Healthy Nutella Spread

Course: Frostings & Dips

Cuisine: American

Prep Time: 5

Total Time: 5

Servings:

Calories: 122kcal

Author: Lauren

Wondering how you can enjoy Nutella in a macro-friendly way? With this Homemade Healthy Nutella Recipe! It has half the fat, calories and sugar as the original, but it's still THICK, chocolatey and delicious. You can literally spread it on anything!

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Ingredients

1/3 cup nut butter (84g) hazelnut or cashew butter work best*
1/3 cup cocoa powder (35g)
1/3 cup pure maple syrup (80g)
2 Tbsp sweetener (24g) I used monk fruit
1 Tbsp water (15g)
1.5 tsp vanilla extract
3/4 tsp hazelnut extract
1/2 tsp liquid stevia optional for sweeter spread
Pinch of salt

Instructions

To make healthy nutella spread, add all the ingredients to a small bowl and whisk/stir to combine. Keep stored in an airtight container at room temperature or in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
To make more thin: add more water
To thicken up:let sit in the fridge for a couple of hours.

Notes

To make nut-free: use sunflower butter.

Helpful Tips

For a lot less sugar and calories, you can get your sweet chocolate fix in a much healthier way!

For a thinner consistency, add more water.
For a thicker consistency, let sit in the fridge for a couple of hours.
For the most similar taste as nutella, use hazelnut butter. Other nut butters work just fine! It just might have more of whatever kind of nut butter you use taste!
If you don’t have hazelnut butter, I would say sunflower butter or cashew butter would be the next best thing because they are more neutral tasting butters. But it still tastes amazing with almond butter and peanut butter too!
If you need nut free, use sunflower butter.
Normal cocoa powder works best for this recipe (over dark cocoa powder) for best taste and flavor
Store frosting in the fridge for 30 minutes after making it to thicken
Keep stored in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

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