Did you know you can make your own, delicious, indulgent, and crave-worthy homemade Nutella From Scratch? It's surprisingly easy to make with raw hazelnuts and chocolate and it's incredibly delicious and just like the classic we all know and love!
Hands down one of the most amazing and dangerous things we've learned to make from scratch over the years is this creamy, dreamy, rich, and incredibly delicious, Nutella From Scratch! Seriously, it is so SO GOOD. And, it's so SO easy and can be made in mere minutes. Which makes it eat-it-by-the-spoonful, put-it-on-every-thing, kind of dangerous, which just happens to be my favorite kind.
Ingredients Needed
The ingredients that you need are all pretty common, the two big necessary ingredients, the backbone of a homemade Nutella: hazelnuts and chocolate.
- Roasted Hazelnuts - You can find these in the bulk section of a grocery store. You could get straight raw hazelnuts and roast them yourself, but we prefer to buy them roasted and skins removed already.
- Chocolate Chips - You can you use any brand or kind that you would like - just make sure it's something that'll melt nicely. I personally like milk chocolate chips, but you can also use semi-sweet and even better, you can make this homemade Nutella vegan by using vegan chocolate chips!
- Cacao Powder - Now you know it wouldn't be a SFS recipe if we didn't "sneak" a superfood in! You could also use cocoa, but we prefer the added magnesium, antioxidants, calcium, and zinc you get from cacao!
- Vanilla Extract - Have you made your own yet?
- Confectioner's Sugar - Just a touch of added sweetness.
- Oil - Vegetable Oil or another neutral-flavored oil like canola.
- Kosher Salt - Just a pinch!
Step-by-Step Instructions
Step 1: Grind your hazelnuts into almost a paste.
You can do this in a food processor, blender, or our absolute favorite, Vitamix.
Step 2: Add the cacao, vanilla, confectioner's sugar, salt, and oil and blend until it's well blended. You may need to scrape the sides down with a spatula a few times, too.
It may still be a little chunky, which is ok. You'll continue to blend it with the chocolate and with that blend it'll become much smoother.
Step 3: Melt your chocolate.
How to Melt Chocolate
You can melt the chocolate a few ways.
- Double Boiler, aka Stove Top Method. This is when you either use an actual double boiler, or you can create your own by putting a metal bowl over a pot of boiling water. Just be sure that your metal bowl doesn't touch the water.
- Microwave. Add chocolate to a microwave-safe bowl and melt for 60 seconds at 70% powder. Remove, mix, and then microwave for 30 seconds and remove from microwave and mix and repeat until chocolate is well melted.
Either method is fine for this recipe, but we always prefer the double boiler method.
TIP: Be careful to not overheat or seize your chocolate! If this happens, it means that your chocolate will quite literally become stiff, grainy, and clumpy, rendering it absolutely useless. Even if you think that you're putting it into your super powerful Vitamix so it'll be fine, no, no it will not be. Once your chocolate has seized, it's done for this recipe, sorry. While there are some things you can do to fix seized chocolate, they wont work for this recipe.
Step 4: Add that gorgeous melted chocolate to your hazelnut mixture and give it all a good final blend until it is creamy dreamy.
Step 5: Pour that (loose) homemade Nutella into your jar.
It will definitely be loose, and it will still be a little warm. But while it cools, it will thicken, don't worry. It will become that thick creamy Nutella that you know and love! But trust me, it will also be hard to wait - it smells and tastes like chocolatey hazelnutty heaven. And trust me, I know what that is. I lived just outside of Alba, Italy for a month (of my 5) and the Nutella factory is in Alba. When we used to go to the markets in Alba, the whole city smelled like Nutella - that, my friends, is heaven.
Once cooled for about an hour or two, it will have that thick creamy texture for an amazing Nutella From Scratch!
If the texture is like Nutella...
...and the taste is like Nutella...
...then it MUST be a homemade Nutella From Scratch!
Let me give you a wide angle shot of that and a real look into my world - my almost 3 year old only being placated by being able to hold the spoon of Nutella to prevent her from just shoving her hands into the deliciousness.
Homemade, made from scratch Nutella, friends.
Trust me, if you're looking for a fun, EASY, but show stopping dessert or from scratch creation to make, this is it!
Just wait and see what we make with it!
Enjoy! As always, if you make this recipe or any of my others, I love to hear what you think! Leave a comment below, email me, or you can find me on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest!
Nutella from Scratch
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup hazelnuts or about 5 oz
- 12 ounces chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon confectioners’ sugar
- 1 tablespoon cacao powder
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Prep a double boiler to melt chocolate, by adding a pot of water to the stove and heat over high to boil and add a stainless steel bowl over the pot and add the chocolate.
- Meanwhile, in a Vitamix, food processor, or blender, grind the hazelnuts into a paste. You may have to scrape down the edges to fully blend.
- Add oil, sugar, cacao, salt, and vanilla and continue to blend. Again, you may need to scrape down the edges to ensure it all blends well.
- While the water boils, let the chocolate melt and stir constantly - ensuring that it doesn't burn or overhead which will result in it seizing. Stir until it is smooth.
- Add the melted chocolate to the hazelnut mixture and blend again until smooth.
- Pour the homemade Nutella into a jar or other resealable container and let it cool and thicken. Or use immediately if desired.
- Enjoy!
Just don't use canola oil! It is not good for your health. Avocado oil is much better or sunflower one if you don't hear it..
I've never bought nutella because I 'm not a fan of all the sugar and other stuff in it. But this recipe looks really easy and really delicious. I'm going to make this so I don't have to miss out on all the nutella recipes out there. Thank you!
Exactly! Enjoy!
I have this crazy machine that makes nut milk and butters and I have been dying to try to make Nutella - this recipe is perfect - thank you!
Ooooh I am SO jealous!!! That sounds amazing!
Definitely avoid canola and vegetable oil. It's not good for you. A good substitute is avocado oil. You can also use grapeseed oil as long as it's not heated.
That would be torture making this during Lent!! I love nutella and I can't wait to make my own - and I do so wish I could visit that town in Italy.
Total torture! I learned my lesson, for sure!
No way could I have made that when I had given up sweets. I am drooling through the screen!
you are living up to your "from scratch" name with this one! chocolate chips from scratch, and nutella homemade. nicely done!
Thanks, David!
I love Nutella! Pinning this for later!
looks great!
Thank you! 😀
Oh. Em. Gee! This is fabulous!! Thank you for sharing (I say before *I* gain 10 pounds)!
Haha thanks Patricia! Hey, homemade means healthier, right? 😉
Homemade nutella?? <3 <3 <3
Wait, what?!? You have this heavenly concoction on hand and you're NOT EATING IT?!?!?
hahaha I KNOW. It's crazy. Last night I blended it into some homemade banana ice cream (just frozen bananas and coconut milk) for friends we had over for dinner and silently sobbed to myself as they ate it 😉
Son of a! I just drooled on myself--- (like for real... not just saying it.) This looks SOOO good, your pictures are torturing me! (And are SOO good by the way, this is up their with your peanut butter pic, you're so good at picture taking! I'd have no idea how to photograph this and you nailed it)- I think this will be a verrrryyy popular from scratch item! 😉
hahaha thanks!!! 😀 You're so sweeettt bloggin' buddy beeeeeee!
I can still not get over the evilness of you starting this blog AFTER I moved 3 states away :_(
what about the evilness of you moving 3 states away?!!!? 🙁 🙁
touche
I love Nutella so much, Tracy. Would you please send me a jar? 😀
Lovely recipe and it's always so much better than the store-bought variety. I have a recipe with no added sugar - it works just as well and that much better for you.
Delicious!
we have a masochist on our hands here obviously 🙂 - luckily your husband has not given up chocolate for lent eh? 😉
Hahaha yes! Although he's training for ironman so he's cursing me too
Keep his energy levels up eh.:)
I agree with Julie, one spoon is all you need. Happy days 🙂
Amazing! This would come an addiction in my house!! 🙂
I would gladly take it off your hands and it will definitely go straight to my hips. But I will have some happy hips. 🙂
Oooh this looks amazing! It might be very dangerous for me to make it, I'd probably eat the whole batch in a day! I might just have to give it a go though
Hahaha that's why I'm kind of glad my first batch was during Lent!
Ohhhh myyyy the only thing that this jar needs is my spoon! Yum.
Delicious!
Thank you!
I would happily come over and have some! Though I am a wimp with sweet things and would probably only manage one slice of toast, but I can imagine how good it would be. Sorry you have the pain of having it there but not eating it! A good thing you shared it with Fiesta Friday, I suspect a few people will help take it off ypur hands 🙂
Delicious!!
Thanks for sharing! I can't have nutella due to a milk allergy, but I have a dairy free milk chocolate. With your recipe, I just might be able to adapt it! Happy FF, and have a wonderful weekend! (I hope you get to try this nutella once lent is over as it looks tasty.)
Thank you!! Oooh you could totally use 100% cacao / vegan chocolate chips!