homemade nutella
If you love nutella as much as I do, this recipe is for you!! I won’t pretend that this homemade nutella tastes exactly like the real stuff. It doesn’t, but it’s very good nonetheless. When you mix chocolate and hazelnuts together, it’s very hard not to get a delicious treat. Unlike real nutella, this homemade version is made with good ingredients. It’s not chalked full of sugar and other inflammatory ingredients. In fact, it’s refined sugar free!
What I used:
Hazelnuts: Trader Joe’s Raw Oregon Hazelnuts
Cacao: Volupta’s Organic, Fair Trade Cacao Powder
Coconut Sugar: Better Body Food’s Organic Coconut Palm Sugar
Vanilla Extract: Simply Organic’s Pure Vanilla Extract
Salt: Redmond’s Real Salt
Tips for making homemade nutella:
If you are using roasted hazelnuts, skip the first four steps of this recipe. Remember: when buying roasted nuts, there should never be any type of oil listed in the ingredients. Nuts have natural oils, so they don’t need any additional oil in the roasting process. Many time when oil is listed in the ingredients, that means they were actually quickly deep fried instead of roasted.
When roasting your hazelnuts, be careful not to burn them. Burnt hazelnuts will make your nutella taste bitter.
Removing the skin of the roasted hazelnuts is not essential, but highly recommended. Removing the skin helps you get a smoother nut butter.
You can replace cacao with cocoa.
You can use a high speed blender (like a Vitamix) instead of a food processor to make your nut butter.
Make sure to stop and scrap the sides of your food processor or blender. This will help to make sure you get an even texture.
Your nutella with thicken as it cools.
nourish your body.
Homemade Nutella
Prep time: 5 minutes Bake time: 10 minutes Processing time: 10 minutes Total time: 25 minutes
ingredients:
1 cup raw hazelnuts
1/4 cup cacao powder
1/4 cup coconut sugar
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/4 tsp salt
directions:
Preheat your oven to 350ºF and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
Place your raw hazelnuts on the baking sheet and roast them for 8-10 minutes.
Let the roasted hazelnuts cool enough to touch.
Carefully place them on a kitchen towel and gently rub the hazelnuts to remove the skin.
Add the roasted hazelnuts (without the skin), cacao powder, coconut sugar, vanilla extract, and salt to a food processor.
Process until you have a smooth paste. Stop and scrap the sides as needed.
Enjoy :)
