Healthy Homemade Hazelnut Butter Recipes

HEALTHY HOMEMADE HAZELNUT BUTTER

Steps:

• Add the hazelnuts to a food processor and pulse about 20-30 times until you get hazelnut crumbs. Process again for a minute straight until you get hazelnut meal.
• Scrape down the sides of the food processor and process again (follow your processor's instructions, I had to stop every 60 seconds. It took me about 20 minutes total of constant processing, scraping, processing, etc...).
• When nut butter is smooth and buttery give it a taste (add salt and/or stevia to taste). Let cool a bit and scoop into a pretty jar with a sealable lid. Store covered in the refrigerator.

THIS SIMPLE HAZELNUT BUTTER IS WAY HEALTHIER THAN NUTELLA

Steps:

• Place hazelnuts, salt, and cinnamon (if using) into a blender. Starting on the lowest speed and blend mixture until crumbly-about 30 seconds to 1 minute. Increase speed and blend about 1 to 2 minutes until smooth and creamy, scraping down sides with a rubber spatula as-needed.
• Use the rubber spatula to scoop hazelnut butter into an airtight container. Keep refrigerated.

HAZELNUT AND BROWN BUTTER CAKE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat, and continue to cook it until it turns brown and smells quite nutty, being careful not to let it burn, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool almost to room temperature.
• Meanwhile, heat a convection oven to 325 degrees F or a conventional oven to 350 degrees F. Butter the bottom of a 10-inch round cake pan and line the bottom of the pan with parchment paper.
• Spread the hazelnuts on a rimmed baking sheet and toast them in the oven until lightly browned and fragrant, 10 to 15 minutes. Wrap the hazelnuts in a clean kitchen towel and rub them together vigorously to remove most of the skins. (It's fine if some is left on.)
• Chop about 1/4 cup of the nuts finely. Grind the rest of the toasted nuts in a food processor until finely ground.
• Sift the flour, confectioners' sugar, and salt together into a large bowl. Add the ground nuts and whisk to combine. Add the egg whites and whisk them together well with the dry ingredients. Slowly add the melted butter, whisking constantly until it is completely incorporated and no butter is floating on top of the mixture.
• Pour the batter into the prepared pan and sprinkle the top with the reserved chopped nuts. Bake until the cake feels solid but still gives slightly when touched, 40 to 45 minutes. Let the cake cool in the pan for 10 minutes before inverting it onto a serving plate.

HOMEMADE HAZELNUT BUTTER

Steps:

• To begin, roast the hazelnuts in the oven at 165ºC (fan assisted) for 15 minutes. Leave them to cool till warm-to-the-touch.
• Remove the skin from the hazelnuts. To remove the skins you can either simply scrunch them in your hands or bunch them up within a clean towel and rub between your hands. The skins will fall off the roasted nuts fairly easily, this way as the friction of the nuts rubbing together will cause the skins to loosen.
• Blend them in a high-speed processor/blender. It's best to do so at intervals so the nuts (and machine) don't overheat. The longer you blend the runnier the nut butter consistency will be. For a smooth runny hazelnut butter, blend for about 15 minutes with breaks every 2-3 minutes.
• Once the hazelnut butter is ready, simply transfer it to an airtight glass container and keep this in the fridge for 2-3 months or at room temperature for around a month.

HAZELNUT & CHOCOLATE BUTTER

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Tip the hazelnuts onto a large baking tray, place in the oven and roast for 10 mins, stirring now and then to ensure they don't catch at the edges. When golden brown, remove form the oven and leave to cool completely.
• Tip the nuts into a food processor, add the cocoa or cacao, maple syrup and salt. Blend for 6-8 mins, until you're left with a smooth nut butter, if you want to loosen the consistency, add a drizzle of hazelnut oil and blend again.

CHOCOLATE-HAZELNUT BUTTER

Steps:

• Place hazelnuts in a food processor; cover and process for 2-3 minutes or until mixture pulls away from sides of processor. Continue processing while gradually adding confectioners' sugar, cocoa and salt to reach desired consistency. Store in the refrigerator.