Chocolate Hazelnut Butter
Delicious hazelnut butter with a chocolate taste.
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1c hazenuts
1 tbsp agave
1 tbsp coconut oil
1 tbsp raw cacao
powder
pinch sea salt (optional. Meaning I didn't add any but I hear you're supposed to?)
in a food processor, blend (process? what's the right word here?) the hazelnuts until smooth. It took a long time, so I took a blending break every once in a while to scrap down the sides and scrap up the butter that was forming on the bottom.
I also didn't want it to get too hot in order to keep it raw, so breaks were good. We have this awesome laser temperature reader that I love to use while uncooking, and that I'm pretty sure the boy is regretting introducing me to for that reason, and I checked the temperature when it had all become butter, which I felt was probably the hottest point, and it was 101-102F (Funny, I've always been a centigrade girl until I got into the whole raw thing. Also funny is how I can only do sewing measurements in non metric and have a lot of trouble getting my head around metric, but I can only do distances and speeds in metric...)
After it was butterized, I added in the rest of the ingredients and processed till well mixed. You might want to add in the coconut oil near the beginning to help it get going faster.

2 reponses to "Chocolate Hazelnut Butter"
1. This is great spread on
This is great spread on slices of a Granny Smith!
2. The reason most people add
The reason most people add salt is to cut some of the sweetness...