There is another way to live and enjoy cocoa cream, and it does not necessarily go through buying an industrially processed product in the supermarket. Making a Nutella or Nocilla at home is not impossible and you will see that the result is so satisfactory that it will not come out of your recipe book anymore.
Controlling all the processes and knowing what ingredients we add to our recipes is a perfect way to really know what we are eating and, in this case, to dispense with certain types of fats that are sometimes found in industrial cocoa creams.
To spread at will on toast or cookies —although with some moderation, which is still a caloric sweet— or to use it in other pastry recipes such as these dorayakis or this quick sponge cake, this homemade Nutella is the ideal option to remember childhood snacks without delay.
Just five ingredients, all easy to find, are necessary for this recipe that is also very undemanding in the kitchen and that you can later keep easilyeither in the fridge or in the freezer.
The simplicity of this recipe allows you to have it ready in just 10 minutes —and you will have a few left over—, so you can do it at night and have a perfect cocoa cream to start breakfast the next morning or surprise with an afternoon snack.
All you have to do is have a kitchen robot or a food grinder with a certain power. First we crush the toasted hazelnuts until they are like a sticky paste, which will be more or less about four minutes. Then add the rest of the ingredients and blend for another couple of minutes until you have a cream of relatively liquid consistency.
We put it in a jar with a lid, refrigerate in the fridge and let it rest for a couple of hours so that it settles and takes on the spreadable cream texture that we so much desire and that’s it.
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With what to accompany the homemade Nutella
Few better friends can have a cocoa cream or a homemade Nutella than some toast, but we can also think of crêpes, waffles, pancakes or pancakes, of course, and with them we crown ourselves with a quick snack that does not ask us for more than 15 minutes.
You can also take advantage of this homemade Nutella to make another pastry in which you want to resort to cocoa creams that give you more confidence because you know the ingredients well and, above all, the degree of sugar that you have used to monitor extra calories.
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