Homemade Hazelnut Chocolate Spread

A hazelnut chocolate spread made from scratch

This Homemade Hazelnut Chocolate Spread Recipe, Most famously known as Nutella. is easy, simple and can be made in a jiffy. with absolutely simple ingredients thats is off your pantry shelf. With no preservatives at all, this recipe is definitely a keeper. You will never opt for a store bought spread anytime. It is also called the Gianduja.

This Homemade Hazelnut Chocolate Spread is

• Easy and quick
• Made with 5 simple ingredients and no additives. What more... ? Just make your version of hazelnut goodness.
• Totally customizable to your taste and preference.
• Its not a thick paste, but a lovely spread with a good texture and consistency.
• Use it as a dipping sauce, topping sauce, spread on toast and so much more
• Gluten free and Vegan friendly too.

HOW TO MAKE HAZELNUT CHOCOLATE SPREAD from scratch

Before getting into how to make this delicious homemade chocolate nut spread, a quick run through on all what we need

First up the

tools and equipment you need

1. A sheet pan for roasting in the oven or A pan for toasting hazelnuts on the stove top.
2. A good high speed Food processor.
3. spatula
4. a double boiler. or a microwave to melt chocolate.
5. a clean jar.

Next up

The Ingredients -Just 5 simple ones

• Hazelnuts - peeled and toasted lightly, to bring out the nuttiness and the flavour from the nuts.
• Chocolate - in this recipe, you can use any kind of chocolate milk, bitter sweet, semi sweet or dark chocolate. I personally used dark chocolate about 60% of cocoa content. only for taste preference. So that I can alter the sweetness. Always use a good quality of chocolate. That has good cocoa and cocoa butter. and no added additives. Read your label. The best chocolate spread is made with the best chocolate that you can get your hands on.
• Cocoa Powder - some cocoa powder. Pure unsweetened or dutch processed cocoa powder. Using Cocoa Powder, gives in a rich chocolate depth to the chocolate hazelnut spread.
• Sugar - Just plain white sugar powdered. You will first powder and then measure. No substitutes here, but you may use brown sugar, which will give you a slight caramel taste.
• Oil - Any oil to help in the emulsion of the chocolate and nuts. this is totally optional. But using this will give a smooth spread. You can use coconut, canola, sunflower or any vegetable oil.

Make it Vegan

Swap the chocolate bar to a vegan chocolate or pure 100% chocolate bar that is just pure chocolate bar. In other words it is also called the unsweetened chocolate bar. TO this you will need to alter the amount of sugar in the recipe. In this recipe for vegan and if using a 100% pure chocolate bar - use upto ¾ to 1 cup of sugar.

Altering the Sweetness

and tweaking your taste

While using milk chocolate use less of sugar.

While using dark chocolate use more of sugar. increase the sugar quantity by atleast about ¼ cup.

In a nutshell, you can increase or decrease the sugar in the recipe for a more sweeter or a less sweeter Hazelnut spread.

Here is how you make it from scratch

Storage & Shelf Life

To Store the hazelnut chocolate spread

Storing this spread doesnt require an elaborate canning process, but a little care to store this, will help the hazelnut stay fresh for a long time

So first

Take a clean jar and the lid, and soak it in a pot of hot water. Let it sit for atleast 10 mins.

Take it out. wipe it clean with a dry cotton cloth and let completely dry. So there are drops of water.

Once dried, transfer the hazelnut chocolate spread

Dessert Topping and other Ideas

Its not that we do not know where to use, but just in case you need some help

here you go

• Spread it on a toast top it with some berries, whipped cream for a happy breakfast
• Drizzle on a hot waffle, may be some berries or just plain. you are in for a good snack or breakfast.
• Top it on pancakes, spread on crepes.
• Make Hazelnut waffles sundae - a thick waffle bed top it up with a scoop of vanilla bean or chocolate ice cream and pour some hazelnut chocolate spread and some toasted hazelnuts on top.
• Use it as a cake or a cupcake filling. Just smear a thin layer of gianduja on the cake layer. or fill it up inside a cupcake.
• Drizzle this hazelnut chocolate spread on a nice thick chewy brownies Take it a notch higher by making it a sundae. a scoop of icecream
• Put a spoon of gianduja in a glass of hot milk, you have a hazelnut chocolate flavoured milk.

And I can just go on and on... !! This chocolate spread is just so versatile that you can pair it with almost anything and make an amazing dessert.

Let me know how did you pair this chocolate spread ? Would love to know

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