Homemade Nutella Recipe
A delicious recipe for homemade Nutella that is healthier than the processed version.
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Heat oven to 350º. Place hazelnuts on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes. Place roasted nuts in a martini shaker (or a mason jar) in batches and shake away. After a few minutes, open the shaker. Separate the nuts from their peels and keep going until all the papery skins are eliminated.
  2. In a food processor, blitz the nuts. Trust your machine. It will seize up and look like it needs oil, but it doesn’t. This always happens when making nut butters. Just keep at it, scraping down the sides as needed, until you get a smooth consistency.
  3. Add the powdered sugar, cocoa, vanilla and salt. Blitz until well-blended. Taste it. Right now it should taste nice and chocolaty. If that’s what you want, add the coconut oil. If you want to highlight the hazelnut flavor, add hazelnut oil.
Recipe Notes

To Serve and Store Your Homemade Nutella

Spread on toast, biscotti, crepes, ice-cream, or just spoon it into your mouth.

If you plan on keeping it around for a long time, store it in the fridge to prevent the nuts from going rancid. Honestly, if it will be gone in a week, you can keep it at room temperature for ease of spreading. This recipe doesn’t have milk or another easily spoiled ingredient that requires chilling.

Rebecca Cofiño for Mamaguru.