A unique Vitamix nut butter (that tastes like banana bread)

Last Updated January 30, 2018

Homemade nut butter is the reason a lot of people buy their first Vitamix.

It’s certainly a favorite thing to make in ours.

Why? Because it’s:

Easy.

Healthy.

Delicious.

This particular nut butter is all those things, but it’s also a little outside the box on flavor.

Whip up some of this fabulous Monkey Butter today. And add it to your family’s go-to Vitamix recipes tomorrow!

Ice cream inspiration

I really wanted to come up with a unique nut butter flavor.

I’ve seen tons of chocolate almond (we have one), sweetened peanut (yup, us too), and even some espresso/nut combinations.

But I wanted to think outside of the box. So I looked up what my local ice cream shop was serving up. They had tons of creative flavors!

One of those flavors was banana bread. We have an extremely popular recipe for vegan banana bread on our site and I know the ingredients by heart.

I just needed to get the flavor of cinnamon, vanilla, and banana into a nut butter and I’d have a winner.

But blended banana sounded too much like a smoothie to me.

So I thought back to our apple cinnamon walnut butter (one of my absolute favorites) where we used dried apples to achieve that appley taste.

I used the same concept and used dried bananas to get that concentrated banana flavor.

And I gotta say, this stuff is mouth-wateringly good! Feed it to all of your monkeys… best served after jumping on the bed 🙂

Recipe