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Homemade Nutella

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If you’re like me and have to restrain yourself from picking up a jar of Nutella every time you do a grocery shop, you’ll love this recipe. You’ll have a love-hate relationship with it really. Yes, it’s wicked. Best of all this recipe is ridiculously easy! Just as a note – I used my KitchenAid Blender to process the hazelnuts into Hazelnut butter – it worked wonders!

 

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Homemade Nutella Recipe

Homemade Nutella

  • Author: Caroline Hastings-Brown
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There’s only one thing better than picking up a jar of Nutella from the store – and that’s making it yourself! Super easy too!

Ingredients

  • 200g Hazelnuts (skin off)
  • 1 can condensed milk
  • 250g chocolate (cooking chocolate) – dark chocolate is best
  • ½ cup hot milk

 

Instructions

  1. In a dry pan (no oil), heat the hazelnuts until they start browning nicely – keep moving them around and be careful not to burn them!
  2. Take them out the pan and place on a plate and allow them to cool.
  3. Once they’ve cooled down, place the nuts in a food processor or blender and process until they look like peanut butter (see pic below). This may take up to 15 minutes (or longer) depending on how powerful your machine is.
  4. Melt the chocolate either over the stove with a double boiler or you can use the microwave like I did – place the chocolate in a microwaveable bowl and heat for 1 minute (on medium-high) and stir well and then another minute and stir well until the chocolate is melted.
  5. Once the chocolate has melted, stir in the condensed milk.
  6. Now add the above mixture to the hazelnut butter and process for a minute or two.
  7. At this point you may notice that the mixture becomes quite thick and dense. Add ½ cup of hot milk if you want to thin it out a bit (I added the milk and it made the consistency just right).
  8. Pour into jars – this is enough for two medium jars.

 

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  1. Pascale

    Your recepie looks yummy I’m gonna try this! How log does it last on the shelf? Do u refrigerator yours?

    • Louise

      Hi Pascale, you can refridgerate yours but I kept mine at room temperature and it lasted about 10 days. I wouldn’t keep it longer than that as there are no preservatives added to this.

  2. Yasra Adeel

    In step 6 it says ‘process’ the mixture for a minute. What do u mean by process ?? Cook? Mix it with a spoon? Mix it in a blender?
    I am confused. Would appreciate the help.
    Much thanks ?

    • Louise

      Hi Yasra, when I say process I’m talking about processing it in a food processor like a Kitchen Aid or MagiMixer or any other kitchen blender that has a blade attachment that could mix the ingredients together. Does that help?