The Best Homemade Healthy Nutella Recipe
This heavenly homemade healthy Nutella recipe, with only six ingredients, is creamy, chocolaty, delicious, and decadent. You can make this easy recipe with your high-speed blender and microwave. Serve with good bread, spoon over ice cream, or spread on crepes or pancakes for breakfast.
This healthy homemade Nutella recipe is gluten-free and vegan! It only requires a handful of ingredients and is simple to make. It’s very popular, and for good reason! If you love chocolate desserts, you might also enjoy our Fudgy Gluten-Free Chocolate Brownie Recipe.
What you’ll love about this recipe:
Simple Ingredients
You’ll need the following simple ingredients to make this heavenly Homemade Healthy Nutella Recipe
- Raw Hazelnuts
- Cocoa Powder
- Brown Sugar
- Coconut Cream
- Maple Syrup
- 5 Squares Dark Chocolate or Milk Chocolate
Ingredient Notes
- This recipe can be made with dark chocolate or milk chocolate.
- You can use honey instead of maple syrup.
- Use any sugar of choice, including date sugar or granulated sugar
How To Make Homemade Healthy Nutella Recipe- Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1. Preheat the Oven to 325 F. and Roast the Hazelnuts on a parchment-lined baking sheet for 10-15 minutes until fragrant. The roasting softens the hazelnuts and helps release their natural oils. You can remove the skins with a clean kitchen towel. Put the hazelnut in the center of the towel, and the skins will fall right off!
Step 2. In a high-speed blender or food processor, blend hazelnuts until entirely smooth; add brown sugar, coconut cream, and maple syrup, and pulse for one minute.
Step 3. Add brown sugar, coconut cream, and maple syrup to the ground hazelnuts and pulse for one minute.
Step 4. Melt milk chocolate in a microwave for up to 30 seconds. Once melted, add the chocolate to a high-speed blender or food processor with the cocoa powder hazelnut mixture. Blend the chocolate mixture until thoroughly combined and creamy. Transfer the mixture to an airtight container.
Recipe Tricks & Serving Tips
- Buy raw hazelnuts for best results. Many health food stores offer hazelnuts, and they are readily available online.
- You can use maple syrup, honey, or date syrup for this recipe.
- Homemade Nutella is delicious on Crepes – my favorite!
- Spread Chocolate Spread on a cake layer or on pancakes.
- Add a tablespoon to a Smoothie-yum!
Storage Tips
Store the Homemade Nutella Recipe in an airtight container for up to 4 weeks or in the refrigerator for eight weeks.
Additions and Substitutions
- You can use almost any sweetener in this Hazelnut Chocolate Spread. White sugar can replace brown sugar, and honey can replace the maple syrup.
- If you can’t find hazelnuts, you can make this recipe with almonds, although the taste will differ.
FAQ’s For This Healthy Nutella Recipe
If you check the Nutella Website, it says the original recipe was created around World War 2. Chocolate was hard to come by, so this recipe stretched cocoa further and began this imaginative treat.
You can store your homemade Nutella in an airtight container, unrefrigerated, for up to 4 weeks or in the refrigerator for up to 2 months. It will harden in the refrigerator.
This witty article from the Irish Times says it all – serve Nutella Recipe on good bread, in ice cream, or straight from the jar. It’s hard to resist this ganache-like creation, which is also delicious on crepes and pancakes.
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The Best Homemade Healthy Nutella Recipe
This heavenly homemade healthy Nutella recipe, with only six ingredients, is creamy, chocolaty, delicious, and decadent. You can make this easy recipe at home with your high-speed blender and microwave. Serve with good bread or spread on crepes or pancakes for breakfast. It’s an excellent addition to your holiday breakfast buffet!
- Prep Time: 10 Minutes
- Cook Time: 15 Minutes
- Total Time: 25-30 Minutes
- Yield: 1 and 1/2 cups 1x
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Blender
- Cuisine: American
- Diet: Gluten Free
Ingredients
You will need the following ingredients to make this amazing Homemade Chocolate Spread.
1 cup blanched, roasted hazelnuts
1/3 cup cocoa powder
2 tbsp brown sugar
1/3 cup coconut cream
2 tbsp maple syrup
5 squares of dark chocolate or milk chocolate
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 325F and roast hazelnuts on a Baking Pan for 10-15 minutes. It helps soften them and release the natural oils.
2. In a high-speed blender or food processor, blend hazelnuts until smooth. Once smooth, add brown sugar, coconut cream, and maple syrup, and pulse for one minute.
3. Melt milk chocolate in a microwave. Heat for up to 30 seconds. Once the chocolate is melted, add the melted chocolate to a high-speed blender or food processor with the Hazelnut Cocoa Mixture. Blend the Nutella homemade chocolate mixture until it has a creamy consistency. Transfer the mixture to an airtight container.
Helpful Tip – Start pulsing the mixture before setting the high-speed blender on high.
Notes
Store in an airtight glass container on the counter for up to 30 days and in the refrigerator for up to 2 months. It will harden in the refrigerator.
