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With this homemade Nutella recipe, you can make your own chocolate hazelnut spread. It’s so delicious!
Nutella is YUMMY, but did you know that you can make your own hazelnut spread? It only takes seven simple ingredients and a few not-too-difficult steps.
This delicious homemade nutella is perfect to spread on bread or pastries, mix into smoothies or add into delicious baked goods – likeas a frosting for these nutella brownies. We love that it’s so versatile!
Once you have made your nutella, we recommend storing it in a glass jar. It will stay fresh and creamy. It’s also a great way to give it to friends and family as a special homemade gift. (I always LOVE getting gifts of homemade food!)
A big shout-out goes to my Mom for passing along this recipe and the photos of her homemade nutella-frosted brownies.
Homemade Nutella Recipe
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cups whole hazelnuts/filberts
12 oz. milk chocolate
2 Tbsp vegetable or canola oil
2 Tbsp confectioners sugar
1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
How to Make Homemade Nutella:
Place 1-1/2 cups of whole nuts on a foil-lined cookie sheet. Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. This will loosen the skins.
Remove them from the oven and wrap in a kitchen towel for about 1/2 hour. The skins will loosen as the nuts cool and then most of the skins can be rubbed off leaving the creamy colored nuts.
When the nuts are cooled, use a food processor to grind them to a fine, smooth paste consistency.
Add the oil, sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla and salt. Continue processing until the mixture is as smooth as possible.
Melt chocolate in a double boiler (If you don’t have a double boiler, place a small saucepan in a larger saucepan filled with water set to boil).
Mix the melted chocolate into the nut mixture. If it seems a little thick and hard to spread, you may add a tablespoon of milk. The nutella will thicken more as it cools.
12 Ways to Use Homemade Nutella:
There are so many delicious ways to use Nutella! Here are just a few:
- Spread it on top of pancakes.
- Use it to make baked nutella doughnuts.
- Cook it into a crepe.
- Top homemade poffertjes.
- Make a sandwich with two pieces of bread.
- Make these Peanut Butter and Nutella Cookies.
- Make an ice cream sundae.
- Dip a banana into it.
- Frost brownies with it (see above).
- Melt it into hot chocolate.
- Spread on slices of pound cake.
- Top a waffle.
Homemade Nutella Hazelnut Spread
Chrysa
With this homemade Nutella recipe, you can make your own chocolate hazelnut spread. It's so delicious!
4.45 from 20 votes
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Prep Time 30 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Total Time 1 hour hr
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 Servings
Calories 85 kcal
Ingredients
- 1-1/2 cups whole hazelnuts/filberts
- 12 oz. milk chocolate
- 2 Tbsp vegetable or canola oil
- 2 Tbsp confectioner’s sugar
- 1 Tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
Place 1-1/2 cups of whole nuts on a foil-lined cookie sheet.
Bake in the oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. This will loosen the skins.
Remove them from the oven and wrap in a kitchen towel for about 1/2 hour.
The skins will loosen as the nuts cool and then most of the skins can be rubbed off leaving the creamy colored nuts.
When the nuts are cooled, use a food processor to grind them to a fine, smooth paste consistency.
Add the oil, sugar, cocoa powder, vanilla and salt.
Continue processing until the mixture is as smooth as possible.
Melt chocolate in a double boiler (If you don’t have a double boiler, place a small saucepan in a larger saucepan filled with water set to boil).
Mix the melted chocolate into the nut mixture. If it seems a little thick and hard to spread, you may add a tablespoon of milk.
The spread will thicken more as it cools.
Nutrition
Serving: 1ozCalories: 85kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 1gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 3gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 3mgSodium: 60mgFiber: 1gSugar: 8g
I am not a nutritionist. These values were calculated automatically with the Spoonacular Food API.
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