Liquid Nutella.
Who wouldn’t want to drink a thick glass of Nutella?
Drink it, eat it, bathe in it… okay, maybe not the last one. Then again, perhaps a Nutella bath could be fun. I wonder if they sell such a thing as Nutella bubble bath. They should. I’d buy it.
In bulk.
Chocolate Nutella Milk
- 1/2 cup roasted or raw hazelnuts (Other nuts will work too.)
- 2 tsp cocoa or cacao powder
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1/4 plus 1/8 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 cup water or milk of choice, or more if a thinner drink is desired. This also gets much thicker as it sits in the fridge
- sweetener–such as stevia, sugar, maple syrup, or even a banana–to taste
Optional: roast hazelnuts 6-8 minutes at 400F. In a bowl, soak the nuts in water for at least 8 hours (or overnight), then drain. I didn’t bother to skin, but you can if desired. Combine all ingredients in a high-powered blender (like a Vita-Mix), and blend thoroughly until super-smooth. If you have cheesecloth, I highly recommend pouring the milk through a sieve lined with cheesecloth. But if you don’t mind a gritty-textured drink, you can skip this step. Before serving, it’s best to fridge until chilled, as it will be hot from blending. This will keep, covered in the fridge, for up to 4 days.
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Where do you get your hazelnuts? The stores around here don’t carry them.
I can find them in the bulk section at Whole Foods, but oddly enough my regular grocery store (Kroger) sells them packaged in the aisle with the other raw nuts and baking ingredients.
i don’t actually drink milk, i just use it for recipes, smoothies and occasionally to eat with a bowl of cereal. but mostly i get silk or almond breeze almond or coconut milk, and i really like the middle ground – almond breeze’s half almond/half coconut milk! i do notice my smoothies seem sweeter when i use coconut milk.
Is there a reason why a vitamix can’t be used just like a food processor?
Also, isn’t the point of the vitamix to mix the shake/milk enough to where you don’t need the cheesecloth? Or are nuts indestructible? 😉
Hey Laura, I use my vitamix all the time time to make nut milks. No matter what you use, you will ALWAYS be left with the ‘fiber’ part of the nut, so straining it is something you’ll want to do if you don’t like gritty milk :). What I do prefer to use over cheese cloth for straining though is a mesh bag. DON’T waste your money on the ‘nut milk’ bags. Go to a place that either supplies wine making materials or does U-brew wine and buy the mesh bags they carry for wine making purposes. They’re closer to $2 than the $10-$20 they want for “nut milk” bags.
The only time I ever strain my Vitamix-made nut milks is if I’m planning on putting the milk in tea, and that’s rare. Although the unstrained finished product may have fiber, to me it just seems thicker, not gritty at all–unless it’s not blended thoroughly enough, in which case I just dump it back in the Vitamix for another few seconds.
Though if you do strain, I second getting straining bags from a place that sells homebrew equipment; it’s shameful that companies charge so much for “nut milk bags.”
What a cool and delicious drink idea Katie. I’ll will so make this. 🙂
I used to drink nothing but soy milk, but I’ve completely switched to almond milk these days. Silk is my fave!
PS I mentioned your Nutella recipe in my post today!
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Looks amazing!! You are so creative, I never soaked my nuts, I have to try that!! I know what I’ll be doing before I go to bed tonight!! Favorite milk is skim milk or unsweetened coconut milk.
Sounds amazing! I can’t wait to try! And my favorite milk is by far strawberry 🙂 LOVE!
Sounds fantastic … I don’t use nutella because it’s all sugar but this version is totally do-able. In answer to your question, I prefer unsweetened organic soy milk in my smoothies and cooking but use 1% regular organic milk when I get the hankering for some milk to drink.
Trader Joe’s Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk is my absolute favorite ever! It’s the one in the blue carton, I don’t know what the red one tastes like. I initially bought it because it had the lowest amount of calories but the first time I put it in my cereal and tasted it, I actually smiled. That had never happened to me before! It’s that good!
That sounds so yummy! I am definitely going to make this one. But for bathing in chocolate is incredible. I sometimes get a Dutch chocolate soap made locally here that smells so good I want to eat it!
My favorites rice milk (not Horchata!) and flax milk, which I got for the first time last weekend. I had to hunt it down at my not so local Sprouts. I used the flax milk in my banana bread the other day, everyone raved about the bread! I usually use rice milk in all my recipes and they always work out.
Almond milk, I would love to make my own, but I haven’t made it that far…
Drinking it now! I’d say the hardest part of this recipe is waiting for those darn hazelnuts to soak. But I’ll be making this again. It’s so good, like drinking a thick milkshake. YUM!
Just made it….can’t stop drinking it. Deliciousness!!