Coconut Butter

Yesterday I told you how awesome Chocolate-Covered Katie's vegan chocolate fudge is. Well, here's how to make the key ingredient, Coconut Butter. Trust me, this will revolutionise your baking, cooking and eating life!

Coconut Butter Recipe

Ingredients

• Coconuts
• Coconut Oil

Method

1. Take the hair off the coconut.
2. Pierce the eyes and drain the coconut.
3. Wrap the coconut in a towel and beat it with a hammer until it shatters. (This bit is immensely satisfying!)
4. Pry the coconut flesh out of the shell, then carefully cut off the brown skin outside of the coconut flesh.
5. Use a juice extractor to get the coconut milk out of the coconut flesh (Hmm, coconut milk. Sooo good in cocoa!)
6. Lightly toast the coconut in a pan, over a low heat. Toast until just brown.
7. Once the coconut has cooled, blend it in a food processor until smooth.
8. Add coconut oil and blend until it looks like coconut butter - smooth and creamy and awesome.

Coconut butter is great as frosting on cakes and cupcakes, spread on bread or toast, or eaten from the jar! (Assuming it makes it into a jar). You can use coconut butter to make the fudge yesterday, or as an ingredient in baking, in the place of nut butter or flour.