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? Many people now know how harmful Nutella is not only for us, but also for the environment. Nevertheless, many do not want to give up the sweet cream. It's easier to give it up if you know a healthy Nutella alternative. In this article, I will therefore show you how you can make Nutella yourself and what alternatives are available on the market.

Why you should make Nutella yourself

Nutella consists of two main 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 CO2 footprint per area of all globally relevant agricultural products. In addition, the workers on the plantations are often poorly paid. For Rainforests are being cut down for palm oil and many animal species lose their habitat.
Since Nutella is bad for ourselves, the environment and workers' rights, it makes logical sense to look for a Nutella alternative or simply make your own Nutella. Below I have prepared three cool and quite simple recipes for you.

Make your own Nutella - 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)
• 5 tablespoons Coconut oil
• 3 tablespoons Cocoa powder*
• 1/3 spoon Bourbon vanilla powder*
• 6 tablespoons avocado syrup
• 1 pinch salt
• Mixer
• Kitchen scales

Instruction

Preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
2. place the hazelnuts on a baking tray lined with baking paper and leave them in the oven for 10 minutes.
3. remove the shells from the hazelnuts. You can do this by rubbing the nuts back and forth in the palm of your hand. Don't worry if a few shells remain, it's not too bad.
4 Grind the nuts with your blender. This may take some time. It is best to interrupt the process from time to time and scrape the mass that has collected at the edges back into the actual mass with a spoon. Mix the nuts until a cream forms.
5. now add the coconut oil, cocoa powder, vanilla powder and avocado syrup one after the other. Don't forget the pinch of salt either 😉.
6. once the cream is well mixed together, you can pour it into your jar. The "Nutella" is ready.

Make your own Nutella - Recipe #2

If you don't want to give up industrial sugar, this recipe could 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 add the magerine, chocolate and ground hazelnuts.
4 After cooling, the cream has thickened a little and is ready to eat.

Make your own Nutella - Recipe #3 (without nuts)

Can't 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.
2. add the oat milk and mix the ingredients until a creamy substance is formed. The Nutella alternative is ready.

Nutella alternatives without palm oil and sugar

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

Vegan chocolate cream from Keimling Naturkost

The vegan chocolate cream from Kemling Naturkost is vegan and sugar-free. It also contains no palm oil. The packaging is made of glass. All the ingredients are organic. This makes it not only super healthy, but also very environmentally friendly. However, this chocolate cream is very liquid. It is therefore particularly suitable for pancakes. You can easily thicken it with a little rice flour.
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 tigernuts used. The sweet cream is also organic. Packaged in a jar, it also contributes to a cleaner environment. Definitely worth a try!
You can get the chocolate cream from Chufella here*.

Make your own sweet and healthy Nutella alternative

I hope you like the recipes for making your own Nutella and the Nutella alternatives that I have shown you in this article. You'll not only be doing yourself a big favor, but also the environment. Give the recipes a try and let us know 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 climateyou will find out why healthy food is not only good for us humans, but also good for the environment.