Vanilla/White Chocolate Almond Butter

I truly do think that nut butter is the meaning of life. Not very nice from God tho to make it that high in calories.. 

Today I did my second nut butter, last time I did nutella (a lighter version ofc, with hazelnuts and cacao and so on), 

it was tasty, but the recipe needed som smoothyness (actually not a real word) so I will work a little bit on that recipe!

ANYWAY, today I did this instead, a vanilla/white chocolate almond butter. 

It's filled with protein both from nuts and from the protein powder, has the same calories as peanut butter or any other nut butter (around 100 calories each tbsp, 16g). And. It's freaking delicious. 

If you're a fan of almond butter you need to try this, ok, no doubt. 

Vanilla/White Chocolate Almond Butter:

(Makes 415g almond butter, 1 very heaped jar    |     Sugar free)

Ingredients: 

400g almonds 

4 tbsp (20g) vanilla white chocolate protein powder (I used fitnessguru's) 

2 tsp vanilla extract

1-2 pinch sea salt

1 tbsp (5g) shredded cocoa butter 

2 tsp coconut sugar 

Method: Please read notes before you begin. 

Put your almonds in a food processor (or in a mixer) and start to mix.

First it will look like a flour but just keep mixing until it becomes smoother and smoother (Look att how-to-pictures below). 

Mix, mix and mix and if needed scrape down the edges with a spoon so all of the nuts touch the blades. It can take around 15 minutes until it becomes smooth. 

When your butter has become smooth pour in vanilla extract, the protein powder and sea salt and mix until smooth and until all is blended. 

Grate your cocoa butter on a grater and measure it. 

Melt your cocoa butter on very low heat using the double boiler method (swedish: vattenbad). When melted pour into the mixer with the almond butter and start to mix again. 

When the cacao butter is mixed in pour in the coconut sugar, and well, mix again until smooth. 

Transfer your butter into a jar and store closed in the fridge. 

Note: 

• You will need a good patience. When you start to mix it will just look lika a flour and you first thought will be ''this will never work'' but I promise, with a little patience!
• You should use a food processor BUT it do works with a powerful mixer, I used a mixer but it takes longer time and you need to have one of the more expensive mixers or it can get overheated and broken. 
• You can sub coconut sugar with example brown sugar but I wouldn't go for stevia. 
• If you don't have white chocolate protein powder you can use regular vanilla protein powder but then you should call it just vanilla almond butter. 
• 1 tbsp (16g) is 99 calories ish.