Yes, there is a World Nutella Day, to celebrate everyone's favorite hazelnut spread. In Italy, Nutella can't be labeled a chocolate spread because it doesn't meet minimum cocoa requirements. Those Italians, they take their chocolate very seriously. We should take note. But whether you call it chocolate, hazelnut, or just good, Nutella is in a class of its own. Here are a few of our favorite things to do with Nutella:
• Smear on a chunk of fresh baguette and eat for breakfast with a cup of really strong coffee. In Italy, we started every day like this.
• Sandwich between sugar cookies
• Eat with a spoon.
Also, check out a whole blog celebration and roundup of Nutella recipes and posts at Nutella Day.


Comments (22)
Sorry, but you forgot my favorite... a peanut butter and Nutella sandwich.
Peanut butter and Nutella crepes! SO good!
Is that a photograph or illustration? In either case, it's very good.
Oh, yes, Nutella. Love it!
My cousin in Paris puts a New England spin on nutella sandwiches and eats them with Fluff when one of us Americans is kind enough to send him some.
here Nutella has too much sugar - in Europe less - it is better on the other side of the ocean
Nutella and banana pressed sandwiches. Mmm...
when i was in germany, we ate it for anytime meals on the most delicious rye bread. and the family i stayed with had their own bread slicer - come home from the bars and have nutella on german rye. i still dream of it.
Nutella and blackberry jam on toast is what we'll all eat in heaven.
They serve Nutella at least once a week for "gouter" at my daughter's Montessori here in Suisse... Funny, how back home it was just fruit, veg or cheese&crackers at snack time, but here, it is chocolate at the end of classes just about every afternoon...
Cupcake frosting by itself or swirl with some PB.
A Nutella panini topped with whipped cream and some fresh strawberries - the first time I had it was at a wine bar and just couldn't get enough of it
You haven't had a real breakfast until you've tasted my Nutella/banana panini!
remember fluffernutter sandwichs, try it with nutella instead. You'll never go back.
I also am partial to Nutella Peanut butter combinations... smeared on toast, for instance.
How long will Nutella keep? Just curious, I know this shouldn't be a problem, lol; but I was wondering.
Every day should be a Nutella day!
One year and about 6 months ago, my mom sent me to the store for some crackers. While cruising the isles, I saw a shelf with NUTELLA.
I asked the girl next to me if she had ever had it, and she WENT INTO CONVULSIONS!! While leaning over her carriage (kinda to the side), she kept saying... "O....M....G!!!" Then she was like... "You HAVE to buy it! It's the BEST thing EVAH!"
I was cracking up laughing! So we chatted, and needless to say, I bought a jar of Nutella. During our talk, we discovered that we really had a LOT of the same taste in food. So it really took EVERYTHING i had NOT to open the jar (while I was in the car) and stick my finger in!
After I got home I tasted it (finger). O.....M....G!!!!!! It is the BEAST substance EVAH!!!!! It made me weep with it's tasty goodness. While I was crouched in the corner, with tears staining my cheeks, and my finger floating from the jar to my mouth, I sent up a silent prayer asking for eternal blessings to the Oh So Cool Chick at the grocery store.
I'm getting verclempt just thinking of my Nutella... the jar that is at home, waiting for my arrival, like a patient lover.
Just so my right index finger won't shrivel to just a nub, i've decided to try some of your recipes for it. I think I'll start with the Fluff and Nutella sandwich.
Thanks for the ideas and for recognizing such an AWESOME product!! Cheers for Nutella!!
I meant the BEST substance, not the Beast substance.
My family is fresh off the boat, and my grandparents used to put Nutella on everything. I remember way back when receiving boxes of it from relatives in Italy because we couldn't find too much of it in Brooklyn. Thus, it is an important part of my childhood.
Nutella and chocolate crepes. Yum.
Nutella pizza drizzled with honey. Yum. Or I just put a cup of Nutella in the fridge for an hour, then eat it with a spoon.
Nutella in ice cream!? It always hardens and sticks annoyingly to my spoon when I try this... not that I really mind, but I'm certainly unable to "swirl" it in.
Dip salted pretzels into it... addictive!