Make Nutella yourself - 3 recipes & alternatives

Can you make Nutella yourself or are there suitable alternatives to Nutella chocolate cream without sugar and palm oil? By now, many people know how harmful Nutella is not only for us, but also for the environment. Nevertheless, many do not want to do without the sweet cream. The renunciation is easier if you know a healthy Nutella alternative. In this article, I show you how you can make Nutella yourself and what alternatives are available on the market.

Why you should make Nutella yourself

Nutella consists mainly of two ingredients: Sugar and palm oil. While sugar is particularly bad for our health, palm oil is not recommended, especially for sociological and environmental reasons. This is because palm oil plantations have the highest carbon footprint per area of all globally relevant agricultural products. In addition, the workers on the plantations are often poorly paid. For Palm oil rainforests are cut down and many animal species lose their habitat.
Since Nutella is bad for ourselves, the environment and the rights of workers, it makes logical sense to look for a Nutella alternative or just make the Nutella itself. Below I have prepared three cool and quite simple recipes for you.

Make Nutella yourself - recipe #1

This recipe is particularly healthy. It comes almost entirely without industrial sugar. Instead, avagado syrup is used.

Ingredients

• 300 g hazelnuts (preferably organic quality)
• 5 tablespoons Coconut oil
• 3 tablespoons Cocoa powder*
• 1/3 spoon Bourbon vanilla powder*
• 6 tablespoons avagado syrup
• 1 pinch salt
• Mixer
• Kitchen scales

Instruction

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
Put the hazelnuts on a tray with baking paper and leave them in the oven for 10 minutes.
Remove the shell of the hazelnuts. This works by rubbing the nuts back and forth in the palm of your hand. Don't worry, if a few shells stay on, it's not so bad.
Grind the nuts with your blender. This may take some time. It is best to interrupt the process now and then and scrape the mass, which has collected at the edges, back into the actual mass with a spoon. Mix the nuts until a cream is formed.
Now add the coconut oil, cocoa powder, vanilla powder and avocado syrup one by one. You should also not forget the pinch of salt 😉.
Once the cream is well mixed, you can pour it into your jar. The "Nutella" is ready.

Make Nutella yourself - recipe #2

If you don't want to give up industrial sugar, this recipe might be for you. It contains industrial sugar, but is also vegan and palm oil free.

Ingredients

• 100 g chocolate
• 30 g hazelnuts
• 80 g sugar
• 50 g magerine
• 1 package vanilla sugar
• 100 ml oat milk or an alternative plant milk

Instruction

1. grind the hazelnuts as in the first recipe.
Bring the vegetable milk and sugar to the boil.
3. then follows the lean, chocolate and ground hazelnuts.
4. after cooling, the cream is slightly thickened and ready for consumption.

Make Nutella yourself - recipe #3 (without nuts)

Do you not tolerate nuts because you have an allergy? No problem, because with the following recipe you can make your own Nutella completely without nuts.

Ingredients

• 3 soaked dates
• 6 tablespoons oatmeal (you can also use a blender to make fine oatmeal)
• 1.5 tablespoons cocoa powder
• ½ tsp vanilla powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon, ground
• 15 tablespoons oat milk

Instruction

Mix all the dry ingredients together.
Add the oat milk and mix the ingredients until a creamy substance is formed. Ready is the Nutella alternative.

Nutella alternatives without palm oil and sugar

If you don't have time to make Nutella yourself, you can also buy a Nutella alternative. Now I present you the best Nutella alternatives.

Vegan chocolate cream from Keimling Naturkost

The vegan chocolate cream from Kemling Naturkost is vegan and sugar-free. In addition, it does not contain palm oil. The packaging is made of glass. All ingredients come in organic quality. Thus, it is not only super healthy, but also very environmentally friendly. However, this chocolate cream is very liquid. Therefore, it is particularly suitable for pancakes. With a little rice flour you can easily thicken it.
You can get the vegan chocolate cream here*.

Tigernut chocolate cream from Chufella

This chocolate cream is also sugar-free and vegan. The sweetness comes from the tiger nuts used. In addition, the sweet cream is organic. Packaged in a jar, it also contributes to a clean environment. Definitely worth a try!
You can get the chocolate cream from Chufella here*.

Make sweet and healthy Nutella alternative yourself

I hope you like the recipes to make Nutella yourself and the Nutella alternatives that I have shown you in this article. So you do not only you, but also the environment a big favor. Just try the recipes and tell us which Nutella alternative you liked best.

Do you know any other recipes for making Nutella yourself or other alternatives? Then leave us a comment below this post.

Kind regards,

PS: In the article Nutrition and the environment - Healthy food for a good climate you will learn why healthy food is not only good for us humans, but also good for the environment.