Homemade Nutella

My kids love Nutella. 

Nutella is loaded with crap.

Mommy stopped buying Nutella :(

Along comes a recipe for Homemade Nutella on Pinterest and I'm determined now that I have a Vitamix to make it. Shopping trip to Costco today and as I'm headed to the check out there is a display with Hazelnuts. I buy them with loads of excitement in my mind and tell my boys that Mommy is going to make them Nutella at home.

No time to waste, I get started on what I envision being some sort of heavenly treat.

Recipe found here.

Ingredients

• 2 cups (8 ounces) blanched hazelnuts
• 1 cup powdered sugar
• ⅓ cup cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons hazelnut oil or coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Now let me start with saying that I saw blanched hazelnuts and I knew at that moment, I didn't buy blanched anything! These nuts had skin on them! Now I need to blanch the hazelnuts before I can even start the Nutella making process. So back to Google I go and find this site. I can totally do this. Boiling water, baking soda and ice. Easy! The skin basically fell right now. Now I can get started! 

Roast nuts. Complete. 

Gather all ingredients from cupboards. Not so complete. 

I knew I had powdered sugar, but not enough. I can't just quit here so I go back to Google. I have a Vitamix, so I'm convinced I can make my own powered sugar, right? Right!!

 Now I can throw this crap away!  I have my own ORGANIC powdered sugar.

Nuts are roasted. I can officially continue making Nutella!

Ingredients in Vitamix. Blend. Complete.

Taste test. FAIL! This does NOT taste like Nutella. I'm so sad. I think it needs more sugar! 

However, I now know how to blanch nuts and how to make my own powdered sugar. Success!