Course: Condiments, Dessert, Picnic, School Lunches, Snack
Cuisine: Italian
Servings: 39x 15g tablespoons
Calories: 66kcal
Author: Thrifty Lesley
Cost: 44p per 100g
Equipment
food processor
or
stick blender
mixing bowl
small silicone spatula
Ingredients
Home Made Nutella
50gmilk powder
50gcocoa powder
150ghazelnuts
100gicing sugar
100grapeseed oil
140mlcold water
Instructions
Home Made Nutella
The first, and most fiddly, part of the process is to toast and deskin your hazelnuts. Put the nuts on a suitable container and toast under the grill or in the oven until roasted. Watch them closely, they’ll burn easily.
150 g hazelnuts
Leave until cool, then rub in a clean tea towel to remove the skins. I got fed up halfway through the deskinning and threw the half skinned nuts all in the processor, it didn’t seem to make any difference!Or do what I've done on subsequent times of making this recipe and use chopped hazelnuts, so no de-skinning at all, and don't bother with the toasting!
Put the hazelnuts in a food processor and whizz until a very fine powder or paste. You really do need a food processor for this.
Add the oil, cocoa, milk powder, sugar and water and whizz again for a couple of minutes.
50 g milk powder, 100 g icing sugar, 100 g rapeseed oil, 140 ml cold water, 50 g cocoa powder
Taste. Add more cocoa if you want it stronger. Add more sugar if you really want it.
Store your delicious hazelnut and chocolate spread in the fridge, but you may need to let it come to room temperature before using if it thickens up too much
If you don't think you will use it very quickly, pop it in the freezer. It will keep well in the fridge because of the sugar in it acting as a preservative
Notes
to make a milder version, more like milk chocolate, increase the milk powder. Add 10g at a time until it is as you'd like it. You may need to add a tablespoon or 2 more of water
or decrease the amount of cocoa. Or mixture of decreased cocoa and increased milk powder
coconut oil could be used instead of the vegetable oil
I like to use rapeseed oil as it is a good source of Omega 3, but any neutral vegetable or seed oil could be used
change the nuts to walnuts, peanuts, macadamia nuts, Brazil nuts or almonds
leave out the nuts altogether to get a nut free version