely essential.
olive oil, avocado oil or canola oil - Essential for texture and spreadability
turmeric - For colour. This is the only ingredient you can safely omit.
How to make plant-based butter
This vegan butter recipe takes literally a couple of minutes to make, plus some time for it to set. Here's how it's done:
Add all of the ingredients except the oils to a blender and blend until smooth.
Add the refined coconut oil and the olive oil and blend again until incorporated and light and airy.
Pour into a lidded container and place in the fridge to set.