This Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter is the perfect 5 ingredient Healthy Winter Breakfast Spread or Dip for toast, crackers, yogurt, oats or fruit!
I’m a bread girl. Is any woman NOT a bread girl??! Gd bless you if you’re not, but man you’re missing out. I can eat a good loaf of bread au natural, but we all know everything always tastes better with a good spread. I don’t discriminate either. I’ll take butter, nut butter, jam, honey, cream cheese or compote. But when I want to get a little more festive in this winter vibe and bust out everyone’s favourite pumpkin spice flavours, I make this bad ass vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter.
How to Make Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter
Okay, so Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter is kind of an oxymoron, no? It’s also a bit of a misnomer, but I can’t help what the rest of the culinary world would call a spread like this. First of all, there’s no butter in this Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter. In fact, there’s no dairy at all. Rather, it’s a tasty combination of pumpkin puree, soaked cashews, coconut sugar, vanilla and of course, pumpkin pie spice. It couldn’t be more simple, yet it tastes like eating the pumpkin pie filling right out of the crust.
The key is that you have to soak your cashews over night so that they’re easy to puree in the blender the next day. If you forget (or just want to make this on the fly as I do sometimes), you can easily boil some water and simmer them for a 5-10 minutes until soft. No stress, you got this.
Then I puree the cashews with the pumpkin, sugar and spices and smear that Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter all over everything. It’s delicious on a thick slice of good quality whole grain toast, but it’s equally yummy on crackers, used as a dip for fruit or swirled through yogurt or oatmeal. You’ll definitely want to make a big batch of this stuff and put it on everything. Because, come on, pumpkin spice everything is LIFE.
Now I want to know, have you tried this Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter?
What would you envision it going really well on or with?
Leave me a comment below with your thoughts!
Vegan Pumpkin Pie Butter
Ingredients
- 2 cups soaked cashews
- 2 cups pumpkin puree not pumpkin pie filling!!
- 4-5 tbsp coconut sugar or to taste
- 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Big pinch of salt
Instructions
- In a high speed blender, puree the cashews until they're grainy but broken down. Add in the pumpkin, sugar, spice, vanilla and salt and continue to puree until very smooth and creamy.
- Serve on toast, crackers, yogurt, oatmeal or with fruit!
Nutrition
Updated on October 23rd, 2020
Abbey Sharp is a Registered Dietitian (RD), regulated by the Ontario College of Dietitians. She is a mom, YouTuber, Blogger, award winning cookbook author, media coach specializing in food and nutrition influencers, and a frequent contributor to national publications like Healthline and on national broadcast TV shows.
Alisha Ross says
I ate a lot of doughnuts growing up… And still do! I was always a jelly doughnut girl but now I like the ones with the crushed peanuts best! Totally gonna try these ?
Abbey Sharp says
donuts are the best! i hope you enjoy the recipes 🙂
Mary Ann Jones says
The recipe looks great – but how much is one serving? I know it makes 16 servings – but of what size?
Chelle G. says
At 16 servings, each serving would likely be roughly 1/4 cup. I don’t think it’s one of those things where serving size is a huge deal (unless you’re on a restricted diet of the life-and-death variety). Just use what you like & enjoy. ?
Agness of Run Agness Run says
Yum! This butter recipe looks so mouth-watering, Abbey! Can’t wait to give it a try and start the day with it!
Abbey Sharp says
Love it! Thanks love
Farrah says
That pumpkin pie butter looks amazing! Yay for so few ingredients!
Abbey Sharp says
Yass my fav kind of recipes
jill conyers says
Abbey this sounds amazing. Maybe I can find time to make it for Christmas morning.
Abbey Sharp says
Oooh great plan! Thanks Jill
Rachel says
Yummy! That toast looks good.
Abbey Sharp says
super tasty 🙂
Mikki says
WOW! This looks so good. I just printed it out because I’m going to be making a homemade pumpkin pie, so I will have the pumpkin puree out!
Can’t wait to try this.
Abbey Sharp says
Oooh that’s awesome! Enjoy love
Carrie says
Looks good but I am so not a pumpkin girl lol I feel like I’m the only one that doesn’t like pumpkin anything!
Abbey Sharp says
Fair enough!
Laura says
Such a great idea for winter spread! It’s now on my to-do list.
Abbey Sharp says
Amazing! Enjoy love