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Quick and Easy Homemade Nutella!!

Homemade Nutella on toast with strawberries and powdered sugar on top.

Nutella…roasted hazelnuts, creamy melted chocolate, silky powdered sugar all blended together to create the most amazing, delicious chocolate spread I HAVE EVER HAD. 🙂 

Ingredients

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  • 2 cups of Hazelnuts (see note)
  • 2 tbsp of Avocado Oil
  • 1 cup of Powdered Sugar
  • 3 tbsp of Dutch Process Cocoa Powder
  • 2 tsp of Vanilla Extract
  • 8 oz of Melted Chocolate (see note)
  • 2 pinches of Salt

Instructions

  1. See the note concerning the hazelnuts. If using raw hazelnuts preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and let them roast until they are golden brown. If using pre-roasted and not heating up, skip to next step.
  2. In a microwave safe container, place the chocolate and microwave on 30 second intervals, stirring in-between times until it has melted.
  3. Place the hazelnuts in a food processor and process until smooth and creamy and has a nut butter like consistency.
  4. Slowly drizzle in the avocado oil while processing until throughly combined.
  5. Add in the remaining ingredients- cocoa powder, sugar, salt, vanilla extract, and melted chocolate.
  6. Process until everything is throughly combined and it is creamy with a nut-butter consistency. 
  7. Please note that it will thicken up upon cooling.
  8. Store in an airtight container, on the counter for a few weeks (see note).
  9. Spread on toast, dip in fruit, and more!

Notes

1. Hazelnuts-

  1. You can buy them in the shell, raw. If doing this you will need to shell them, chop them, and roast them in the oven at 350 degrees F until golden brown.
  2. You can buy pre-roasted chopped. This is what I did. However, I roasted them a little extra in the oven. I find that I like them a little more toasted, plus heating them up makes processing them into nut butter a lot quicker and easier.

2. Any kind of chocolate can be used. I prefer the semi-sweet that’s usually used for baking. Milk chocolate is traditionally used for Nutella though. 🙂

3. Please note that you may not want to store it in the refrigerator because it will make it harden and will be impossible to spread.