The Nutural World nut range offers 100% nuts, lightly toasted and stone-milled, ground into a fine, slightly textured paste. This hazelnut paste offers a rich, earthy flavour with mild sweetness that adds a delicious nutty taste and fine texture to your recipes.  

Hazelnut paste blends beautifully into ganache and can be used for making gianduja, flavouring crémes or combined with sugar to make a praliné. You can even add a pinch of sea salt to offset the sweetness, just as you would with a salted caramel. 

Applications 

Chocolate 

• Combine with your chosen couverture to make your own gianduja 
• Mix with sugar to create a delicious hazelnut praliné 
• Create your own chocolate hazelnut spread 
• Make hazelnut truffles by combining with ganache or truffle mass and rolling in caramelised nibbed hazelnuts 

Bakery & Patisserie 

• Make hazelnut and chocolate pastries by spreading a mixture of chocolate and nut paste over your baked goods, post-bake 

Flavour Pairings 

Hazelnut tastes great with so many other flavours, from coffee, cinnamon and vanilla to fruits like bananas, berries, stone fruits, pears and oranges. And, of course, chocolate! Try Valrhona Alpaco 66% dark chocolate, Callebaut Arriba 39% milk chocolate or Cacao Barry Papouasie 35%. 

Troubleshooting 

Oil layer on top of product – Oil separation is completely normal with these all-natural nut pastes, simply use a sharp implement such as a skewer to pierce the surface in several places and leave for a while to reabsorb the oil before stirring until completely combined.