Healthy Homemade Nutella
Homemade Nutella is so simple to make! It’s rich, full of chocolate flavor and can actually be considered healthy when made at home with real, wholesome ingredients. This version actually contains tons of hazelnut flavor and absolutely no refined sugars. Make it in under 20 minutes!
Homemade Paleo Nutella
Can I get a huge yes for homemade Nutella? This spreadable goodness is essentially a chocolate nut butter. Hazelnuts are a good source of healthy fats and are rich in vitamin E, calcium and magnesium. They’re already delicious on their own, but when paired up with chocolate they’re downright dangerous.
The store-bought chocolate hazelnut spread may be tasty, but honestly it’s so laden with sugar that it hardly retains any health benefits at all. Why bother when you can easily make your own at home with just a few simple ingredients?
Ingredients Needed
- Raw Hazelnuts
- Dark Chocolate + Cocoa Powder
- Coconut Sugar
- Coconut Oil
- Vanilla Extract
- Sea Salt
How to Make It
- Start by toasting the hazelnuts! This not only improves the flavor of the hazelnuts, but it also makes it easier to rub off the skin if your raw hazelnuts have them. Just make sure to watch the nuts closely so they don’t burn. To remove the skin, place them inside of a clean kitchen towel and rubbing vigorously until most of the skin has come off. Some skin left behind isn’t a big deal, so don’t stress about getting every tiny piece off.
- Meanwhile, melt the chocolate over a double-boiler or on slowly on low-power in the microwave. Set aside to cool.
- Transfer hazelnuts to a food processor and process until a hazelnut butter forms, about 5-7 minutes, scraping down the sides every few minutes. During this stage you might feel like it’ll never come together, but it will! Keep going!
- Once you have a smooth nut butter, add in the coconut sugar, cocoa powder, coconut oil and vanilla and process until smooth, about 3 minutes more.
- Then add cooled chocolate and blend until smooth and creamy.
Troubleshooting
After you’ve added the coconut sugar and cocoa powder to the nut butter, if your mixture seizes up, add in a couple of tablespoons of warm water until the mixture is smooth and creamy again. Make sure it is smooth before adding in the melted chocolate or you will have trouble getting the mixture to come back to smooth.
How to Store Homemade Nutella
We recommend storing this in the refrigerator. There are no preservatives in this, and a very conservative amount of sugar so unlike store-bought Nutella, it’s best to store this in the refrigerator and use up within 7-10 days. You can bring it to room temperature if you’d like to before using.
How to Use Homemade Nutella
- On Banana Bread
- On Toast
- Fresh Fruit
- Pancakes
- Waffles
- French Toast Sticks
- OR GRAB A SPOON!
If you like this healthy chocolate recipe, check out these others:
- 2-Ingredient Paleo Chocolate Frosting
- Paleo Chocolate Truffles
- Avocado Brownies
- Dark Chocolate Almond Butter Cups
Homemade Nutella
Homemade Nutella is so simple to make! It's rich, full of chocolate flavor and can actually be considered healthy when made at home with real, wholesome ingredients. This version actually contains tons of hazelnut flavor and absolutely no refined sugars. Make it in under 20 minutes!
Ingredients
- 2 cups raw hazelnuts
- 1 cup good-quality dark chocolate
- ⅓ cup coconut sugar
- 2 tablespoons good-quality cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil
- Pinch fine sea salt
Directions
- Preheat oven to 400ºF.
- Spread hazelnuts on a baking sheet in a single layer and bake for 10 minutes, watching closely to avoid the hazelnuts burning. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
- Meanwhile, melt the chocolate over a double-boiler or on slowly on low-power in the microwave. Set aside to cool.
- Once the hazelnuts are cooled, remove the skins on the nuts by placing them inside of a clean kitchen towel and rubbing vigorously until most of the skin has come off. (If your nuts are already skinless, obviously skip this step!)
- Transfer hazelnuts to a food processor and process until a paste forms, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add in the coconut sugar, cocoa powder, coconut oil and vanilla and process until smooth, about 3 minutes more. (See note for troubleshooting)
- Add cooled chocolate and blend until smooth and creamy.
- Store in an air-tight container for up to 2 weeks, or the refrigerator, if desired.
Recipe Notes
- If you chocolate mixture starts to seize up, or becomes very dry looking, add in a couple of tablespoons of warm water with the food processor running. It should be completely smooth before adding in the melted chocolate.
- If your hazelnuts do not have a the skin on them, you can still toast them to improve the flavor!
- We recommend storing this in the refrigerator. There are no preservatives in this, and a very conservative amount of sugar so unlike store-bought Nutella, it's best to store this in the refrigerator and use up within 7-10 days. You can bring it to room temperature if you'd like to before using.
- Recipe and photos updated in 2020.
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42 Responses
Homemade Nutella….what an awesome idea! I love Nutella and I put it on everything! Can’t wait to try your homemade version! 🙂
The store-bought variety has dairy in it which is something we avoid so this homemade version looks perfect. Can’t wait to try it!
Wow, it never occurred to me how easy it would be to make my own. Thanks for posting these directions 🙂
Love! Where can I purchase those jars?
Love! Where can I purchase those wonderful jars?
Looks absolutely amazing, Lexi! Add me as another that is curious where you found the awesome jars.
I totally need to make this – we are all Nutella addicts here. And I agree with evryone else… I love those jars!
Yup! Thinking I need to make this pronto… I could totally sit back and scarf this down while watching a movie or put it on toast the next morning. Love the recipe and pics Lexi!
I love nutella. Such a grown up ‘nut butter’! Love the gif 😉
Hello, just had to comment that I think your Nutella looks divine! Well done!
What are the nutritional values?
I woke up this morning dreaming about Nutella. I will be sharing this post on my Fan page tomorrow at 4:00pm. -Sharing Life’s Abundance
I have just made this but as I couldn’t find hazelnuts, went with almonds! Wow! It’s amazing! Tastes incredible… Even my teenage Nutella addict son loves it!
Try it! Thanks for the recipe!
We’re gfcfef and I’ve been missing nutella horribly these last 5 years – THANK YOU!
The jars are preserve jars from Bonne Maman. http://www.bonnemaman.us/about/
Is there an alternative for the coconut oil? Not a fan of anything coconut unfortunately.
Hazelnut oil? For a more authentic Nutella experience. That’s what I’m planning to use anyway as I don’t like coconut oil much.
You could also substitute the sugar and honey with dates.
I’m not sure how this would work with date Jacqueline.
You can buy date butter or just make it yourself. I have tried it and I was amaized. I got the sweetness that I wanted. Instead of coconut palm sugar I substitute it with carob powder. My son loves my homemade Hazelnut spread! 🙂
Just made a half a batch, made my husband who is a Nutella conoisseur try it and he likes it
=)
and this is the kind of Nutella I won’t mind my kid eating spoonfulls of.
I used butter instead of coconut oil and cane sugar instead of coconut palm sugar, but it still tasted terrific.
Great recipe!
I’m so happy to see you’re using coconut palm sugar! What I love most about your recipe is that you didn’t overly sweeten it.
What kind of chocolate chips did you use?
Enjoy Life’s Chocolate Chips. Any will work!
Lexi this looks incredible!! Do you think you could substitute cacoa powder for the cocoa powder?
So glad I found your fabulous site!
I haven’t tried it but I don’t see why not 🙂
Would love to make this for my son. Nutella is his favourite. I hope he doesn’t finish it in one day.
Haay!
Can you give us an idea of approx. how much nutella (volume) comes out of this recipe? We’re planning on giving homemade nutella jars to some friends for Christmas and need to calculate how many hazelnuts to buy 🙂
Thanks!
Making this now. Will update when it is done.
OMG! Amazing! And now, excuse me, I am going to make some Nutella! Yumm!!!!
This was amazing! However, I think that using coconut oil makes it harden and I would prefer it to stay creamy. Perhaps using hazelnut or walnut oil instead of coconut would help?
This looks amazing and perfect for my Nutella obsessed kids. How long will a jar of this last?
This looks amazing! Have you figured out the nutritional information ( such as calories) ?
HI this tastes great but I couldnt get mine to be smooth and melted like in the pictures, it looks like dough? what did i do wrong? 🙁
Add more oil and process longer.
I had no idea I can make Nutella at home. 🙂
I tried it this morning and it was delicious.
Thanks again Lexi, you are such and inspiration!
Amazing! I can’t wait to give it a try.
Thanks for sharing.
Looks yummy. really can’t wait to give it a try.:)
Hi Lexi, did you change this recipe? I could swear it also had honey and ¼ cup of sugar. I’ve been making it for years so I don’t check the recipe anymore but I’m pretty positive I am using your recipe. I love it. Thank you for sharing it 🙂
We did update the recipe! If you need the old one feel free to e-mail me at kelli@lexiscleankitchen.com and I can give it to you–but we felt this one was a bit more streamlined!
Is it possible to substitute raw cacao powder for the cocoa? I haven’t tried thus yet but wish to make it as clean and healthy as possible.
You can try!