Brown Chocolate with Hazelnut in Bulk

Chocolate and hazelnut has been a European habit for ages. Northern Italy came up with gianduia, and Belgian and Austrian chocolatiers did the truffles. You’ll find both on this page. If you stock chocolate with hazelnut already, you know it doesn’t sit around. This brown candy group runs to 20 SKUs from five countries and seven brands, so one order can fill a few different shelves.

Maitre Truffout has the most SKUs. There are the Pralines with Hazelnut Cream & Cereal Crunch and the Duo with Hazelnut Cream. Then the Milk Chocolate Truffles with Hazelnut Filling, plus a version with Hazelnut & Cereal. They’re round cocoa-dusted shells with a soft middle. The Fancy Gold Hazelnut Truffles from Belgium are the dressy ones. Gold foil, the whole thing. We’d reach for those first if you build gift baskets.

Then Zaini, which brings three gianduia items. The Gianduiotto Dark Gianduia Chocolate comes bagged from Italy, and it’s the little pyramid that started out in Turin. Same shape again in the Gianduiotto in Gold Foil, just gift-ready. The Cremino Layered Gianduia Chocolate Assortment is the odd one. It’s striped and layered, and it looks good on a menu card or a shelf tag. If your customers care about Italian food, Zaini is a safe place to start.

Monardo has three hazelnut pieces. They’re the Gold Gianduiotto in Hazelnut Milk Chocolate and the Milk Chocolate Truffles with Cereal Hazelnut Cream. The third is the Hazelnut Pralines in Crema Nocciole Tartufo style. Put the gianduiotto beside Zaini’s and you’ve got an Italian section. The truffles and pralines can just as easily go in a praline display.

Mangini sends two small 90g bags from Italy, the Noccioletto Milk Chocolate Hazelnut and the Noccioletto Dark Chocolate Whole Hazelnut. They’re the right size for a checkout spot, where a shopper grabs something on the way out. The dark one has whole hazelnuts and not much else going on, which some people go looking for. Some of them want a plain nut and chocolate and no cream center, honestly.

Narr is Swedish, and its Chocolate Hazelnut Mix is a bulk bag that tastes different from the Italian and Belgian pieces. It’s sweeter and softer, with a more Nordic feel to the way it’s packed. It suits a by-the-pound shop or a food hall, and you won’t need a second supplier to get it. Scandinavian bulk candy pulls in a different kind of shopper than a gianduiotto does, and that’s the reason to have both on the floor.

Sconza is the American one. Its Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Hazelnuts come as a 4.5 oz 3-pack, made in the USA. Dark chocolate with sea salt is a combination people already know, so the pack is an easy one to explain. We’d set it near the cheese or wine shelf if you have one.

Vergani’s Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Pralines are the last piece. They’re Italian pralines, so you can set them next to the truffles and gianduiotti and let people compare three takes on the same flavor. That’s a fun tasting-set idea if you build those, and the shopper gets to argue with a friend about which one wins.

Formats run from loose bulk for scooping to bagged and boxed packs, plus a few bars. Case weights go from about 0.44 lb up to 2 lb. That’s small enough to turn quickly in a specialty shop or a corner grocer, and nobody has to stock up on huge quantities to try a flavor.

One order can cover quite different customers. An import deli will want the Zaini and Monardo gianduiotti. A candy-by-the-pound shop can use Narr for the scoop bins. Gift-basket builders have the boxed Maitre Truffout and Vergani, and a natural-foods store can take the Sconza sea salt hazelnuts. No single SKU does all four jobs. A mixed order gets close though. You only deal with one seller to get it.

Hazelnut chocolate sells through the holidays and carries on at Easter and Mother’s Day. Summer weddings and corporate gifts bring it back. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing, which helps in the quieter weeks between those. For larger volumes, just ask us for a quote.

Keep everything cool and dry. Direct light is a problem too, and so are strong smells. Chocolate soaks up odors, so the spice shelf is a bad spot for it. There’s no minimum, so you can try a single case of something new from our bulk candy range and see how it goes before you reorder.

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