Whenever I slept over at my Italian grandparents’ house as a kid, I would wake up to freshly baked panini with homemade nutella. It was just about the best thing I could imagine having for breakfast at the time. This recipe works best if you have a food processor or powerful blender – my cheap little blender almost burned out working through the nuts. The taste was worth it though!
Ingredients
1 cup dry roasted, unsalted hazelnuts
1/3 cup dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp icing sugar
1 tbsp cocoa
1/2 tsp vanilla
Directions
Mix the hazelnuts and powdered sugar in a mason jar with a screw-on blender attachment (or food processor).
Mix the chocolate chips, cocoa, and butter in a bowl. Microwave for 30 seconds to melt the butter, then mix it all together into a thick melted paste.
Add the chocolate paste to the hazelnut jar/food processor, and blend until it’s as smooth (or chunky) as you like. Spread on toast, bananas, pancakes, or whatever else you would put nutella on!
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