Description
Creamy white nutella offers a luxurious twist on classic chocolate spreads originating from Italy. Silky hazelnut-infused white chocolate creates a delightful experience you will savor on toast, pastries, or straight from the spoon.
Ingredients
Scale
Regular Version:
- 5 tsp canola oil
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 8 oz (225 g) white chocolate
- 4.5 oz (127 g) roasted and peeled hazelnuts
Vegan Paleo Version:
- 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- 3/16 tsp salt (plus more to taste)
- 6 tbsps maple syrup
- 2 oz (57 g) cocoa butter
- 6 oz (170 g) roasted and peeled hazelnuts
Instructions
- Preparation: Chop white chocolate into uniform small pieces and measure out all ingredients for smooth workflow.
- Chocolate Melting: Use microwave technique, rotating bowl and stirring gently at 30-second intervals until achieving a glossy, smooth liquid without solid fragments, maintaining precise temperature control.
- Hazelnut Processing: Transfer hazelnuts and salt into a food processor, pulse continuously to create a fine, powdery texture with minimal graininess, ensuring consistent granulation.
- Flavor Infusion: Blend vanilla extract and neutral oil into ground hazelnut mixture, processing until a luxurious, creamy paste emerges with silky smooth consistency.
- Ingredient Fusion: Stream warm, fluid white chocolate into hazelnut mixture, blending thoroughly to create a homogeneous spread with uniform color and velvety texture.
- Setting and Storage: Pour freshly created spread into a clean glass jar, allow to rest at room temperature for 6-8 hours, enabling natural stabilization and achieving ideal spreadable consistency.
Vegan Paleo Version:
- Foundation Preparation: Gently melt cocoa butter using low, controlled heat in a small saucepan, avoiding direct high temperatures to preserve delicate structural integrity.
- Nut Transformation: Pulse raw hazelnuts with salt in food processor, creating a fine, consistent meal with uniform granulation.
- Liquid Integration: Combine melted cocoa butter, pure maple syrup, and vanilla extract with ground hazelnut base, processing at low speed to develop a smooth, glossy mixture.
- Cooling and Preservation: Transfer liquid spread into a clean glass container, allow to cool and set at room temperature over 6-8 hours, occasionally stirring to prevent ingredient separation.
Notes
- Ingredient Quality Matters: Choose premium white chocolate or cocoa butter with high cocoa butter content for smoother, richer texture and better melting performance.
- Temperature Control is Critical: Melt chocolate or cocoa butter gently using low heat or microwave intervals to prevent burning or seizing, which can ruin the entire spread.
- Processing Technique Impacts Texture: Pulse hazelnuts consistently and process continuously to achieve a creamy, uniform paste without graininess, ensuring a professional-grade spread.
- Stabilization Requires Patience: Allow the spread to rest at room temperature for 6-8 hours, occasionally stirring, to develop ideal spreadability and prevent ingredient separation.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Snacks, Desserts, Breakfast
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: Italian
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 250
- Sugar: 12 g
- Sodium: 50 mg
- Fat: 18 g
- Saturated Fat: 4 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 14 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 23 g
- Fiber: 2 g
- Protein: 4 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg