Do you love nutella, but not the many grams of sugar that most often follows the premade version? Then I got a homemade low sugar nutella you can enjoy instead.

It’s all vegan and made with hazelnuts and cashews, dark chocolate, cacao powder and a small amount of maple syrup (+ a few more things).

Together these ingredients creates a delicious creamy and soft nutella, with a deep satisfying chocolate flavour. I really love this homemade nutella, and when I put a jar of it on the morning or lunch table, it quickly shrinks in size.

Sugar-wise it’s very low, down to 10g/100g which is around the same amount of sugar you’ll get if you eat a medium apple. Most likely you’ll not eat 100g of this nutella, so the amount of sugar you’ll get will be below the 10g. Saying that, my boyfriend did in fact empty a whole jar of nutella as a kid!

This healthy vegan nutella is wonderful on bread, on pancakes, together with banana, and – alone on a spoon when those chocolates cravings are hitting (if you know what I mean). However I have to warn you – it can be hard to stop once you’ve first dived in with a spoon.

Enjoy ❤️

Recipe for Healthy Vegan Nutella

To get the best consistency, the nuts should be blended into nut butter before they are mixed with the other ingredients. This creates a wonderful creamy texture. It takes a little while, around 10-15 minutes, but the result are worth the effort.

You can make the nut butter in a strong food processor, mini-chopper or coffee grinder. A strong blender could also do the job but I find it easier to do with a food-processor or mini-chopper.

If you don’t mind spending a little more, you can cheat and buy premade nut butter. If you do, I recommend you find a cashew butter made on unroasted nuts.

TIP: Make a larger portion of the nut butters and use it for other things. Nut butters taste great and can be used in smoothies, as spread on bread instead of butter, as topping for cakes, to make nut-milks etc.

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Healthy Nutella Recipe (Vegan)

 

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A healthy and delicious homemade vegan nutella made with hazelnuts, dark chocolate, coconut oil, and a small amount of maple syrup.

Cuisine: Vegan, Glutenfree

Ingredients

• 120 g cashews
• 60 g hazelnuts
• 12 g cacao powder
• 80 g dark chocolate, 70%
• 40 g coconut oil
• 20-30 g maple syrup or other sweetener
• ½ tsp vanilla powder
• a pinch of salt

Instructions

1. Roast the hazelnuts on a pan or bake them in the oven, until they get a light brown colour and their skin starts to brake. Let them cool.
2. Add them and the cashews to a high speed food processor and blend them until they turn into a creamy nut butter. First they'll turn into a flour. Then you'll have to wipe the flour down from the sides of the machine several times. It takes a little patience to make homemade nut butter, but eventually the nuts will become soft and smooth. Remember to give your machine a few breaks so it doesn't overheat.
3. Add the nut butter to a bowl.
4. Melt the coconut oil in a pot and add it to the bowl together with cacao powder, syrup, vanilla and salt. Mix it well.
5. Melt the chocolate over a water bath or double boiler, and mix it with the other ingredients in the bowl.
6. Pretaste, and if nessacery, add more syrup.
7. The nutella can last several days in a glas jar at room temperatur. If you put it in the fridge it will become hard and you'll have to heat it up to get it soft again.

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