Homemade Nutella - Feast Your Eyes

by Marisa McClellan (Subscribe to Marisa McClellan's posts)
Posted Mar 5th 2009 8:00AM
Filed under: Feast Your Eyes

I have always had it in the back of my mind that I'd like to make nutella from scratch someday. Ever since I read someplace that the American version has all sorts of unsavory ingredients, I figured it would be a good idea to try to make a more natural batch (and besides, making your own chocolate hazelnut spread means that you get to lick the spoon when you're done).

Elana says it's a little labor intensive, but well worth the effort. Thanks for the delicious picture and the reminder to make this, Elana!

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3-05-2009 @ 9:36AM

christopher said...

Unsavory ingredients and the whole chocolate slavery thing. I had it in my head the nutella used slave chocolate but I can't find any information now. I could be wrong but certainly plenty of big chocolate companies do. I'd love to have nutella in the house again - I'm sure homemade is well worth the effort.

3-05-2009 @ 9:37AM

Marisa McClellan said...

Christopher, I didn't know anything about Nutella slave chocolate. If you do find more information, please pass it along!

3-05-2009 @ 9:57AM

John said...

Ferrero aren't really that much of a chocolate company though, they're the italians behing TicTacs amongst other things.

On an ethical scale they're not bad, well at least according to this site
http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/FreeBuyersGuides/fooddrink/chocolatesboxes.aspx

3-05-2009 @ 12:07PM

RT said...

If this peanut recall keeps up, we may all be making our own nut butters. Perhaps you can use this idea in a future post.

3-05-2009 @ 1:16PM

Lorenzo said...

I make my own nutella regularly for my kids. It's nice to be able to swap the relative proportions of nuts and sugar. I work off a basis that is chocolate hazelnut butter, and add powdered milk to that. On a positive note around nutella, it was the inspiration for plumpy-nut, a formula used to restore undernourished children in underdeveloped parts of the world.

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