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Make your own cinnamon peanut butter at home with this easy recipe! It's sweet, savory, and so good you'll want to spread it over everything.

Customize this homemade cinnamon peanut butter to make it as smooth and creamy or chunky as you’d like. This simple recipe is made with all-natural ingredients and will remind you of cinnamon raisin bread but in a spreadable form.

jar of cinnamon peanut butter next to spoon full of the spread

Cinnamon Peanut Butter with Raisins

Adding raisins to homemade cinnamon peanut butter makes a deliciously sweet twist on traditional peanut butter. This recipe is sweetened with a touch of maple syrup, which you can omit of course, and has a spreadable consistency.

You can use this on toast, to make a sandwich, over rice cakes, or enjoy it by the spoonful; there’s no wrong way of eating it!

Ingredients

For this simple recipe, you’ll only need shelled raw peanuts, a bit of salt to enhance the flavors, coconut oil to smooth it into butter, cinnamon, and, optionally, maple syrup and raisins, depending on how you like your peanut butter.

How to Make Cinnamon Peanut Butter

Chop
Add the peanuts and salt to the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times to give them a rough chop.
Process
Add the cinnamon and pulse a few more times before turning the food processor on for 3 to 5 minutes until the peanuts form a paste.
Add the other ingredients
Add the oil and maple syrup, if using, and process for an additional 5 minutes until you have a peanut butter consistency.
Fold in the raisins, optional
Remove the blade and fold in the raisins if you want them. Serve just like you would regular peanut butter.

If you don’t have a food processor, you can make this in a high-speed blender; both are equipped with a motor and blades that are strong enough to grind the peanuts into a smooth paste.

Store leftover peanut butter in an airtight jar or container and refrigerate for up to 1 month.

overhead view of jar of homemade cinnamon peanut butter

Success Tips

Be patient
If your peanut butter is a “ball,” it hasn’t been processed long enough. It takes time for the raw peanuts to form a paste. Process for another 5 minutes, pausing a few times to scrape the walls.

Scrape down the sides of the food processor
This helps incorporate the grounds around the edges into the butter, so everything turns out even and smooth.

Add enough oil
If your peanut butter is too thick, it needs additional oil. Add only a teaspoon at a time.

How to Use Cinnamon Peanut Butter

You can pair this cinnamon peanut butter with fruit, top it over oatmeal, or spread over toasts, muffins, and biscuits. Basically, you can serve it any way you would use regular peanut butter.

If you like making your own nut and seed butter, try my creamy pumpkin seed butter and this Sunflower Seed Nutella recipe.

Easy Cinnamon Peanut Butter

Servings: 14 servings (about 1 ¾ cups)

Prep Time: 10

Total Time: 10

Make your own cinnamon peanut butter at home with this easy recipe! It's sweet, savory, and so good you'll want to spread it over everything.

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Ingredients

2 cups raw unsalted peanuts, shelled no skin
½ teaspoon salt, omit if using salted peanuts
1 – 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup or honey, optional
1 ½ – 2 tablespoons coconut oil
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon
⅓ cup raisins, optional

Instructions

Place the peanuts and salt in a food processor and pulse a few times to give them a rough chop.
Add the cinnamon and give it to a few more pulses.
Turn the food processor on for 3 to 5 minutes, pausing periodically to scrape the sides of the bowl.
Add the coconut oil and maple syrup, turn on for another 3 to 5 minutes until it forms a smooth and thick paste.
Remove the blades and fold in the raisins, if using.
Transfer the peanut butter to an airtight container and refrigerate for up to 1 month.