Bulk Chocolate with Hazelnut (Bulk)

Bulk Chocolate with Hazelnut: Italian, Belgian, and Swedish Imports for Wholesale

Europe has been pairing these two flavors for a long time, and every country does it a bit differently. Some pieces are whole nuts in a chocolate shell. Others are truffles with hazelnut cream inside. You’ll also see layered gianduia, plus pralines with a cereal crunch in the middle. All of that is in this bulk assortment, and we think it’s the most Italian-feeling chocolate shelf we stock.

Maitre Truffout has five of the fourteen. Four come from Italy. There are Milk Chocolate Truffles with Hazelnut Filling and a second truffle with hazelnut and cereal. The Pralines with Hazelnut Cream and Cereal Crunch sit next to the Pralines Duo with Hazelnut Cream. They’re different enough from each other that two or three can share a display without looking like duplicates. The fifth is Belgian, the Fancy Gold Hazelnut Truffles, which come in a gold finish and a bigger size than the Italian ones. We’d send those to anyone building gift boxes.

Monardo: The Italian Hazelnut Spectrum

Monardo is Italian and covers three formats. The Italian Gold Gianduiotto is the old Piedmontese boat shape in gold foil. It’s real gianduia with nothing modern about it, and on a shelf it looks handmade. The Italian Milk Chocolate Truffles with Cereal Hazelnut Cream crunch a little. Smoother than either is the Italian Hazelnut Pralines (Crema Nocciole Tartufo), a dense cream center in a chocolate shell.

Set all three Monardo pieces side by side and you’ve got a small Italian hazelnut section already. An import grocer or specialty food buyer can add to it over a few orders if they’d rather not go big at once, and nobody has to commit to the whole range on day one.

Zaini and the Gianduia Format

Zaini sends two pieces that sit well beside the Monardo gianduiotto. The Cremino Layered Gianduia Chocolate Assortment alternates gianduia and cream, and people who know Italian candy spot it right away. The other is the Gianduiotto Hazelnut Chocolate in Gold Foil, a traditional ingot a lot like Monardo’s. Carry both brands and the display stays consistent while the flavors shift a little.

Narr from Sweden: Coated Hazelnut Mix

Narr Chocolate Hazelnut Mix is Swedish, and it’s a different animal from everything above. No filling, no paste. It’s whole hazelnuts in a thick chocolate coat, crunchier and less sweet than the Italian pralines, with more cocoa up front. We use it as the contrast piece. If a customer finds a cream praline too rich, this is usually where they end up.

Vergani and Mangini

Vergani’s Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Pralines are Italian and cover the dark end. The shell is less sweet than the milk chocolate pieces from Maitre Truffout and Monardo, so they suit people who don’t like sugary chocolate. Mangini Noccioletto Dark Chocolate Whole Hazelnut is also from Italy and it’s the plainest thing in the group, one hazelnut in one dark shell. Next to the fancier pralines and truffles it still holds up. If someone tells us they don’t want anything complicated, that’s the one we’d hand over.

Pack Format and Buyer Channels

Every SKU ships as loose bulk candy by the case. The lighter pralines weigh 0.44 lb a case, and the coated nuts and bigger truffles go up to 2 lb. There’s no minimum order.

Gift baskets take most of the gianduiotto and the Belgian gold truffles. Monardo’s foil pieces go there too. They photograph well and look expensive without extra wrapping. The Italian origin does a lot of the talking. A grocer with an Italian aisle might build around Zaini and Monardo, with Vergani next to them. Buffet and dessert-station operators like these as loose display pieces that keep their shape at room temperature. A convenience store with a European corner can use Maitre Truffout pralines as its good hazelnut item.

• Monardo Italian Gold Gianduiotto from Italy is the traditional Piedmontese piece in gold foil. It gifts well and reads as old-school Italian candy.
• Zaini Cremino Layered Gianduia Assortment from Italy is the multi-layer one. You won’t see this format outside Italian confectionery.
• Maitre Truffout Fancy Gold Hazelnut Truffles from Belgium are the dressed-up import. The gold finish does the selling.
• Maitre Truffout Pralines with Hazelnut Cream and Cereal Crunch from Italy bring some texture to a mixed praline tray, which most of the others don’t.
• Narr Chocolate Hazelnut Mix from Sweden is coated whole nuts. Crunchier than the rest of the group, with a Scandinavian story behind it.
• Vergani Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Cream Pralines from Italy are for buyers whose customers like things less sweet.
• Mangini Noccioletto Dark Chocolate Whole Hazelnut from Italy is the simple single-nut piece. Clean, classic.

Storage Guidance and Ordering Notes

Heat is hard on the cream-filled pieces. Leave them somewhere warm and the filling softens while the shell goes dull, so find a cool dry spot. Coated nuts like Narr’s handle it better. Shelf dates differ by product, so check each listing. Checkout is by secure card and approved accounts get account pricing. We ship within the US. The chocolate-with-hazelnut wholesale catalog has the full list. The full bulk candy assortment has more pralines and truffles to pair with it.

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