I also had no idea you could use a food processor to turn nuts into butter. The thought had never even crossed my mind, but you know what? It’s really pretty easy!
I probably don’t need as many pictures as I’ve added to this post, but looking through them again my mouth is watering. (Mmmmmmm…. Nutella!) So I thought you might enjoy seeing them too.
Homemade Nutella Recipe
This recipe is based on a recipe at The Eccentric Cook:
200g of hazelnuts (skins removed would be easier) 300mL can of condensed milk 250g of dark chocolate (The chocolate chips were really sweet, so I would recommend even darker chocolate) 1/4 cup of hot milk
First roast the hazelnuts either in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 350F or in a dry pan over low-medium heat for 10-15 minutes.
Pour them onto a plate (or something) to cool:
Since my hazelnuts had skins I tried to remove as many as I could just with my fingers (they come off pretty easily). Then I read somewhere that you can put them on a tea towel and roll them around and that gets the skins off too.
Put them in a food processor:
When you first turn the processor on they’ll be chopped like this:
But after about 5 to 10 minutes they’ll start to turn to butter and get more of a liquid consistency:
I couldn’t get the consistency completely smooth, but it was still pretty decent (I was also lazy and didn’t bother to use a spatula to scrape the edges):
Melt the chocolate over low heat:
Add the condensed milk:
Stir with the heat still on low:
Add the hazelnut butter:
Add the warm/hot milk:
Stir it up and it will look like this:
It made about 3 medium jars full. It was REALLY hard not to eat all of it!
I couldn’t get mine quite as smooth as real Nutella, but it definitely has the same flavour:
It was really sweet, so I think next time I’ll try using chocolate with less sugar.
This was definitely a treat! I’ve been eating spoonfuls all afternoon!
