Peanut butter is produced from peanuts, while the raw material for cashew butter is cashews. Cashew butter can actually be made from raw or roasted cashews, while peanut butter, on the other hand, is always made from dry and roasted ground peanuts. The texture of cashew butter is rich, very creamy, and also buttery.
Peanut butter is available in both the smooth and the crunchy varieties. While storing Cashew butter, the oils and solids inside of the cashew butter usually separate, but while storing peanut butter, the oil and the solid tends to remain in the same state as when the peanut butter was prepared and bottled.
Hydrogenated vegetable oils are used in preparing peanut butter, but cashew butter is prepared by the use of a variety of oils. Peanut butter has high levels of monounsaturated fats, on the contrary, cashew butter has high levels of unsaturated fat content.