Homemade Almond Nutella

4.67 from 3 votes

Roasted almonds blended with dark chocolate and blended to create the smoothest, most delicious chocolate almond butter.

Prep Time5

Cook Time5

Total Time10

Course: condiment

Cuisine: European

Keyword: homemade nutella

Servings:

Process almonds in a food processor until runny. This will take up to 10 minutes depending on how powerful your machine is.
Add chopped chocolate directly into the bowl of your food processor and process until smooth.
Taste the paste and determine how much honey you want to add. If your almonds are salted add 2-3 tbsp of honey to your taste and vanilla extract. Add a pinch of salt if your almonds are unsalted.
Continue processing to incorporate honey and vanilla into your paste, which will become clumpy at this point.
With the motor of the food processor is still running add melted coconut oil through the shoot. Process a minute or two longer until desired consistency.

This recipe will yield approximately 1 1/4 cup.
Using roasted almonds will give you the best result. They should be easy to buy, but you can also roast your own by placing on a This is an affiliate link.baking sheet and into an oven heated to 180C/350F. They will take 15-20 minutes and should be stirred once or twice.
This homemade Nutella will need a This is an affiliate link.food processor or This is an affiliate link.blender with a powerful motor, or it can burn out trying to bring everything together.
I prefer almonds so used them in my recipe, but roasted hazelnuts can be used instead and will make it taste a little more like authentic Nutella.
This is an affiliate link.Maple syrup can be used as a sweetener instead of honey.
As much as this spread looks like it is made using melted chocolate, it really just needs chunks of chocolate that are blended in a food processor. Dark chocolate, which is less sweet, gets used here. If you want to try it with milk chocolate, you may need to reduce or omit honey.