As they say, ‘Necessity if the mother of invention’…

I woke up this morning and wanted to create my almost daily ‘peanut butter on Ritz crackers’ breakfast (no comments, please).  However, I discovered we were out of peanut butter.  Kind of hard to make this breakfast without peanut butter!  SO….I decided to give making homemade peanut butter a shot.  After looking on the Internet for a recipe and modifying it I came up with this.  It tastes pretty good and in my opinion is a lot better than the ‘natural’ peanut butter you find in the stores (perhaps due to its sugar content).

  • 1 cup of lightly salted dry roasted peanuts
  • 1/16 cup of margarine (margarine seems to be the critical point in getting the right flavor and texture)
  • 2 teaspoons of brown sugar
  • 1/8 teaspoon of salt

I used a mini food processor and ran it for about 5 minutes.