{"id":143,"date":"2007-12-06T14:32:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T19:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/06\/crunchy-nutella-hazelnut-chocolate-bars\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T14:31:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T19:31:40","slug":"crunchy-nutella-hazelnut-chocolate-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/crunchy-nutella-hazelnut-chocolate-bars\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchy Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There really is such a thing as heaven in your mouth, and when you taste these, you&#8217;ll know exactly what I mean.  <\/p>\n<p>I always make these around the holidays, and this year will be no different.&nbsp; This time I&#8217;ll take them to work and let everyone enjoy them&#8230;.so I don&#8217;t end up eating them all ;)  <\/p>\n<p>This recipe is actually a variation of another recipe.&nbsp; The original recipe called for peanut butter and peanuts, instead of Nutella and hazelnuts. (<a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/08\/peanut-butter-chocolate-bars\/\" target=\"_blank\">See here for the original recipe<\/a>), but though that one is great, this is just.. amazingly yummy.&nbsp; It&#8217;s always the first thing to go, and people are always asking for the recipe.  <\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!! <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h2>Crunchy Nutella Hazelnut Chocolate Bars<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>2 cups Nutella <br \/>4 cups powdered sugar (10x sugar or icing sugar)<br \/>1\/2 cup butter<br \/>3 cups of a crunchy cereal, like rice chex<br \/>2 cups chocolate chips<br \/>1\/2 cup of chopped hazelnuts <\/p>\n<p>In either a sauce pan, or the microwave, melt 1\/2 cup of butter and set aside.  <\/p>\n<p>Mix the Nutella and powdered sugar.&nbsp; Add in the melted butter and mix well.  <\/p>\n<p>Fold in the cereal, and then spread evenly in a cake sized pan (13&#215;9).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>In the microwave, melt the chocolate chips, and spread over the Nutella mixture. Sprinkle with the chopped hazelnuts.  <\/p>\n<p>Allow to cool well, and then cut into squares.  <\/p>\n<p>This keeps for about a week, in a tightly covered container.  <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<h3>Notes: <\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of variations to this recipe.. for example, use cashew butter or another nut butter.&nbsp; If using cashews, use chopped cashews in place of the peanuts.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And of course, there is the traditional <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/2007\/11\/08\/peanut-butter-chocolate-bars\/\" target=\"_blank\">peanut butter and peanut<\/a> recipe as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really is such a thing as heaven in your mouth, and when you taste these, you&#8217;ll know exactly what I mean. I always make these around the holidays, and this year will be no different.&nbsp; This time I&#8217;ll take &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/06\/crunchy-nutella-hazelnut-chocolate-bars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[105,486,141,487,192,492,251],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-desserts","tag-chocolate","tag-christmas","tag-dessert","tag-desserts","tag-hazelnut","tag-holiday","tag-nutella"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}