How to Make Coconut Butter

OK…followed directions to the T. The unsweetened coconut I had was too dry. Used a Cuisinart. After 8 minutes, added a little bit of unsalted butter and then a tablespoon of cream. Ended up with something workable.
The organic dates were very hard. Even so, it was edible and tasty. Will trade out of other dates.

You have just made my day! Maybe month and year…. My husband LOVES coconut butter and we’ve been buying the very expensive stuff from Artisana. However, we live in the desert southwest which right now is on SUPERINCINERATE so didn’t want to chance ordering it for shipping. Ran across your recipe, drug out my 11 cup Cuisinart, added three slightly heaping cups of some sugarfree/nothing added coconut flakes I’ve had for quite a while, and VI-OLA! In just about 9 minutes I had beautiful COCONUT BUTTER! And it’s delicious. So thank you very much for posting this – we’ll be making our own from now on!

I just made this 2 minutes ago with 3 cups of unsweetened shredded coconut in my ninja blender. It worked out really well, except that it was a bit grainy. Probably because it’s homemade, not sure. But the added salt helped a lot. This could be a replacement of peanut butter according to my daughter (who isn’t a fan of coconut).

I’m very surprised others had issues with this recipe. I did it in my food processor and it worked perfectly. Didn’t even take the full 10 minutes and it was amazing! Thanks so much for the great recipe.

I’ve made it twice and can’t complain.First time I put it in the frig and t hardened. I made it for my oatmeal so when I carved out two tablespoons and added to the oatmeal it melted right in. Thanks for the instruction.

Yes, of course! I’m glad you asked because when I found the manual, it’s actually a Cuisinart Elite Collection 10-12 cup processor! That must be the issue. I did put the whole bag of coconut which was almost 5 cups and didn’t work. I’m gonna get two bags and try again with a lot more coconut! It’s 1,000 watts.

I have a Cuisinart food processor and this didn’t work at all for me. I put 4 cups as mine is an 8-10 cup processor. After 20 minutes I just have a hot processor motor and something like coconut powder. The only difference is that they didn’t have unsweetened coconut at the grocery store. Not sure if that’s the reason it didn’t work?

I made this coconut butter because the day before I made some lime marmalade and I thought something coconutty would go very well with it on my rye crackers. After reading such mixed reviews about results, I wondered, will it or won’t it? I’m glad to say that it worked for me, and found it quite fascinating how such a dry ingredient by itself became so liquidy while processing. I guess it’s because the oils are released as the fibre breaks down. I have a Magimix Compact 3100. As the recipe states, it set quite solid overnight, similar to a block of creamed coconut, so I melted it in the microwave and mixed it into some gloopy natural peanut butter, so now I have coconut peanut butter which should be a more spreadable consistency. This was a very easy recipe and so much cheaper than buying it!

I don’t have a food processor but my Ninja came with a 7 cup dough bowl (maybe a food processor?) and single serving cups. I wanted to make 1/2 the recipe so I started with the single serving cups (2 C coconut). I Didn’t think it was working so I transferred coconut to the dough bowl and added 2 more cups coconut. After 10 minutes, scraping sides a few times the consistency was starting get stickier but not liquidy. I then transferred it back to the single serve cup and within a minute it was liquid! Next time I’ll stick with the single serve but add more coconut to begin with, see what happens ;-)
As stated several times, the equipment used makes or breaks it here.

Super easy. Food processor was on for about 8 minutes. I kinda forgot about it since I have tiny humans. But I just scraped the sides and processed for another 2 min.

I made this with 500g of raw, flaked dried coconut. To my amazement it worked. Slightly grainy, but pourable and set hard in fridge. I have a magimix 5200xl, which bought as sick of motor burning out on previous machines. Previously I’ve tried sesame paste from black seeds, those little buggers were not going to make a paste, even after 30 mins, so pleased with this success, tastes very good.

Ok, so it worked BUT it took me a total of TWO HOURS to get it to liquid consistency. I’d say blending time was about 1 hour but it took me 2 because I had to give my food processor 10 minutes between each blending marathon to cool off as I’d smell the machine starting to overheat.

I used 3c of unsweetened organic shredded coconut from Thrive Market (doesn’t expire for another 5 months) and a 6 cup cuisinart food processor. Not sure why it took me 12x longer to get the results.

Hi! My food processor was on the fritz so I used my vitamix and it worked perfectly in under 2 minutes on high speed! Now getting ready to make pumpkin fudge for a party with my fresh creamy coconut butter! Thanks for the recipe

I used the desiccated coconut-4 cups in my cuisinart processor and ran it for about 20 minutes (until the motor was quite hot). It got soft, but not creamy or liquidy as in the recipe. I gave up and added coconut cream and processed for another 5 min. after the motor had cooled. The result was a soft paste, but still not creamy. I’ll try using it like this and see how I like it.

I can’t believe this is so easy. It did take 12 minutes in my 7 cup Cuisinart, but I ran it til it was really smooth.

Used my 9cup Ninja Food Processor. Added 4.5cups, a TBSP coconut oil and about 25 minutes in order for it to get creamy. But excited to try it out in my butter bread!!! ❤️

I have made this with great success, multiple times. I have a Cuisinart processor and agree the second ingredient is patience.

Tried in my Cuisinart and added more and more flakes until it was past the fill line, but no luck. It did not turn creamy, even with 3 packages of flakes after more than a few minutes. Transferred to my Vitamix, still dry. Added a Tbsp of coconut oil and voila. The oil solved the problem.

Did not work, even after over 30 mins using new GE professional processor. I tried the large bowl, and then the small. Used 4 cups of Kroger Simple truth unsweetened coconut flakes. What did I do wrong? Disappointed, as I was making the Almond Joy protein bites for my daughter for valentine’s day.

Great recipe! I read the distressed comments and decided to follow the recipe exactly to see what happens. My results were as Dana described. My organic shredded coconut was from Trader Joe’s and feels quite dry. My handy lil food processor is by Black and Decker and NOT state of the art. I did blend a little longer closer to 15+ min (possibly because of my little engine that could). It was like icing. The missing ingredient from the recipe is a TBSP of raw Patience. My 8yo soon watched and helped and at the end he tasted it and proclaimed, “it’s a miracle!”🤣

I tried it with frozen fresh, finely shredded coconut, but after more than 30 minutes in 2000W professional food processor the result does not come close to a liquified smooth butter. It basically remained shredded coconut, as I expected when reading the method. Since the fresh shredded coconut is a bit moist I didn’t try with some water or oil. I experimented with various filling levels of the machine, from 50% to 100% but no difference to the end result.

It turned out really good.
Thanks for lovely recipe!
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Made this in my vitamix! Worked like a dream and turned the flakes to butter in under 3 minutes. Wonderful recipe, you’re the best as always!

This could not have been easier. I was going to avoid making it by just buying some, but it’s so expensive. So i went for it. At first I was worried bc so many people commented on having difficulty. I don’t understand why. You just put the recommended amount in, turn the processor on, scrape down the bowl once or twice, and magically 10 min later you have butter. It doesn’t make much either, which I’m happy about. Not a health food so I didn’t want a ton to have to get through.

Like some others, I made the mistake of prioritizing emptying my pantry rather than sticking strictly to unsweetened coconut…I should have read the comments first! Only after I was stuck with tiny particles of sweetened coconut refusing to liquefy did I read the comments…but in combining multiple tips, I was able to salvage the mixture into something edible, albeit not a coconut butter! I blended the whole thing for about 15 minutes total, adding in some coconut oil and a little hot water to help it along, and eventually ended up with something the consistency of marzipan. I rolled it into balls, froze them, and coated them in chocolate…hey, after having to listen to the food processor grinding so much, I deserve a treat, right?

So, the new design of the vitamix motors is to REDUCE huge amounts of kickup. because of this, the blender worked perfectly for me!!

I made the coconut butter with my Philips 300W Pro Mix Titanium blender and it worked! It took a while because I had to let it cool down a couple of times, but I got butter in the end. Thank you a ton for all your wonderful recipes! :)

I’m so happy I found this recipe! I thought I would have to go out and buy it for this chocolate fat bomb I am making.
I only had a 1 cup processor, so I put it in my blender to make the pieces much smaller and slowly added them into the processor. Wow! I never knew how simple this is! Thank you!

I just made this butter, I used a whole pack (250g) shredded coconut. I was a little worried at first as it just kept spinning but eventually turned out well! I am impressed. Prob took about 10 mins or less.

I have a cuisanart food processor. I churned the coconut for about 45 minutes, two days in a row, and it won’t go past that clumpy stage. It refuses to liquify. Disappointed I wasted so much coconut. I think I might just order coconut butter online. It’ll save so much time and effort

OMG! Where have this been all my life?!

Nut and seed butters make my face break out. Then coconut butter idea came along. I only had a bag of 8.8oz of shredded coconut, so I had to use something small, but strong and sharp, to blend it… found my Magic Bullet. With patience,
1) I filled up the cup, blended a little bit,
2) when there’s room, I added some more coconut, blended again,
3) then when there’s more room, I added more coconut … repeat until I emptied the bag (or until my cup was full)
4) finally, last hurrah of blending, until every coconut bits were liquified
5) And…I got coconut butter! I’m so excited. It couldn’t be easier. Bad points- I blended it too long on my final hurrah; it’s coconut milk. Now I have to wait for it to cool down and solidify a bit. (I would add pics, but I don’t know how : )

I spent over half an hour doing this in my Breville 12 cup mixer workhorse (BFP660). I used the 14oz Great Value sweetened flaked coconut I bought from Walmart (with all the additives : Ingredients: COCONUT, SUGAR, WATER, PROPYLENE GLYCOL (SUSTAINS FRESHNESS), SALT, SODIUM METABISULFITE (TO RETAIN WHITENESS)).
After about 10 min, I saw that I wasn’t going to get past the finely shredded phase, so I plopped in a heaping Tbsp of unrefined coconut oil (44g). After about another five minutes of processing, it was looking a little better, but not getting far. By now the flakes, that took up almost the whole bowl in the beginning, were shredded down to taking up only 2-3 cups. I thought maybe the blades didn’t have enough material to work with. So I got out the mini-bowl (3 cup?) for the Breville, and started processing in that. Only seemed a tiny bit better. Plus, I sliced off the end of my silicone spatula twice, trying to keep the coconut falling down into the center instead of climbing the sides. (I was putting the spatula through the opening in the pusher.) At about the 20-25min mark, when I was thinking of giving up soon, I decided to put in a couple Tbsp of hot water. This produced a noticeable result after a few more minutes. The mixture was finally starting to look a little like coconut butter. After about 30min (total), I added two more tablespoons of hot water. After a few more minutes, it started looking even better, and even resembled coconut butter. I never got it quite to the consistency of Artisana’s coconut butter (which is almost perfectly smooth), but I got it close enough for making Millionaire Cranberry Salad. Actually, my final product looks very much like the picture in the top of the page with the hand, spoon, jar, and measuring cup of dry, shredded coconut.
In the future, I think I’ll start with the hot water very early on, after the coconut has shredded down a lot, and will probably switch again to using the small processing bowl once the coconut has compacted down in the large processing bowl. I’m wondering if it’s lack of moisture that kept the coconut from turning mushy. Or maybe the preservatives are interfering???
But despite the final result not being very smooth, it is still quite yummy and doesn’t have that uncomfortable texture that I find in flaked coconut.

So, everyone – if you have a food processor use that. If you have a stick blender, use that. If you have a coffee grider, use that.

You can use anything to blend your butter. Don’t be so stuck on a recipe’s rediculous suggestions that you give up!

I have a wonderful hand crank food processor, put my coconut in it and it just churned this into pulp. Nothing more, just pulp. Blended in a coffee grinder and I got the butter consistency I wanted.

Long story short. Use whatever you have. I’d probably have made my butter in seconds rather than hours hand cranking if I didn’t want to follow the recipes instructions of ‘only use a food processor’

Sadly, after 45 minutes, still nothing but shredded coconut. I added water, milk, and coconut oil. Still nothing but wet coconut.

Guessing my processor is not powerful enough or maybe the blades are tired. I ended up with something that was more like mashed potatoes. I gathered from the comments not to expect anything like super creamy butter but I don’t think I even got close. Sad. I was hoping to pour it over the no bake carrot cake balls, guess I’ll just dip them or something… It tastes great! But I’m worried about serving to someone who didn’t see me make it because of the weird texture.

This turned out amazingly. I was hesitant to try it because of all the reviews saying it didn’t work. I did it with my Hamilton Beach Food Processor and only took about 5 minutes. So glad I tried it because I haven’t been able to find coconut butter very easily. Tastes wonderful! Now I can make that Tropical Fat Bomb I’ve been anxious to try.

I read in many recipes that it isn’t recommended to use a Magic Bullet or similar blender but that’s exactly what I used and it came out unbelievably great! The only thing I did was half the recipe and it worked perfectly. I used Bob’s Red Mill shredded coconut and added a 1/4 tsp of vanilla extract when it started acting like it was too thick and it only took about 10-15 minutes. Thanks so much for this recipe as I am a huge coconut lover. (my only problem with this recipe is that it never lasts long after I make it)