Nutella Recipe

I loved Nutella as a kid, yet we didn’t have it often. Then as an adult I saw the ingredients and wondered what the heck that was all about. 

I know that ingredient lists can be quite different between North America and Europe despite the outside of a product looking the same. As a kid I wasn’t too worried about ingredients and so I will never know if I ate all those chemicals, or if it was different in the 80s and 90s in The Netherlands. 

However, why not make it myself? I love baking and cooking and with a blender in the home, the perfect chocolate spread journey started. 

Yet, I tried many recipes and many were too sweet or too weird. I finally decided to adjust some of the recipes I liked most and my result is what I’m sharing here. I cannot really credit 1 original recipe; I have made it my own too much.

In our home we really love dark chocolate and so this recipe really embraces the chocolate flavour instead of the sugary flavour.

I hope you like it!

Rosie’s Nutella

  • 2 cups hazelnuts (not raw)

  • ½ cup cacao powder (fair trade)

  • 1 cup maple syrup

  • 2 tsp vanilla essence 

  • ½ tsp salt 

  • 4 tbsp soft butter or ghee 

  • Splash of milk if needed (once it goes in the fridge it’ll harden a bit and this keeps it smoother) 

Steps:

  1. Blend the hazelnuts into a nut butter. This may take several minutes and several times of stopping to scrape down the nut bits. 

  2. Add in maple syrup and blend together to make it even smoother. 

  3. Add in the rest and blend until desired. 

  4. Put into jars without eating too much already… 

  5. Enjoy! 

I use grass-fed butter so it has the best fats to offset the sugary nature of Nutella. I like Himalayan, sea or Celtic salt best in my cooking and baking. For reasonably priced hazelnuts; in my region Costco is best but bulk sections can work too. Stay away from artificial vanilla if you can. If I had the patience, I’d take the peels off the hazelnuts. Often I don’t….

We often eat ‘peanut butter apple’, where we slice apples up and put a dab of peanut butter on each slice. However we’ve also gotten into ‘apple and Nutella’; same thing but with this chocolate spread on each slice. Another snack idea is Nutella on banana. And of course Nutella on toast with more grass-fed butter is amazing… 

Get creating!