252. How to make Sun Butter

Welcome to Sun Butter Week!  I actually don’t LOVE sunflowers – they are a little too robust for me to relate to easily – but I love that they make me think of my favorite “radiant” verse, and their seeds make a fabulous nut-butter alternative.

221. Radiant

I am trying to be more inclusive on here since many dear ones live with nut allergies or have a peanut-restriction in their diet so I recently tried making a bunch of sun butter experiments.  I’ll post 3 this week, including this one.

Let’s start at the very beginning, a very good place to start…

In order to make things with sun butter, you need sun butter.  You can either buy a jar at the store or make your own.  I opted for choice 2.  I bought 2 16 oz bags of sunflower seeds, 1 raw, and 1 roasted and salted.  I mixed the two together and ground them in my Vitamix in two batches.  I added a tiny spoonful of coconut oil to the first batch to aid the transition, and a drizzle of EVOO to the second batch.  Many people don’t add anything, though, so this is optional.  I only have the wet cup, so I used it and the tamper.  The process was fast and easy – it was obvious when the butter transition was happening and pretty soon I was scraping out creamy sun butter into my jars.  I got a couple of jars out of my 32 oz of seeds – probably 2-3 cups.  Sorry for the vague measurements, but what did you expect?

It tasted delicious, and I have long been devoted to peanut butter, and only peanut butter.  This was one of my first experiments.

240. Sun Butter Brownies [GF & Vegan]