ChocoNut Spread (Raw Vegan)

This recipe was adapted and tweaked to suit me from THIS recipe, thank you to Chris at Tales of A Kitchen.

This is SO delish!

ChocoNut Spread 

(aka a Raw, Vegan version of Nutella)

You will need:

1 1/2 cups Raw Hazelnuts

7 tbsp Cacao Powder

8 Medjool Dates

1 cup of Water or Nut Milk

Pinch of Himalayan Sea Salt

3 tbsp Coconut Oil

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

and if you like it a bit sweeter 

1/4 cup Coconut Nectar

Putting it all together:

1. First things first pop those nuts into your blender and blend them until you get a sticky dough. I use a Vitamix and found I needed to constantly scrape down the sides and pulse for around 5/10 minutes. 

2. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend until it is smooth, creamy and thick.  Again I needed to give this lots of love. If the blender you're using over heats and switches off (like mine did LOL) then you can always add more water to it.

3. Put it in to a jar and pop it into the fridge. It will be good for a few weeks (doubt it will last that long though). 

4. Pop some nut milk into the blender jug with the left over ChocoNut spread and enjoy a milkshake (why wash it down the sink huh? YUM!)

5. Find ways to enjoy it like: spread it on rice cakes, use it for a frosting on a cake, mix it with frozen bananas for a yummy ChocoNanaNut Ice cream...mmm...I'm sure you could think of heaps more too!

Enjoy!