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What’s the best plant milk to use to make butter and do you have to add oil to it?

Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

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This event was on March 18, 2025

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Question

Toni Crawford

What’s the best plant milk to use to make butter and do you have to add oil to it?

Answer

So I've made, uh, a couple different plant-based, um, butters. There's one that's in our plant-based pro course that I, I came up with and there's one in the plants plus course. And I think that we're using, um, almond milk in that and we use coconut oil as well in that one as, um, but I'd have to look up the recipe for it. So, um, there are a lot of different ways to be able to make, um, you know, plant-based butter. Um, that one with the coconut oil is one that I've done before. Um, I do, it is a little bit of a laborious process, so I do have to say I usually buy mine instead and I buy it depending on what the use case scenario is. Like I'll buy one kind if I'm doing something like, you know, putting it on a bagel or I'll buy a completely different kind if I'm using it for baking just because it has a different consistency to it as well too. Um, but you can do a quick search up in our search. Um, and you'll probably find the plant-based butter if you're on the plant-based pro course.

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

*Dan Marek* is a chef educator who has been teaching vegan and vegetarian cooking for over 15 years. At Rouxbe, he is our Director of Plant-Based Culinary and Development where he helps develop content, classes and builds courses for many of our partners. Dan is a board member of Slow Food Austin, the Institute of Child Nutrition, and Conscious Capitalism. He has earned his BA in Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University and holds certificates in Nutrition from Cornell University. Prior to his role with Rouxbe, Dan worked with Whole Kids Foundation training teachers and food service at schools across the country on nutrition and culinary best practices. He also worked as a Healthy Eating Educator at Whole Foods Market’s flagship store in Austin, TX, was a personal chef for some of Austin’s elite business people, taught classes in culinary techniques at Austin Community College, The Natural Epicurean, and Le Cordon Bleu. Dan also regularly volunteers cooking or speaking about nutrition for the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Marathon Kids, Health Alliance for Austin Musicians, and the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Austin and Central Texas.