Raw, Vegan Macaroons
Seriously, this might just be the best macaroon recipe you will ever find.
The best because they’re:
- Sooooo easy and quick to make.
- Incredibly-healthy.
- Melt-in-your-mouth delicious.
Presenting Raw Macaroon Babies, the new BFFs of the raw Mounds Bars!
Completely raw, entirely vegan, and without any added sugars…
Wait, don’t go! I swear they’re just as yummy—if not more so—as traditional sugary, non-vegan macaroons.
But honestly, did you expect anything less from a member of the Fudge Baby family? Maybe I’m a biased mamma, but my Macaroony Babies are so much better than the Coconut Cream Pie Larabars… and that’s saying something, as the CCP Lara is one of my favorites. But the CCP Larabars don’t melt on your tongue like these homemade Larabar babies do 
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(Form the macaroons into balls, bars, or cookie-cuttered shapes, just like the Peanut Butter Babies.)
I seem to remember raw macaroons making the rounds in the blogworld earlier this year (Ani Phyo’s recipe, perhaps?), and I meant to get on board but never did. Something about the laundry list of ingredients and necessary gadgets involved intimidated the heck outta me. I don’t even know what a dehydrator looks like, let alone how to use one! With my busy life, if I had any hope of making a raw macaroon, the recipe needed to be easy, quick, and lacking any use of the aforementioned D word. So I made up my own recipe. (Can I still call it a recipe if there are only two ingredients?)
Macaroon Babies
- 80 grams dates (if you’re unsure about what kind to use, see the Baby FAQ Page)
- 15-23 grams (about 1 to 1 and 1/2 tablespoons, depending on how truffle-y you want them) coconut butter (I used Artisana)**
- Optional: shredded coconut, chopped almonds, cocoa powder, cinnamon, jam, lime, rum, chocolate chips or melted chocolate, etc.
**Note: A few readers/bloggers have successfully subbed coconut oil for the coconut butter.
1. Blend, using your blending gadget-of-choice (I use the Magic Bullet short cup).
2. Mix in your coconut if using. (I don’t really like shredded coconut, so I opted to leave it out for the bar below.) Alternatively, you can roll the balls in coconut after forming them (as in the first photo of this post).
3. Form in shapes of your choice. You can use the plastic bag trick. If you find the mixture too crumbly, put the bag in the fridge for a while before forming shapes.
4. Due to the melty nature of coconut butter, store the Macaroon Babies in the fridge or freezer (that is if ya don’t eat them all first!).
5. If you do happen to have a dehydrator, I’m guessing you can use it on these… but don’t take my word for it, since I’ve never even seen a dehydrator in real life before, let alone used one.
Variation: (I listed other ideas in the optional ingredients, but this one variation is so special he deserves his own shout-out)
Dried pineapple + macaroon baby = Pina Colada Baby
It’s a Boy!
On tomorrow’s agenda: Raw, vegan Mounds Bars!!
!!!!!! Ok, so at least one person’s excited, even if it is only me 
Now, go make you some Macaroon Babies!
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Or fudge babies , cashew cookie homemade Larabar babies, peanut butter babies… or Mounds Babies!
#1 reason to make Macaroon Babies: It gives you an excuse to say, in your best Austin Powers voice:
“Macaroony Babies, yeah!”
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I can’t wait to try these!!!! I flippin’ love coconut!
OMG … Coconut Macaroons?! More than droolworthy, seriously!
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Well … I can’t get coconut butter .. aah, that sucks! (Germany sucks at the availability of many vegan things
Looking AMAZING Katie, way to go!!!!!!!! Basically once you have your date (and/or nuts) blend…you can just start adding ANYthing and the possibilities are endless and that’s what i love about raw cooking too…you can just go and create and do awesome stuff. No other appliances needed
Love this post for also consolidating all the backlinks on one page. Organizing the fudge baby family tree.
Raw Mounds bar action, can’t wait to see your creations!
Those look DELICIOUS!!
These look delicious, just like their fudge baby siblings. YUM. Ill post a link on my blog tonight about your Operation Chocolate Covered Kindness!
macaroony babies! ha love it! you have the best ideas, i have all the ingredients so i must make these raw macaroons soon, artisana coconut butter = love
xx
Eliza
raw MOUNDS bars?!? I’m excited for them
Yum, these sound easy and delicious!
You know I’m on board to make these! I already have coconut butter, but I need more dates (making all those fudge babies has drained my supply!) Can’t wait for tomorrow’s post!
what would cck be without chocolate-covered macaroons;). Hope you have enough people to eat all your wonderful creations!
what is the difference b/w coconut butter and coconut oil?
i have oil but have not seen butter…
Hey Katie! I just checked in on your blog and read about Operation Chocolate-Covered Kindness. You are so great for doing this! Of course I’ll help. Now I have an excuse to make one of your recipes again
mhm, I can imagine how good they are. yummy!
not gonna lie — I have been crazing samoas like no other now that girl scout cookie season is upon us — but your little macaroon babies are a more than worthy replacement
come up with a recipe to cure my thin mint woes, please?! 
I love all these raw goodies you’ve been makin’ lately…and I’m so mad cause yesterday was raw day, and I meant to make your fudgey babies for my next raw day. And totally forgot!!! I ended up getting my sweet fix with a Ginger snap Larabar…not as good as your babies, I’m sure.
Question: I’ve seen recipes lately that call for coconut butter, which I see you have. I’ve never seen any around here, but it looks just like solidified coconut oil. Is that the same thing?
OH…MY…GOODNESS!
Nice…so when are you going to start making these (and other fudge baby varieties) in mass quantity and selling them?!?!?!?!
Macaroony Babies, yeah!
I will definitely mention Operation Chocolate-Covered Kindness on my new blog soon (whenever I get off my lazy butt and start it!)
A-m-a-z-i-n-g!
There’s no way those aren’t amazing! The CCP Lara definitely is one of the best, so way to go by making it homestyle. Still have yet to pick up some coconut butter but I’m just DYING to try it.
I am drooling. I can’t wait to see the recipe for the Mounds bars!
Katie,
I have totally slacked on my linking duties. So sorry my friend! Need to get linking in my next few posts.
Super excited about the Mounds Bars.
Super jealous my Whole Foods still does not sell Artisana products!
Ok Sweetie, again your treats look amazing! Lucky I just got back from whole foods with a jar of coconut oil and it is Screaming Vegan Macaroons!!
You are too funny…your posts make me smile Doll!
I hope you are having a great day!
I bet I know what mound babies are made out of…..bliss??? hehe good thing I have a jar of that stuff lying around here. Ummm what’s the best way of melting coconut butter a bit so it can come out in tablespoon format? I’ve been boiling some water in a pot and then sticking the jar in there. I guess that’s really the only way…is that how everyone else does it?? (i’m a no microwave radiation kinda gal…*shudder*)
you know i love macaroons
i can’t wait to try your version- it looks amazing! i’m very excited for those mounds babies!
Whoa Katie! These treats just keep getting more and more delicious!!!
Hmm I’m not a coconut person but those look good enough to convert me!
Katie, I am amazed at how you make all of these creations with dates… I cannot keep dates in my house for longer than 24 hours!! My husband and I devour them within seconds, we are so addicted. I can never keep enough around!
Mounds bar sounds awesome – I also love to make raw, vegan “Almond Joy” bars by blending 3 c. almond meal, 6 T cocoa powder, 7 or 8 T. agave nectar, a splash of almond extract and a pinch of salt!
I am SOO partaking in makin me some macaroon babies. In fact, I think I’ll give it a shot during my self-care cooking session tomorrow
Have a fabulous evening, prettyyy!
Rebecca
Well, if you’re gonna force me, I guess I’ll bust out my coconut butter…and proceed to eat spoons of it straight from the jar:)
Mounds? OMG, my favorite!
coconut and chocolate are perfect.
ooh. ginger macaroons should make an appearance;)
i will be ze motha!
Wait … is coconut butter the same as coconut oil? If yes, then I do have the chance to make this!
Just found your blog – it’s great!! I just started my own and love finding new sites/readers – check it out if interested and add me to your roll
You are just one busy lady makin’ all these babies I tell ya–do I see and Katie as in the new John&Kate? Lol!
Wow! Great photos. I was always curious about the chocolate coconut butter. Ive seen it at the store a bunch and have always been tempted to buy it. What else do you use it for? Im super curious about it! I cant wait to start making some fudge babies. Great ideas. The chocolate with pb on it! oooooh delish! thats my favorite combo!!
yum yum yum!!!
Yet another GREATTT recipe
You know I whole-heartedly approve of anything delicious and coconut. I don’t know if I could bare to use up any of my beloved coconut butter in one, but you never know.
Just the recipe I was looking for! Love your new blog
I would eat the coconut butters by whipping up your raw macaroon recipe. I’ve never eaten raw before and I just think it would be so so so yummy and exciting.
I’m dying to try the raw mounds, as mounds bars are my favorite candy!
I think I would love to try making cashew cookie babies. Who am I kidding, if I won your contest I would have to make one of each flavour. And then use the remaining coconut butter to recreate that coconut pie you spoke so highly of.
mmm id use it in everything!! ive made all the babies with just regular coconut oil..dont put it past me to eat it straight up out of the jar
I would find a million different ways to use this- but I would most likely be eating it straight-up on toast
I would looooove to try the nut butters in a fudge baby recipe, I’m thinking pumpkin pie babies with nut butter?!? or peanut butter/banana/coconut pumpkin pie babies??…the opportunites are endless
My favorite way to use the nut butters would be as a topping for oatmeal!
Raw macaroons…oh yes!
I definately would be making some raw mac’s…. definitely one of my favorite desserts! Or almond joy fuge babies…
I would love it so I could start making some of your drool-inducing recipes (soo many fudge babiesss)!!
I have been drooling over your raw macaroon and almond joy babies, so I would definitely try those out if I got my hands on some of that coconut butter.
I think I would fall into the straight-outta-the-jar category
but also, I have been dying to make some of the fudge babies and almond joy babies… I really want to bring a raw dessert for Christmas this year, and I think those would be a massive hit!
Thanks for the giveaway!
i would use this in a sandwich w/ almond butter….on oatmeal, macaroons and mannnnnny more ways
i would definitely be making those macaroons!
I would use the coconut butter in banana oatmeal. Of course I would ‘melt’ the banana first, and prolly have to add some of that cocao bliss! Super YUM!
I just made my first batch of Babies yesterday and these nut butters would def. go into some experiements with those tasty nibbles!
Raw mounds bar for sure! Brownie Batter Oatmeal is calling me…it wants to be Mounds Brownie Batter Oatmeal. Yum-o!
What wouldn’t I do with the nut butters? Raw mounds bars most likely.
I would definitely make your raw mounds bar!
With the coconut butter/oil I would obviously make raw macaroons! I would eat the cashew butter with a spoon
straight out of the jar with a spoon!
No question, my first thing would be some coconut babies!! I’ve been drooling over them since you first posted, there’d be no excuse not to then!
I would use the coconut butter to make macaroon babies and the other nut butters would either be on top of my oats or eaten straight off a spoon!!
I would make raw macroon babies and eat it out of the jar.
Raw mounds bar! They look so good.
I would definitely make the raw Mounds – perhaps turning them into Almond Joys! I also love using coconut oil in baking and thai stir fries or curries, would love to see how coconut butter would fare in those as well. Or in my morning oatmeal! Oh boy, excited.
I want to make the raw Mounds! I also want to try the chocolate bliss on toast and oatmeal!
I would make the raw Mounds with Almonds for my sister – those were her FAV chocolate bars growing up. Perfect stocking stuffer
I’ve never tried Artisana, and most of the butters included in the giveaway are entirely new to me. I would probably sample some of them straight from the jar! (Hellllloooo cacao bliss!) Then make macaroon babies, add it to my morning oatbran…I really think the list could go on and on and on and on!
I would definitely be enjoying a spoonful a day of coconut butter =) so simple and delicious. And I would also try out some of your macaroon babies…and cookie dough babies, and all the other yummy recipes here. mmmm.
I would love to make some of these macaroons. I would add these butters to my oatmeal and top my pancakes.
i’d try the mounds bar of course, and maybe try it in oat bran, too!
I would love to try their chocolate bliss and make the brownie batter oats!
I have been really interested in experimenting with coconut oil! I would try substituting coconut oil in some of my favorite vegan desserts! I would also try the mounds bars adding almonds!!!!!!!!!
i would eat the nut butters with oats or bananas~!
Nutbutters on oats, oh yes!
I would probably eat the macadamia nut butter straight from the jar. I’d like to try making raw chocolate with the coconut butter, and eat the coconut oil on top of a baked sweet potato.
I would definitely use the nut butters in my oatmeal and for sandwiches. Oh, and for dipping in a spoonful and eating it straight like that!
To make plenty of raw treats
Oh man, macademia nut butter sounds amazing! But I’ve heard great things about cooking with coconut oil, I’d love to try it!! Maybe a veggie stir fry to start things off?!!
I’d use the raw nut butters to make some mounds babies!!!!
I have so many uses for these butters swirling around in my head (sauces, treats, dips, w/ fruit, plain….), but mostly I want to share them with my family so they can taste the deliciousness of nutritious raw nut butters! Especially my little brother who will only eat peanut butter and even then he “prefers” skip and jiffy because they are “real” peanut butter. I just know I could win him over with these nut butters and the raw goodies I would create.
i’ve never tried coconut butter before and i would LOVE to start experimenting with it!
I would eat the nut butters straight out of the jars because I love them that much!!
How would I eat them? Straight out of the jar. And on toast. And in grains. And with dates. And as frosting. And I’d eat other things out of the jar, HEAB style. And made into a sauce served over vegetables. And in Averie’s peanut butter cups, but with cashew butter. And. And…
Haha, the person above me has the same answer as me: straight outta the jar! I guess I might try to restrain myself and put it on toast…
I would most likely use the butters on oatmeal or in a sandwich. Mmmmm!
I would add the butters to my morning smoothies..creamy, nutritious, delicious!
The lovely nut butters would join me on my journey back to my home in Denmark. They would sure make a nice addition to the rice pudding we always get for Christmas. Instead of the traditional topping of cinnamon, sugar, and butter I’m imagining a spoonful of coconut butter, lots of cinnamon and a swirl of runny honey. Yum-o! Can’t think of a better marriage between Danish traditional cooking and American heaven-in-a-jar.
I would love to try some of these (and other) raw recipes using coconut butters. They look so completely decadent. I just got Ani’s Raw Desserts…which looks amazing, too. Can’t wait to try them!
I’ll be schmearing that coconut butter on my cinnamon raisin bagels!
oh my gosh my mouth is watering haha! well ive tried the coconut butter and i love it mixed with banana soft serve and almond butter!!! but id eat the other nut butters plain as well, with a spoon! so delicious
oh, I love mounds bars. I would definitely try the raw mounds bar.
I can think of so many ways to use these- baked into cookies, mixed into raw homemade larabars… but i would most likely drop a huge spoonful into my oatmeal every morning! thanks katie!
If I could stop myself from eating the whole jar with a spoon, I’d make a raw nutter and banana sandwich. I LOVE them!!
I have never had a a nut butter other than peanut butter and coconut butter and coconut oil are so rare to find in my small town that I haven’t tried them either so there would be much experimenting! I think the first thing I would do is to have a big spoonful of each
I have this divine cookie recipe which uses nut butter, so I’d love toexperimetn with different types to see which I like best!
I would put them in a smoothie, most likely
i would make some babies.. food babies-duh;)
I would love to spread any and probably all these nut butters on toast as well as use them for homemade larabars. Mmm….delicious.
I’ve been reading so much about the Artisana products, I think before I do anything fancy, I’d first like to try them all, straight-up!
This recipe is awesome, but I think I’d have to add almond extract and maybe some orange zest! Can’t wait to try them!
Mixed in with some steel-cut oats, of course!
I would love to use these to make fudge babies, in smoothies, and in my oats!
yuuummm. This would be so yummy in a peanut butter sandwich…. or on toast…. or alone!
I really hope I win@ I have been craving something coconutty and delicious!
After eating half the jar from a spoon, I’d probably eat the rest with my oatmeal or on toast.
i make my own granola bars and i’m sure adding some of these nut butters would make them even more delectable! maybe even a bit in my fruit shakes! mmm!
With all that wonderful nut butter, I’d probably make nut-butter filled chocolate cups! Or anything with a mix of nut butter/dates/cocoa powder…YUM!!
I would add it to my yogurt! YUM
I would first eat it with a spoon then spread it on apples or banana!
If I were to win the giveaway, I would use the prize to live in Fudge Baby dipper heaven. Dippin’ the babies in the different spreads…deliciocity overload.
If I win the giveaway I would eat the butters straight outta the jar
mm mm mmmm
Coconut Butter is one of my ALL TIME favorite ingredients. I have a million uses for this amazing & delicious treat, a few of which include: spelt biscuits (to make the batter and coat before baking), vegan pie crusts (and a little bit to my vegan fruit fillings too!); cacao-coconut truffles (raw and YUM); as the oil to saute veggies for my vegan coconut-cauliflower curry; and… given that it’s cold and dry outside I may even rub some on my skin for extra hydration!
The Cashew, Cacao, and Macadamia Butters will be EQUALLY used and enjoyed – mostly for baking and creating raw treats (especially that Cacao Bliss… mmm!). But they are also excellent additions to smoothies, sandwiches, and good to dip fruit in too. YUM YUM YUM!
In my oats, mmm mmm good!
I would use it in everything I could! my oats, my yogurt, and for my babies
thankyou much Katie!
I would probably lick them right off a spoon… yumm
I’d use it to make all the babies you posted about. They all sound totally delicious.
Wow! I would make raw oatmeal nut butter raisin cookies with 1/2 cup oatmeal, 1/2 cup dates, 2 T. nut butter, 1/4 cup raisins all blended in the food processor!
Haha, I think an easier question would be “what WOULDN’T I use these nut butters for?” ^.~
I would eat the nut butter on toast and straight from the jar!
I would definitely try making the mounds bar with this!! I LOVE coconut… I would also try it in my morning oat bran. Yummy!
I would eat these with bananas and apples and berries! So much fruit and yummy nut butters!
I would probably use them in a smoothie or in your raw mounds bars!
I would spread them on some yummy dark chocolate! YUM
I would eat the nut butter straight out of the jar or on a banana! YUM!
I think I’d eat it straight from the jar! Then, I’d think of some way to eat it that was a little less embarrassing …
I would use the nut butters, like so many others, in my oats! As well as on sandwiches, with fruit, and of course straight out of the jar! I’ve been wanting to dry Cacao Bliss for a long time…they all sound incredible!
First, I would take a spoon and sample each one. Obviously! Gotta get a feel for my new tools. Then I think I would get straight to work on some Fudge babies, which I’ve been dreaming about for quite awhile now.
If I won the give-away, I used make raw macaroons. For sure! I’d also love to experiment with trying new things with the coconut butter. Maybe adding some to Gena’s (at Choosing Raw) banana soft serve. Yum…
Definitely a splash of butter in the morning oats, but obviously my first use would have to be for whipping up a batch of the babies!!
I would make raw cookies with some, and eat the nut butters with a little (or a lot) chocolate or on toast. YUM!
Thanks!
If I win would be making mound bar babies galore!
Thanks for the recipes and the giveaway =]
I love nut butters on my oatmeal. I have it every morning and it’s so delicious. I’ve never tried artisana before! excited about the getaway!
Hmm if I were to win I’d totally jump on one of your fudge baby recipes, except I’d probably mess up in the process! In the mornings I always have such a hard time thinking of good, healthy breakfasts that will keep my brain going at college, I would probably put some on a whole grain waffle or toast with 100% fruit spread…and some more fruit of course. I’m a fruit freak.
Or I’d just eat them off of a spoon because that’s the cool way to do it . . . if I love it enough I’ll marry them, to quote the famous philosopher Pee Wee Herman: “If you love it so much why don’t you marry it?”
I would use the butters on everything because in my opinion they make anything and everything taste better
If I won the nut butters, I would would put it to good use by making these raw macaroons and the different fudge/cocoa babies recipes that are posted on your site for my family. I’ve trying to adopt a more vegan/raw food lifestyle to take better care of my health and I want to get my family to do the same. They are a bit skeptical but I think the nut butters and some time spent in the kitchen working on these awesome recipes will do the trick!
I so really want to try to raw macaroons and and bars. I would use the butters to make me a big batch. I made the pumpkin pie babies last night. Have to admit I am in love. This was my first raw recipe. I might be converted!! After trying the pumpkin pie babies last night I wrote the recipes down for other babies. I clicked on the link to see the nut butters that was listed and planned to order some. However the price is too hefty for my budget. I order a lot of finds from websites since I live in the sticks and don’t have a lot of options around me
I enjoy your blog and read it daily.
I hope I win!!!
Gosh, nut butta is gooood on anything. I’ve never tried Artisana brand before, but i can tell that they are just heaven in the mouth!!! I’m thinkin right now I’d like to mix the butters with pasta, mmmmmm. Can anyone say chocolate pasta. Drool…..Anyway, I be dreaming up some more ideas tonight as I sleep. Oh, oh on pineapple too..hmmmm
If I won these, I would try them in just about every way- how can you go wrong with coconut?! But I would definitely have to make some of those raw Mounds bars, for sure. YUM.
I’d add the nut butters to my morning cereal, yum!
I would use it to make fudge babies
I would use the coconut butter as a sub for butter in my Christmas cookie baking!
Ever since you started making raw desserts I’ve been wanting to try them! all of them! so I’d probably go for that first. Afterwards, who knows? I might end up experimenting
I’d probably use these butters to add some character to my banana smoothies. Nothing like a good butter to liven up a banana-soymilk smoothie!
Gotta make all these fudge babies you have been blogging about but there are so many possibilities!
I would love to win all the nut butters — I would use them in oatmeal and also make some yummy raw treats for my 3 kids — they would LOVE them
Thanks so much for an awesome giveaway!!
I’d most like to use the nut butters to try making fudge babies.
I would like to use the nut butters to make fudge babies and also would just have plain ole’ spoonfuls of the nut butters
…..so good!
If I won your contest, I would make some of your creations, but I would also make clean eating fudge. And clean eating nut butter fudge. The fudge consists of 3 ingredients, coconut oil, maple syrup or agave nectar, and cocoa! But now I’m thinking of adding nut butter and nuts. YUMMY! I could eat the coconut oil with a spoon
Have a great day!!!
i would definitely use the nut butters for desserts (aka every kind of chocolate-covered dessert there is!) fudge babies anyone?!
it would be great, since i have a dairy intolerance, its hard to find desserts i can indulge in!
These look fantastic! I love coconut butter and think making your own Larabars is a great idea- I’m gonna give these a try tomorrow AND the Coconut peanut banana butter too!
I just want to eat them with a spoon! Is that acceptable? haha
Honestly it doesn’t take much for me to enjoy nut butters! I’ll eat them out of the jar, or dip celery or carrot sticks in them. I’ll put them on my homemade gluten-free breads (I’m gluten intolerant) or whip up a creamy dessert. There’s nothing I can’t do with nut butter, or that coconut oil!
I would mostly use them on top of my oats…or straight out of the jar…..
I’d love to make the peanut butter babies…YUMMY!!
straight out of the jar, in oats, or on waffles!
I hope I win!
I’d make those mounds bars!
I would like to say I’d do all sorts of creative things with the artisana butters, but I’d probably just eat them straight out of the jar or on toast. Maybe in a smoothie if I were feeling really feisty.
I love coconut and pineapple so I’d make some pina colada “fudge” babies, maybe with a little lime zest thrown in
mmmm.. The macadamia & cashew butters would be divine in oatmeal or with breakfast quinoa! And of course, this would be an amazing supply of butters to make all kinds of babies! Babies Galore! <3
nut butters in oats!!!
i would make a big fat wrap with lots of salad greens and a dollop of the cashew butter (FIRST) (but then i’d like to give all of them a fair chance) and then add in hummus, honey, olives, some cherry tomatoes…some mushrooms too, now that i think of it…some goat cheese too.
I don’t even know where to start! There are way too many options. I love cashew butter simply spread on toast or good bread, or mixed into oatmeal. It’s really good with exotic jellies like my guava, or the latest addition from world market- orange ginger
I’d have to make some coconut babies of course and then just try it on toast or with cereals too. I use coconut oil for baking (though I have to admit to trying it with a spoon numerous times :X)
I think the cacao bliss could be mixed with my orange ginger jelly to make some amazing choco orange babies! :0!!
Ok well I’ll stop before I get carried away with all the great recipes I’ll invent.
Hope I win!
Honestly, I’d probably just eat the nut butters with a spoon. But to get fancy, I’d mix it with cereal and a chopped apple. My fav type of crunchy/fruity parfait
Oh, nut butters! I would put them in my oatmeal (yum), and then I would probably just eat them off a spoon until I remembered that I really (really) want to try to make some mounds bar babies. They look so delicious!
I would definitely eat it out of the jar then make some “babies”!
I would be eating those nut butters on ezekial toast with a cut up banana, in my oatmeal with cocoa powder, as a dip for apples and carrots and most definitly will be making your Fudge Babies and Peanut Butter Babies and the Pina Colada Babies and all the other ones I have bookmarked
I’d mix it into oatmeal
Mmm! I would definitely be using the coconut butter as a reason to FINALLY make some of the mounds babies!
Can I just eat them with a spoon out of the jar??? Ok, maybe in some oatmeal.
If I won I would make those Raw-Some Macaroons!!!!
I would make the raw macaroons and add chocolate…lots of chocolate
Yum! I would make Coconut Carob Macaroon Babies!
i’d love to try those macaroons! and i would also eat them with my oatmeal in the morning, or drizzled over coconut milk ice cream… yum.
I have never worked with coconut oil before, but I would love to try out some of your raw macaroons!
If I win I’m going to be all over Mounds Babies!
the nut butters would definitely be working hard in my morning oatmeal
I’ve been eyeing these butters for a while but they’re a little expensive. I’d like to add them to my oatmeal
i would put them in my oat bran, smoothies, and banana hammocks
Macaroons all day everyday! And larabars, and oats, and spreads, and lotion, the possibilities are endless!
I would use most of these as oatbran and oatmeal toppers. i would also use the nut butters as stir fry toppers. mmmmmmmmm
How would I use this stuff? In my daily morning bowl of oats, slathered on apples, straight off the spoon (my favorite bedtime snack), drizzled on roasted veggies and fruit, probably more off the spoon than I would like to admit…
All the items look amazing!
If I won the giveaway, I would definitely give your raw macaroons a try! And I’m also intrigued with using coconut oil as a beauty product..
I would love to make the Babies!
Love to try it with bananas!
I would make it with one of your Babies!!! Yum!
I would make it in a cookie or cake recipe!
oh, well that’s easy – raw mounds bar. yum!
oh I would definitely make some macaroons with that coco butter as I am redic. addicted to CCP larabars! and I would use all those amazing nut butters to top my oats and dip my apples in! mmm
if I win the artisana giveaway I plan to slather the nut butters all over bananas and apples, and maybe even eat some straight out of the container!
I would re create the cashew cookie larabar and the coconut cream pie one.
i would definitely make lots of nut butter and banana sandwiches! probably every day for lunch at work! yum!
If I won….
Okay, I’m super excited about this contest! I’ve been reading your blog for awhile now, and have been dying to try this coconut butter stuff (but, being a poor college student I can’t afford that right now, ha).
So, If I won, I would put all of those yummy jars to good use! Coconut infused oatmeal, cashew covered bananas, macadamia oatmeal with chocolate and bananas, coconut mac. bars, all of that together with oats sounds amazing too
Yummm….
I’m in love with homemade bread toasted with nut butters and a banana! Spice it up with some cinnamon or drizzled agave on top. Another way I’d use the nut butters is in my morning oatmeal!!! MMMMMmmmm…:)
If I won the Artisana giveaway I would be so exicted! I just discovered them via your blog, but have not tried them yet. I LOVE coconut oil and nut butters so I know that I would like these a lot. I am getting kind of tired of peanut butter, so something new would be fun.
If I won, I would use them to make Macaroon Babies ASAP. I would also use them on toasted wheat bread, pancakes, bananas, muffins, oatmeal, and icecream!! I am drooling just thinking about making a Cacao Bliss Sundae – SO Delicious Icecream + LOTS of Cacao Bliss!!
If I won the give away (fingers crossed!) I would be all over those Macaroon babies. They look amazing! and if they’re related to your others babies, I know they’ll be super good!
I love nut butters mixed in with cooked grains. So creamy, so satisfying, so delicious!
I would make the coconut macaroons and the mounds. yum!
i am so anxious to make some mounds bars! they would make a great portable snack!
I LOVE coconut and cashew butter on cereals, especially oats, kashi, and muesli. Makes a great breakfast or on-the-go dinner! I’d love the cacao butter on apples or pears, too.
I’ve only ever tried the cashew butter I’ve made, and I love Artisana coconut butter – It would be great to try their cashew and see how mine measures up!
Wow, honestly, I think for the nut butters, I might just go with straight toast.
Might sound boring…
but the thought behind it is I want to taste the nut butter for itself. Savor it, you know?
I’d love to win.
I would really love to make some delicious almond/peanut/sunflower butter fudge with it! Oh, it sounds so good..
Thanks for the opportunity! I’d slab a big spoonful on a bowl of steaming hot pumpkin oats!!
I would definitely make your macaroons. If I don’t win, I might just have to buy my own and make them anyway, because they look so good and easy to do!
I’d make your macaroon babies! (Then eat a spoonful by itself!)
Holy Yum….. I would glob some butter on these awesome macaroons! Wow they look tasty!
I would eat the nut butters off of my fingers!!!
I’d like to use the Artisana products for fudge babies…which I would eat with banana soft serve!
I have just started making chia puddings, and I would use the Artisana butters as add ins. Yum!
I would eat the nut butter whipped into a silken tofu pudding using a hand blender…so simple and creamy
How I would use the Nut butters if I won? You can put Coconut and Nut Butters on ANYTHING!!! I would probably make up some Samoan cookie thing with them, on bananas, or try a crazy new concoction, Kabocha anyone?
I will be making me some babies with that nut butter! and I’m not prejudiced… every baby will have their turn finding their way to mama’s tummy. I’ve been reading your blog for the past month or so and have yet to make a baby! My husband is coming home from a work trip tomorrow so maybe I will give him a lesson in making babies! Dessert, that is!
Mmm…nut butters…truly, is there anything better? I’m a big fan of eating them by the spoonful, but I really want to try those raw macaroons!
If I win the nut butters I will:
-Add over flowing spoon fulls to my morning oats to power me up for Pilates classes.
-Add them to nanner/spinach/hemp milk/flax smoothies.
-Eat them with sliced apples and nanners as I dash from class to class.
-Eat plain spoon fulls for when that midnight hunger that always seems to hit comes.
-Try out some amazing new raw recipes from your blog!
Thanks for the chance Katie!
omigosh i am dying to eat them with oatmeal! i see all these wonderful pictures of oatmeal art and i can’t wait to make my own bowl! i know for sure it’s going to include dark chocolate, banana and hopefully some nut butter!!
How would we eat our new yummy nut butters? Well, our favorite is spread over cinnamon bread, smeared with banana butter (great idea by the way) and topped with some chocolate and raisins…totally yummy! Then there is of course our morning oatmeal…and smeared between two halves of banana, used as a dip, oh…and we’d probably go to sleep with it too! hehehheee!
i’d like to eat them with a spoon! or make a top oatmeal or on an apple or nanner.
I would bake some fantastic cookies!
Raw vegan mounds bars…right up my alley
once again you’ve come up with an awesome recipe. i used to love mounds bars as a kid, but since going vegan, i kinda gave up on them. can’t wait to try these
Love to try on all sorts of fruit…..yum!!!
Love to try it on all sorts of fruit!!!
I would make macaroon babies – Love Macaroons!
Oh boy, I’d probably use all these butters for some cookies
Oooh. Banana coconut butter is really all I can think about making now.
Mmmm.
I would love to make these lara-type bars with the butters if I won them. YUM
Neat! Dates, though? Are those like figs or raisins?!
Anyhoodle, I am seriously looking forward to winning the coconut butter, macadamia, and cashew butters…all of it.
We are on limited diets here, and I’m also looking to cut the starches out of my life. I need some safe butters that we can eat to help substitute for what we don’t eat.
A couple of weeks ago I made my first batch of Almond Butter Pumpkin ‘brownies’ and they were so good. I would love to experiment with other squash purees and nut butters!
i would love to make anything in your “baby-family” hahaha. especially since santa is brining me my 1st food processor, it would be perfect timing
I’m made raw coconut and chocolate balls before and love them. Would love to try more raw deserts and bars.
Oooh…those macaroons look awesome! I think I’d make those first if I won.
So if I won these nut butters, first of all my oatmeal would get a whole new plethora of makeovers! Second, my options of babies would increase … hmmm … third, I would make a killer NutellaBU (HEAB) and (enter any nut butter won) sandwich! Fourth, My fruit would have a new nutty or coconutty twist! Fifth, have you ever tried this stuff over popcorn?
And Thanks for doing cool giveaways like this!! 
So many things I’d like to try! Enter me enter me!!
i’d make fudge babies and use them as oatmeal toppers. i’d also eat them plain (read: my favorite way to eat nut butters!) or slathered on a honeycrisp!
I’d definitely eat this on toast or a muffin!
Let’s see, I would eat this with oatmeal, or bread, or with a spoon (:)) or in baked goodies!!!!!!!
I’d love to make all sorts of yummy “babies”
I would definitely make a cashew butter, chocolate and marshmallow covered concoction. I love that combo!
Oh, Pina Colada Baby would be 1st !! Then a banana hammock, lol….. Love that !!!!
I’d love these over FRUIT or on top of my oatmeal. or just lickin ‘em off my hands
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Yummy macaroons! If I won, I’d probably make those or some coconut banana butter. You’re kind of a genius!
If I won I would definitely make the “babies” but more than likely I would just eat it out of the jar…lol.
Want those butters to use as icings for muffins and cupcakes and spoons!
I would obviously use all the nut butters in my morning oatmeal. I’ve drooled over bloggers’ oatmeal with cacao bliss way too many times. MMm.
After taste testing everyone of those jars, I’d start mixing the butters into lots of baby flavors! I think I also need to drizzle some over my morning flax waffle with cooked apples. Mmmmm
I like nut butter on top of oatmeal and mixed with yogurt
If I win those nut butter, I’ll be making some coconut babies and fudge babies and coconut babies and cashew babies and coconut babies and also some coconut babies.
can you tell i love coconut? i’m dying to try the coconut butter especially! it looks amazing.
I would have a big spoonful of cocao bliss with my oatmeal!
Raw vegan mounds bars sound like my dream snack! YUM!
if i win those nut butters i would make a humongous sandwich with coconut butter spreaded on both sides of 100% wholegrain bread, then a sliced banana, 85% lindt exellence dark chocolate over it then crushed almonds or walnuts then put it all together and place it into a to a sandwich press and toast it until dark chocolate is all melted and the coconut butter is oozing out! yumm!
I think I would try my hand at some creative asian stir fry sauces. I love peanut sauce, but i have a hunch that cashew sauce with pad thai noodles would be rich and delicious!
I’d love to try some in baking. macaroons sound pretty amazing!
If I won…
Spoon meet Nut Butters, Nut Butters meet Spoon (and Tummy!)
I’m dying to try some raw mounds
If I got the coconut butters, I’d whip up some recipes with…
Coconut-orange macaroons
or
Coconut-vanilla macaroons
This would be an awesome giveaway to win!
I would put the butters on absolutely EVERYTHING!!
I would love to try out the nut butters. Before baking some sort of cookie concatenation, I would definitely just bite into coconut-butter covered bread. YUM!
I would use the nut butters on oatmeal, bananas, baked sweet potatoes, and in one of your delicious recipes!!!
I would love to put the nut butters in my morning smoothies!
Ooh, I would so love to use these nut butters to make “babies” – they look like super wonderful bits of goodness to much before and/or after exercise.
My husband would die for these for Christmas. If I win, I’ll definitely make them for him for his stocking!
I would eat the butters with a nice big spoon
oh and i guess i’d also put them on my lovely jelly sandwiches and stir them in my oatmeal!
how wouldn’t I use these nut butters??! definitely to make some baking and “babies.” and eaten off a spoon…in smoothies…on apples…
The first thought that comes to me is deffinately just to eat straight out of the jar
LOL but I would also love to try the Raw Vegan Macaroons!
If I won the nut butters, I would eat them on toasted baguette (mmm!), try making no-bake cocoa-oat-nut butter cookies, and blend them with fruit in smoothies!
oatmeal filled with all sorts of nut butters–I eat this somewhere between 2-3 times a day so it would go fast!
I looooove nut butters melted over a hot bowl of oat bran! But I would love to try my hand at making the babies too!!
Hum, is this the secret recipe of the mysterious picture?
Guess #8
Secret recipe??
This is my second guess (I still think my other one is right) as to today’s mystery picture. We’ll see!
I don’t think this looks quite right, but I’ll make this another guess for the scale entries!
I would use them for a base in a raw pie recipe!
mmm I love coconut! I need to make these babies NOW! And as part of your vita-mix giveaway, I would definitely try my hand at some sort of piña colada ice cream
These macaroon babies are my favorite, though I’ve never been able to make them the “true” way with coconut butter… just a smidge of coconut oil. Anyway, for your Vitamix giveaway – I’d use mine for lots of green monster smoothies. So yummy and very healthy!
Thanks Katie, keep doing what you’re doing!:)
aw…this are soooo delicious, and macaroons have to be like the best name for these…they remind me of the word ‘croon’ which is just an amazing word all by itself. hmmm, so, i’m entering the vitamix giveaway, which i would use to create green juices!!!! and green smoothies!!!! and thanks so much for hosting this giveaway, i love your blog =)
I Love coconut so the macaroons are for me. I can’t wait to try this out for myself…..if I can keep them away from my husband.
Thanks for the opportunity! The first thing I’d make if I won the Vita-Mix would be Heather’s Protein Icecream from the HangryPants blog.
if I won the vitamix I would make carob-almond-spice nut butter, then green smoothies every every day!
I’d love a Vita-Mix to try and make some creative nut butters!
I’m crossing my fingers
raw macaroon babies are my favorite!!! i love coconut
in the vita mix, id absolutely loovveee to make ice cream! seems like it would be so quick and easy!
Darnit! The only ingredient I’m missing to make these babies is the coconut butter. After seeing your carrot cake ones just now I’m like.. gotta have these O_O lol
XO
I’d use the Vita-Mix to make these drool-worthy macaroons!
The raw mounds look so0o0o good! I’d also try using some as a lotion
O0o0h yum, those fudge babies look Divine! I love EVERYTHING coconut!
I will use my new coconut oil to make lots and lots of MOUNDS!!
Can’t wait to try the macaroon babies with the big tub o’ coconut oil that is calling my name. Thanks so much for the suggestion!