Easy Homemade Nutella

I made homemade Nutella a while back, took a bunch of pictures, and realized I never got around to posting them! So here is my first attempt at chocolate butter spread. I took a cue from Robin over at Our Semi Organic Life and used almonds instead of hazelnuts because I don't know where to buy hazelnuts and mostly, I think they are weird looking.

I started by toasting the almonds. This gave the finished product a more almondy taste so I would skip this step if you want your chocolate butter more chocolaty then almondy.

I put 2 cups of my toasting almonds in the food processor and let it run for a very long time. First they turned to a find ground powder, keep processing.

Eventually, the almonds turn to a peanut butter looking ball.

The next step is adding the chocolate. I used coco powder and powdered sugar. The recipes I googled said to use just a few table spoons of coco and something like a half a cup of powedered sugar but I ended up just pouring in tons of both until I liked the taste. Keep mixing and you end up with this texture.

Using two cups of almonds and a lot of powdered sugar and chocolate I ended up getting almost two jars full of homemade chocolate butter.

Overall it was really easy to make and using almonds it ended up being much cheaper (and possibly healthier? maybe?) than the Nutella you buy at the store and just as delicious! Try it!