Simple Food- Chocolate Hazelnut Almond Butter

                   Chocolate Hazelnut Almond Butter

One of the best things that we have discovered on our road to simple eating is nut butter. Peanut butter has an amazing amount of fat and salt in it. We are trying to limit our nuts to only healthy ones.

When making nut butters try to keep all the ingredients as natural and un-processed as possible. We go with raw nuts and organic coconut oil. We try to use rock salt but right now we have tons of salt because of Jeremy's couponing so we are letting that slide for now. 

I have tried many butters but I always come back to almond butter....until I made homemade "nutella". 

Oh. My. Goodness.

I am in love with almonds so I did so half and half. Plus have you seen the price of hazles? Yuh.

This is the recipe I have tweaked from an amazing pinner. Like I said, I like to try and keep things as healthy as possible so I had to change some things up.

                                                  Ingredients

                                                          1 cup hazelnuts

                                                          1 cup almonds

                                                          1/3 cup almond milk

                                                          1/4 cup cocoa powder

                                                          1/2 cup honey

                                                          1 1/2 T coconut oil

                                                          salt to taste

You can use all hazelnuts but like I said, I love almonds, they are very good for you, and this recipe was awesome with them. You can do this with all almonds as I have done before. Your choice!!! Try another kind of nut if you wish!!!! 

                                                 Method

Measure out the nuts you choose and put them in a tough blender or processor. Blend until clumpy, stop, scrape down sides, blend until smooth. 

Add coconut oil, blend, scrap down sides. This can take a very long time, use as small a blender as you have. It can take 10 minutes to get it creamy and looking like a "butter". Add all the rest of the ingredients except the salt and blend until smooth. Add a little salt, blend taste and continue until you have the right amount of salt. 

You could probably also substitute the honey for fresh maple syrup. The original recipe called for 1/2 cup of sugar and I wasn't about the go there. The honey tasted great.

I could eat this stuff with a spoon but tastes amazing on some fresh white, sourdough and soft oatmeal toast!!! 

Enjoy!!!!