Vanilla Maple Coconut Butter

There's really nothing easier than this stuff. Well, assuming you've got a Vitamix (or super high power food processor) on hand. What do you need? One ingredient. And then make it your own however you want to.

What you need:

Unsweetened coconut flakes (shredded, large flakes, whatever)...toast them beforehand if you'd like! I'm not specifying a quantity, because it's all about how much you want! I had about 2 cups of medium shreds...and it made about 8 oz of butter

What I added:

1 tsp pure vanilla extract

1/2 tsp maple extract

10 drops liquid stevia

Add coconut to Vitamix. Let it run for a few minutes. It'll go from flakes, to getting kind of pasty, to getting a little more liquified. Keep going. Add in your other ingredients (get crazy here! any kind of extract, nuts, cocoa powder, etc)...and crack it up on high for a few minutes. Take a look at it. It'll be getting hot, looking runny...keep going! When you're sufficiently satisfied with the smoothness of it, distribute into jars or whatever container(s) you'd like to store it in! Don't cover yet. Let it sit on the counter to cool off first, then put in the fridge for another day or so before covering, so you're not locking in any condensation.

Be careful....you may want to recruit someone to distribute this to you....or just grab a spoon and get ready to kill the whole batch. No guarantees on the aftermath of that, but it'll be pretty fabulous going down.