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- Hi, I'm Jerry James Stone.
In today's video,
I'm gonna show you how to make homemade Nutella.
So the thing that I like about homemade Nutella
is you get to control some of those factors yourself.
Like, I like it a little bit on the less sweet side
than you get out of the regular Nutella.
So you get to do that, which is really nice.
You can sort of control it.
If you want more chocolate, if you want more sugar,
less chocolate, less sugar, whatever you want,
you get to do.
The other thing I'm gonna show you how to do is
how to melt chocolate chips in the microwave,
which is a really easy thing to do,
but it can be really easy to mess up.
So you don't need a double boiler or anything.
So let's get to it.
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So the first you need to do when making homemade Nutella
is toast the hazelnuts.
The reason that you're gonna do that
is because they have a little skin on them,
like most nuts do,
and we want to be able to remove that.
So it's really easy if you just throw them in the oven
for about 10 minutes at 350 degrees
and just get a nice little toast on them.
That'll make it really easy to remove the skin.
So I'm just gonna put these in the oven.
Like I said, 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.
Have one for myself.
Wait for 'em to minute.
So we roasted the hazelnuts.
Now we actually need to remove the skins.
It's super easy.
Once they cool down,
so let them cool for about 20 minutes,
you're just gonna take them
and just rub them between your hands
and the skins will just fall right off.
Super simple.
Let's do it.
And after that, just transfer them over to the bowl.
And onto the next batch.
So rinse and repeat until you get all of those skins off.
The reason that we're doing this
is that you don't want those papery skins in your Nutella.
Now, you don't have to be super anal-retentive about it.
It's okay if some of them are on.
It's not gonna ruin it.
But if you left all of it on,
it just would be a really weird texture for the Nutella.
Okay, so we've removed all of the skins
from the hazelnuts.
Now I'm gonna add them to the food processor
so we can puree them.
Let's go ahead and pulse them until they're nice and smooth.
(whirring)
So the next thing that we need to do
is melt our chocolate chips.
Now, it's super easy to do without a double boiler,
but you do need a microwave.
Just take a microwave-safe bowl
with the chocolate chips in there
and microwave them on 10-second intervals.
Microwave it, mix it around, put it back in the microwave,
microwave it again, mix it around,
until they're completely melted.
It's real simple.
You don't need a double boiler at all.
I'm not gonna deal with that right now.
I'm gonna use the magic of video.
Okay, so my chocolate is melted.
So the next thing I'm gonna do
is work that into the hazelnuts.
Now I've added a little bit of oil here,
and the reason I did that
is so the chocolate is a little bit more pliable,
so it'll actually pour into the hazelnut mixture.
You just want to use any sort of oil that is neutral.
So I used a canola oil.
You just want a neutral oil.
You also can use a nut oil.
You just don't want to use something like olive oil,
or, you know, that would be a little strong for this.
So add that to the hazelnuts.
There we go.
You know what?
Have some for yourself.
Now we're gonna add in a little bit of vanilla extract
and some powdered sugar.
Now the reason I'm using powdered sugar is
the powdered sugar will incorporate a lot faster
than if you were to use granulated sugar.
And we're just gonna mix that all together.
(whirring)
And scrape down the sides.
And you just want to keep pureeing this
until it's really nice and smooth.
(whirring)
Oh yeah, this is looking really, really good.
Hey, let's give it a try.
Mmm.
Yay, Nutella.
Super easy to make.
Like I said, the thing I really like about this
is just how simple it is
and how you can adjust it to your own personal taste.
You can make it sweeter, you can make it chocolatier,
you can make it less, whatever you want.
Super tasty.
Okay, so I'm just gonna transfer the Nutella
to a little mason jar, so that way it's easy to store.
Just smell all that chocolate.
There you go, homemade Nutella.
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I'll see you next time.
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