Gluten-Free Vegan Vanilla Maple Cashew Butter (2024)

This Gluten-Free Vegan Vanilla Maple Cashew Butter is an easy and healthy recipe made with just 4 clean, real food ingredients. It's a perfect plant-based staple recipe to have on hand and better than plain cashew butter!

Gluten-Free Vegan Vanilla Maple Cashew Butter

I'm a big fan of making homemade nut butter like homemade peanut butter, homemade almond butter and a really unique one I created,Superfood Cashew Butter with Spirulina Crunchies, which is one of my favorites.

But for this one, I started with a homemade cashew butter base (made with organic cashews) and added some vanilla extract and a little maple syrup for the sweetness.

It was super easy to make with just a food processor and took less than 10 minutes.

My boys really enjoyed it as a dip with apples instead of their usual plain peanut butter but it would also be good to spread over warm toast.

It's a flexible recipe too because you could substitute the homemade cashew butter with organic store-bought cashew butter, or even another type of nut butter.

And, you can substitute the maple syrup for your favorite sweetener.

This is a healthy option to plain cashew butter or even peanut butter and it's vegan, gluten-free, paleo-friendly and has no refined sugar.

Expert Tips + Ingredient Substitutions for Maple Vanilla Cashew Butter

Here are some expert tips to make this recipe perfectly:

Cashews. I used homemade cashew butter as the base, but you could also use an organic store-bought cashew butter (or even substitute with your favorite nut butter, ex. almond butter, etc). If you do use store-bought nut butter, you would only need (1) cup to replace the (3) cups of cashews.

Vanilla Extract. I used (2) teaspoons organic pure vanilla extract but feel free to add more if you want more vanilla flavor. In addition, you can also use organic vanilla bean powder in the same amount. Keep in mind it may make the nut butter a darker color.

Maple Syrup: I used maple syrup as the sweetener, but feel free to use your favorite liquid sweetener as a substitution.

Coconut Oil. If you don't like the taste or smell of coconut oil, you can use organic refined coconut oil which has zero coconut taste or smell.

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