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Sweet, nutty, creamy, and crunchy, my honey peanut butter recipe is sure to become your new favorite spread! All you need is a food processor and three simple ingredients!
Love homemade spreads? Try my almond butter, granola butter, healthy Nutella, and protein cookie butter next.
I am a peanut butter fiend. There, I said it.
But seriously, my family and I love all things peanut butter, especially honey peanut butter sandwiches (ah, my childhood). Since I make my own peanut butter all the time, it was a no-brainer to add some honey to it to create this fabulous spread.
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Why I love this recipe
- Only 3 ingredients. All you need is honey, peanuts, and a dash of oil.
- A few minutes to make. It’s ready to go in under 10 minutes.
- Healthy and delicious. My honey roasted peanut butter recipe is short and sweet, with no hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup, or refined sugar. You can’t say that about most store-bought varieties (looking at you, Peter Pan and Skippy!).
- Cheaper than name brands. Peanuts are cheap, so why am I paying upwards of $8 for a jar of peanut butter? Never again!
Ingredients needed
- Peanuts. Roasted and unsalted.
- Honey. For the best recipe, use good quality honey like Manuka. Alternatively, you can use maple syrup or agave. Just know the flavor will be slightly different.
- Coconut oil. Measured in its liquid state. Unless you like the overpowering flavor of coconut, opt for refined coconut oil. You can also use any neutral-flavored oil, like rapeseed or safflower.
How to make honey peanut butter
I’ve included step-by-step photos below to make this recipe easy to follow at home. For the full printable recipe instructions and ingredient quantities, scroll to the recipe card at the bottom of this post.
Step 1- Blend the peanuts. In a blender, add the peanuts and blend until crumbly, stopping regularly to scrape down the sides with a spatula.
Step 2- Add the remaining ingredients. Add the honey and blend until thick and combined. Slowly add the oil while still blending. If the mixture is too thick, add more oil.
Arman’s recipe tips
- Roast your own peanuts. If you can’t find roasted, unsalted peanuts, get raw peanuts and bake them on a baking sheet in the oven at 175C/350F for 15-20 minutes (see my recipe video in the recipe card where I demonstrate this method!).
- Adjust the consistency. Prefer chunky peanut butter? Add chopped peanuts at the end. Like creamy peanut butter? Add more oil.
- Be patient. It may take a while before you start seeing that peanut butter-like consistency, but keep at it!
- Blend on low speed. So you don’t burn out your blender. If the blender feels warm to the touch, turn it off and let it cool down for a few minutes.
- Add a pinch of salt to bring out the natural sweet flavor.
Storage instructions
To store: Transfer the spread into an airtight container or jar and store it at room temperature for up to 4 weeks. Keep it somewhere cool and out of direct sunlight and heat sources.
To freeze: Place the spread in a glass jar and store it in the freezer for up to 6 months.
Frequently asked questions
If you are allergic to honey, don’t like its flavor, or don’t use it due to your diet restrictions, use agave syrup instead. Agave syrup is a 1:1 substitute for honey and provides very similar results.
Both honey and peanut butter harden at cold temperatures. So, if you are storing your honey roasted peanut butter in the fridge, allow it to sit at room temperature for up to an hour before you use it.
Recipes to use this spread with
- Peanut butter cheesecake
- Peanut butter crackers
- Peanut butter brownies
- Healthy peanut butter bars
- Peanut butter cornflake bars
Honey Peanut Butter
Video
Ingredients
- 6 cups roasted peanuts
- 1/4 cup honey
- 1/4 cup coconut oil or any neutral oil
Instructions
- In a high speed blender, add the roasted and unsalted nuts and blend until crumbly, regularly scraping down the sides.
- Add the honey and blend until thick and combined. Slowly add the oil while still blending. If the mixture is too thick, add more.
- Transfer to a jar or container.
Notes
Nutrition
Originally updated December 2022, updated and republished July 2024
I love the kick in your peanut butter!
Seriously, I’ve become obsessed with adding cayenne to everything!
That’s why it is so hard to give food as gifts… it’s far too edible! This sounds like an amazing combination though and for fear of losing my food blogger card (I only have a jar of PB and its almost gone) I may have to make myself a batch ASAP.
Hope you can make it asap!
How selfish 😉 ! I hope Charlotte will chase you with a wooden spoon, broomstick or whichever similar tool she has lying around when she meets you and finds you sacrificed your gift to her to satisfy your nut butter cravings. That would be unheard of for me. Or at least I’d like to think so though lack of nut butter is a serious emergency so who knows which lengths I’d go???
never a good idea to be running low!
Cayenne Pepper in Nutbutter?! That is genius Arman!
I brought a jar of Nuts’n More Almond Butter to Tim in Berlin in September. Next day when he went off to work, I cracked open the jar and had a third of it. I bought him a beer later on.
That sounds like a very diplomatic exchange- beer for nut butter.
I VOLUNTEER!
I currently have about 2T of peanut butter left in my house. Don’t fret though, I’m swinging by the store tonight JUST for nut butters. Although I don’t think I’ll buy 3 jars. Then again…anythings possible….
I hope the new stash is doing well 😉
I’m straight addicted to nut butters and actually TRY to NOT have them around at times, but that lasts all of 13 hours and I go buy more. I have two on deck right now…this is good. I have been wanting to make my own with cayenne for a while now. I put that shit on ERRYTHANG (the cayenne, and I guess nut butter too) so I must try it with nut butter.
Omg cayenne is the best on everything, except on eyes.
OH YUM!!! love how this has a little kick to it! 🙂
So good!
Poor Charlotte! But genius idea! I am also working on a spicy/ salty nut butter recipe right now.
I guess I have around 7 open jars of nut butter right now. So cliché!
And I one bought about 8 packs of Fonzies (best cheese snack ever) for my family and ended up eating 5 myself. Oh yes and then there was the granola incident on Sunday….
YES! I love experimenting with them both and can’t wait to try some new ideas! 7? Geeze….
FONZIES? What is this goodness?!
Oh you would love them! It’s an Italian corn snack with cheese. Very salty and chrunchy. One of my absolute favorites from my childhood.
Um.. that sounds ridiculous.
I made almond butter using my blender once and ended up burning some of the mixture! Oops! Definitely need to invest in a food processor as I’ve now learned that blenders do not equal food processors.
LOL. I burnt the damn blade the first time!
I have 5 jars on the go at the moment – HLB status assured! 😉
I remember when I had a massive craving for tinned mackerel – I went to 5 different supermarkets in the rain to find it…. So worth it!
Wow, that is commitment- then again- it is tinned mackerel 😉
I have two jars of nut butter (almond and peanut, both crunchy obviously) and just finished my chocolate soy butter. I also have a bunch of bags of nuts because I want to be creative and make my own. I think I might actually take this recipe but use almonds instead of peanuts. Sound like a good plan?
YES. Crunchy > Smooth. ALways! Go for it- I think that sounds delicious!
My dorm room has three jars right now, not counting the ones I have at home, the vats of peanut butter available in the dining hall, and the Wild Friends peanut butter that I plan on ninja-ing from my floor mate. Nut butter is ALWAYS a craving.
Spicy honey roasted peanut butter sounds so awesome. I’m all for adding spice to life. I even had sriracha with my eggs at breakfast this morning! I’m a changing person!!!
OMG. You are awesome. Add sriracha to EVERYTHING.
oh yum!!! does this ship??? 😉
Of course! 😉
This looks delicious – can I sub bacon for the peanuts?
BAHAHA.
No. You may not. However, you can sub nutritional yeast for it. It’s JUST like pizza except better.
Welp lock me up and throw away the key because I currently only have one giant jar of pb 🙂 I’ve been really wanting to try sunflower butter though so I guess that can be what I add to my collection next. I love the idea of spicy pb – sounds like it’d make an amazing sandwich!
You’re one better than me- well, not anymore (just went to town at Wholefoods!)