Spreadable

Are you looking for a spreadable cream to replace Nutella? Here this is a vegetable version therefore without milk and other ingredients of animal origin. Basically, however, the main ingredients are the same because it is a cream based on hazelnuts, cocoa and sugar.

The world of spreads is infinite, you can use different fats, saturated or unsaturated, different types of sugar, or just omit it, use cocoa or chocolate, different types of dried fruit or freeze-dried fresh fruit, etc. 

You can really play with a thousand different ingredients. Today we see the classic version, but by clicking here you can also find the caramelized version, a spread with hazelnut and chocolate praline, a pleasure.

Try these brioche clouds filled with quests spread.

Method

Preheat the fan oven to 160˚.

Prepare a baking tray with baking paper or silicone mat. 

Pour over the hazelnuts. 

Toast for about 20 minutes.

Transfer the hazelnuts to a powerful grinder. Operate at maximum power.  

Now it will take several minutes to get to the final result.

First of all the hazelnuts will be chopped into coarse powder.

Then you will start to form a paste, the paste is now still dense and rough, it is not ready, you have to continue blending to release all the oil contained in the hazelnuts.

When the pasta is semi-fluid it is ready. Now add the other ingredients then sugar and cocoa.

Then continue to blend at maximum power so as to break up all the sugar grains.

Then add the roughly chopped chocolate. Since the hazelnuts were hot (after toasting) and since blending heats up the mixture, there is no need to melt the chocolate because it will melt on its own with the heat that the mixture already has and, furthermore, by blending it still manages to combine well.

Then continue to blend until everything mixes well together and you obtain a nice homogeneous spreadable cream.

Then transfer it into glass jars.