Well, there are a few healthy versions of the Nutella recipe floating around, and I’ve played around with them and tweaked the living daylights out of these recipes to finally create my family’s favourite version.

We all think it’s much tastier than the commercial Nutella, and it’s much healthier too, using healthy oils, sugars and no artificial flavours. What’s more, as you’ll see, sugar is not the main ingredient in this recipe.

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Notella

Chocolate Spread

Total Time 5 minutes

Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

• 1 cup hazelnuts
• 2 tablespoons cacao powder
• 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup or brown rice syrup or raw honey, add another tablespoon if you prefer it sweeter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 cup coconut cream

Instructions

• Warm the nuts up in the oven then remove the skins by rubbing the nuts together in a tea towel. (To be honest I skip this step because my kids don't complain about the taste or texture but you may not want to risk it).
• Place nuts in a food processor and blend until smooth. This can take a few minutes.
• Add cacao powder, sweetener of choice, vanilla, cinnamon, and coconut cream.
• Whizz up all ingredients.
• Store in a glass jar in the fridge.

Notes

Thermomix Instructions
Whiz hazelnuts on Speed 9 for 1 minute
Add cacao, sweetener of your choice, vanilla extract, cinnamon, coconut cream, and mix Speed 6 for 30 seconds.
Push down the sides, and mix Speed 6 for 20 seconds.
Store in a glass jar in the fridge.

Double the recipe and store in the freezer. 

We love our Notella:

• spread on sourdough toast for breakfast or a snack
• spread over apples or bananas
• mixed with natural yoghurt
• spread on spelt and buckwheat pancakes
• mixed with warm milk for a hot chocolate
• eaten straight out of the jar with a spoon

If you make this recipe please do take photos and send them to me.

If you share them on instagram, remember to tag me @brendajanschek.

Otherwise feel free to pm me your photos via Facebook. I get a total kick out of seeing you bring my recipes to life.

Other ‘think outside the cereal’ breakfast ideas you might love are Strawberry and Coconut Crumble and Egg Muffins.

Take a look at my FREE breakfast ebook below. The recipes will be sure to make your morning’s shine!

Bren x

And when you can sprout forth on such diverse topics as antioxidants, flavanoids and LDL while going weak at the knees upon hearing the words mousse, ganache, or even cake, you know you are a servant to your dark master.

But it’s not a guilty pleasure, and you don’t need to step behind the big pot plant to consume it, even if moderation is advised (as in all things, except chocolate……..just kidding!).

The best thing about dark chocolate is that it gives you yet another reason to drink red wine, as if you needed one! You could even follow that up with another uncontrollable slip about antioxidants.

C’mon people, I know I had you at ‘chocolate’.

Many of the ingredients in this recipe can be sourced from my one-stop-favourite, organic wholefoods online store, The Wholefood Collective. They go to great lengths to ensure everything they source is amazing quality, they stock all my favorite products and I don’t even have to leave the house! Oh and the cherry on the cake is they donate profits to improve food security for vulnerable Aussies.

Here are some of the ingredients you’ll need:

Honey
Vanilla powder
Spelt flour
Rolled oats
Desiccated coconut
Dark choc chips

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Choc-Chip Cookies

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Author Brenda Janschek

Ingredients

• 110 g unsalted butter softened
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 1.5 – 2 cups spelt flour sifted (use the extra half cup if the final mixture is too wet)
• ¾ cup rolled oats
• ½ cup desiccated coconut
• ¼ cup dark choc chips

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 175 degrees C & line 2 large baking trays with non -stick baking paper.
• Beat the butter, honey and vanilla until pale and creamy. Gently beat in the egg.
• Add the sifted flour, oats and coconut and stir until well combined.
• Add choc chips and gently fold in.
• Roll tablespoons of the mixture into balls and place on baking rays and flatten slightly.
• Place in oven and bake for approx 12-15 mins or until lightly golden.
• Leave on trays to cool.

Bren x