Vegan Chocolate Peanut Butter Spread from Scratch

Indulge in the heavenly combination of rich velvety chocolate & peanuts in this homemade vegan chocolate peanut butter spread.

Making peanut butter from scratch is fun and gives you a purer product than shop-bought peanut butter and adding chocolate makes it even more special.

This simple recipe makes a small batch of vegan chocolate peanut butter.

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• 🥜 Make it from peanuts
• 🍫 Dark chocolate or chocolate chips
• 💭 Can you make chocolate peanut butter with cocoa powder?
• 👩🏻‍🍳 Vegan alternative to Nutella
• 👪 A favourite chocolate spread with children
• 📋 What you need to make vegan peanut butter with chocolate
• 🥣 Making a smoother chocolate peanut butter
• 🍓 How to serve vegan peanut butter spread
• 🥫 Storing homemade peanut butter
• 🍫 More chocolate recipes
• 🥞 Pairing with chocolate nut spread
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• 👩🏻‍🍳 How to make vegan chocolate peanut butter spread
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🥜 Make it from peanuts

Shop-bought peanut butter often has additives as well as palm oil, which should always be avoided if possible. You can read more about palm oil on the WWF website.

Thankfully, it's super easy to make peanut butter at home.

All you need is a food processor or blender and some peanuts.

I like to use salted, roasted peanuts. They have lots of flavour and there's no need to add extra salt.

🍫 Dark chocolate or chocolate chips

Dark chocolate is added to the homemade peanut butter to make this tasty vegan spread.

It is melted before it's added so you can use squares of dark chocolate or chocolate chips.

The chocolate is melted in the microwave or a bain marie, which is a bowl suspended over a pot of simmering water (making sure the base of the bowl does not touch the water as the chocolate can seize).

💭 Can you make chocolate peanut butter with cocoa powder?

You can definitely make chocolate peanut butter with cocoa powder.

However, it does require some extra oil added to the mixture, as the powder will dry the peanut butter out.

Melted chocolate gives you a richer finish.

👩🏻‍🍳 Vegan alternative to Nutella

This easy chocolate peanut butter makes a good vegan alternative to Nutella, but made with peanuts instead of hazelnuts.

And it doesn't contain palm oil as Nutella does.

👪 A favourite chocolate spread with children

Homemade chocolate peanut butter is a real winner with kids.

Heck, anything with chocolate is and we all know they need to include nuts in their diet, but they aren't always keen on eating them as a snack.

My son loves this vegan chocolate spread and keeps asking me to make another batch.

But, it's not just kids, big kids and adults love it too!

Talking about an easy vegan spread that kids (and adults) love, try this easy homemade maple butter.

Love that peanut butter and chocolate combo? Try these peanut butter chocolate truffles with a secret ingredient that makes them healthier.

📋 What you need to make vegan peanut butter with chocolate

Here are the simple ingredients you need to make this vegan chocolate spread.

• Roasted and salted peanuts - you can use plain and add a pinch of salt, but make sure they are skinned peanuts
• Maple Syrup - just a little
• Dark Chocolate - or dark chocolate chips

See the recipe card below for full quantities and method.

🥣 Making a smoother chocolate peanut butter

This recipe makes a thick chocolate peanut butter, but you can make this a thinner and smoother spread.

Just add a splosh of either mild olive oil or some oat milk (or your regular milk) while you are blending it.

However, if you add milk, it will need to be kept in the fridge.

Add oil instead and it can be kept in a jar in your store cupboard for a few days.

🍓 How to serve vegan peanut butter spread

Of course, you could just eat it with a teaspoon, but if that's not for you, here are some more serving ideas for this delicious plant-based chocolate spread.

• Toast - Spread on toast
• Bruschetta - make a sweet bruschetta by spreading it on toasted sourdough and topping it with slices of strawberry and mini vegan marshmallows
• Banana sandwich - team it with sliced or mashed banana on a sandwich
• Rice cakes - spread it on rice cakes, my son's favourite way of eating this dairy-free chocolate spread
• Biscuit - on a digestive biscuit (it's a British thing, like a graham cracker), vegan of course
• Pancakes - try it spread on these delicious vegan banana pancakes
• Overnight Weetabix - try it on vegan overnight Weetabix with yoghurt.

I'm sure you'll come up with more tasty ideas for serving this chocolate peanut butter.

🥫 Storing homemade peanut butter

Homemade peanut butter is best kept at room temperature in a store cupboard.

Keeping it in the fridge would harden it.

Keep it in an airtight jar in a cupboard for up to 2 weeks.

🍫 More chocolate recipes

Looking for more vegan chocolate recipes? Try these:

🥞 Pairing with chocolate nut spread

These are a few recipes to serve with vegan chocolate peanut butter:

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👩🏻‍🍳 How to make vegan chocolate peanut butter spread

These step-by-step photos will show you how to make this delicious vegan chocolate nut spread. Keep scrolling for the full printable recipe (with full ingredient list, calories and nutritional info).

Step 1

• Add the nuts to a food processor or blender and blend.
• It will take a few minutes so be patient.
• First, it will be crumbly then the oils in the nuts with start to be released and it will become soft and creamy.
• Now add the maple syrup and keep blending.

Step 2

• Chocolate now!
• Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave or in a bain marie.
• Once it is melted, add to the peanut butter and blend again.

Step 3

• Spoon into a clean jar with a tight lid (I like to run it through the dishwasher and add the chocolate spread while the jar is still warm, the same way I would for jam).
• Serve and enjoy!