Homemade Nutella.

*cheesy cooking show music plays* And now welcome to the Artist's pantry! Where you get tasty recipes and good show to watch!....No? Don't like the music?We'll try something different. Anywhoalls, I have a new recipe I tried out for you all! Which I just loved and super proud of! But in all reality probably not worth the trouble to make when you can buy it already made at the store. But! mine has Agave nectar instead of sugar and tastes fresher! NUTELLA! Ah. The sweet treat to add to your toast for a great breakfast! Or to munch on with your pretzels sticks. For those who don't know nutella is a hazelnut spread. i went online to search for a recipe and came across many. So like I normally do i take a couple and come up with my own.

1 cup of Hazelnuts- Okay so these nuts are harder to find than any other nut. They are not wal-mart! Or at least at my wal-mart, so I went to my trusty Shnucks, which has the little Diamond 1/2 cups bags. I got 2.

6 Tablespoons of Agave Nectar
1 Tablespoon of Olive oil. -If you have hazelnut oil then this works better, but olive oil works just fine.
1/4 cup of cocoa powder.- Now if you are me, you don't have any normal cocoa powder, you have Special Dark Dutch Processed Cocoa, which tastes really good whenever cocoa powder needed.

1 Tablespoon of vanilla

Okidokie. Now have food grinder and grind up all your pretty already chopped up hazelnuts. If you don't have already chopped hazelnuts, then you will have to follow this step. If you do, skip this step highlights in blue.

For whole hazel nuts, bake in oven at 350* for 8-10 minutes. Then take out of oven, cool slightly before placing on a paper towel. With the paper towel remove a much of the nuts skin as you can.

Grind up your hazelnuts in the food processor, ( a great blender works fine too) until nuts look like pastes or creamed butter.

Scrapes the edges to put back in center then add the rest of the ingredients and blend away!

Nutella should begin to smell nice and tasty. If your nutella comes out a little thick either add a little of agave or oil, but not to much oil cause it wont taste as good.

Mine looks dark cause of the dark chocolate cocoa, but still tastes great!
Enjoy and post your comments if you like the recipe!

Recipes makes about a normal sized jar of regular Nutella.


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