Make your own Hazelnut Chocolate Spread!!

We just recently got hooked on nutella spread. Its so chocolatey and yummy. But its really expensive!

When you buy Nutella at the store the ingredients on the label are

modified palm oil, 13% hazelnuts,  sugar,  cocoa,  skimmed milk,  soy lecithin,  vanillin,  and  reduced mineral whey

When you make it at home the ingredients are

hazelnuts, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate, and optional honey.

 Nutella is very high in calories, and sugars. So tonight I decided to make my own! And WOW did it turn out good. Here's the recipe along with pictures!

fresh piece of toasted bread! YUM!

Chocolate hazelnut Spread

1/3 cup hazelnuts, with skins on

3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk 

1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips

3 tablespoons honey  (optional)*

 

Toast the Hazelnuts in the oven. When the skins are dark brown take them out and let them cool.

Once cooled put a handful of hazelnuts into a kitchen towel and rub the skins off of the hazelnuts.

I doubled the recipe, that's why there is so many hazelnuts!

Discard the skins

Put the hazelnuts into a food processor and turn it on for 5 minutes. After 2 minutes stop the food processor and scrape the sides of the bowl. The goal is to make the hazelnuts into a paste.

While grinding the hazelnuts, add the chocolate and sweetened condensed milk into a microwave safe bowl. Stick in the microwave for 2 minutes or until the chocolate is melted. Stir the chocolate and sweetened condensed milk together. This is where the honey comes in. Personally It is sweet enough from the Sweetened condensed milk. *Honey really is NOT necessary unless you want it.

Add the chocolate mixture to the hazelnuts and turn the food processor on for 5 minutes.

Stick the mixture into a bowl with a lid and let cool. If it is kept in the fridge it might harden a little more than Nutella does. I keep ours at room temperature. This will last up to a month or so.. if you don't eat it all!!

The finished product!!!