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Who among us hasn\u2019t eaten a spoonful of sweet, nutty, and chocolatey, spread<\/a> from the jar? I feel confident many of you already have. You\u2019re reading this post after all. As a Nutella Fan (and all hazelnut chocolate spreads<\/a>, really), you can imagine my shock (and skepticism) to hear about another such new spread gracing store shelves that is \u2026 get this \u2026 nut-free (!). Oh, what\u2019s that? There\u2019s no cocoa, either?!\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Nutella without the nuts \u2026 or chocolate, you say? I immediately got my hands on two jars (one nut-free, one nut-full) to see if it or I was being duped.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n As its name strategically suggests, the hazelnut-free spread<\/a> is a riff on sweetened hazelnut cocoa spreads (like Nutella). Ingredients many<\/em> of us have come to expect to find in these products, mainly hazelnuts and cocoa, are absent in Voyage\u2019s jars. Instead, they contain a blend of seeds (sunflower seed and grapeseed) and flours (sunflower and rice), plus sugar, palm oil, salt, and other natural flavors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I wanted to see how this roasted seed spread compared to the OG, so I grabbed a jar of both and got busy. A twist off of each lid reveals near-identical color and consistency. Voyage\u2019s hazelnut-free spread has an ever so slightly<\/em> lighter\/reddish hue to its brown hue, and both have a similar thickness to shelf-stable peanut butter<\/a> with their stick-to-the-knife quality. (I keep my jar in the fridge; for a looser, more saucy texture you can store it at room temperature).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n To kick off the tasting portion, I grab two spoons and dove in. With zero mentions of cocoa-anything on the Voyage jar, I was surprised by its flavor, (as was my roommate, but more on that below), which reminds me of chocolate pudding. It also has a bit of lingering sunflower butter aftertaste \u2014 IYKYK and if you don\u2019t, you very well may end up enjoying. While both spreads are capital-S Smooth, the Nutella is a bit silkier and sweeter (though both list sugar as their first ingredient).\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I also spread both on crescent dough to make one of my favorite lowest-of-low-lifts late-night snacks. After 15 minutes of rolling and baking them in the oven, and impatiently waiting for them to cool (another 10 minutes), I placed one of each on a plate for my roommate, also a big Nutella fan, to sample. (She knew there were two different fillings, but nothing else). Of course, I asked her to guess: \u201cWhich one is the hazelnut-free one?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n After a second bite of each and a sip of water in between, she ended up choosing the one filled with Nutella. So in the end, she too was totally duped.\u00a0<\/p>\nWhat You Should Know About Voyage Hazelnut-Free Spread?<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
My Honest Review of Voyage Hazelnut-Free Spread<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n