Most people know me as a coffee writer, but those who have been reading Sprudge long enough know my real passion: nut butter. I’ve been working the butter beat since all the way back in 2017 at the London Coffee Festival, when the overzealous workers at the Lotus booth thought they could keep me from taking handfuls of sample-size Biscoff spread. (They were of course wrong.)
Alas, the pandemic cooled the nut butter enthusiasm sweeping the nation. But here in the latter half of 2025, it’s coming back, baby! This is thanks to a new spreadable collaboration between Big Spoon Roasters and Madcap Coffee, known sweetly as Vanilla Latte Almond Butter.
North Carolina’s Big Spoon are no strangers to a coffee nut butter. In the past they’ve collaborated with specialty roasters like Intelligentsia and Equator Coffees for artisanal espresso butters. But this latest collaboration kicks it up a notch.
The Vanilla Latte Nut Butter starts with a base of heirloom mission almond, maple syrup, coconut oil, Ugandan bourbon vanilla, and Jacobsen sea salt, to which they add Madcap’s Eureka Espresso, their year-round blend of a full-bodied Central or South American coffee and a bright, citrus-forward East African coffee. It’s a well-structured, syrupy espresso, capable of holding up in milk while also shining on its own with notes of black cherry, chocolate, and orange zest.
Per Big Spoon, the Vanilla Latte Nut Butter goes great on toast or as part of a smoothie. My personal preference for all things nut butter is smeared liberally on slices of Pink Lady apples. Unless I’m eating my feelings, in which case just the spoon will do. It would probably make for a pretty good exfoliating scrub as well, but then you couldn’t eat it.
A 13oz jar of Vanilla Latte Nut Butter will run you $16.99, but you can get a mini 3oz jar for $8.00. They are available via the Big Spoon website or their Hillsborough, NC storefront. For more information, visit Big Spoon Roasters’s official website.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Network and nut butter enthusiast based in Dallas. Read more Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
