Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Recipe
Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Recipe
Author: Cynthia Lee
Nutrition Information
- Serves: 2
- Calories: 90
- Fat: 5.5 g
- Saturated fat: 1 g
- Carbohydrates: 9 g
- Sugar: 9 g
- Sodium: 2 mg
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 0.5 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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If you are a chocoholic, then you are bound to have a weakness for hazelnut chocolate spread. Many of us are familiar with nutella, the chocolate hazelnut spread that we can’t get enough of. This recipe gives you a chance to make your nutella at home, to enjoy with warm French baguettes or just lick off the spoon.
Ingredients
- Raw hazelnuts - 2 cup, whole
- Powdered sugar - 1 cup
- Unsweetened cocoa powder - ¼ cup
- Vegetable or nut oil - up to ¼ cup
- Vanilla extract - ½ tsp
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- Take a shallow baking pan and put the hazelnuts on it in a single layer.
- Toast them in the oven for 15 minutes until the skin turns black.
- To make sure that they are baking evenly, give the nuts a stir half way.
- Take them out of the oven and let them cool.
- Wrap them in a towel and rub the nuts so that the skin comes off.
- It is alright if some of the skin still remains on the nuts.
- Put the nuts in a food processor and process them for about 5 minutes, so that they are reduced to a paste.
- They will be coarsely chopped at first and then will become a fine meal.
- After this, the nuts will turn into a mass and will stick to the blade.
- Keep processing them as the heat will cause the natural oils to be extracted and hazelnut butter will be formed.
- After the nut mixture becomes liquefied, add cocoa, sugar and vanilla to it.
- Add oil to it too, a little at a time so that it becomes thin and is spreadable.
- Keep in mind that the mixture is more fluid now as it is warm; it will solidify a little at room temperature.
- Transfer the chocolate hazelnut spread to an air tight container.
- The spread can be stored in the fridge and can be used for a maximum of two months.
- To give it a fresh effect, stir the spread each time before you use it.
