Wholesale Italian Chocolate Truffles

An Italian label on a truffle does half the selling for you, and shoppers know it. We carry chocolate truffles from two makers, Monardo and Maitre Truffout, eight items in bulk cases of 1.14 to 2 lb. Everything made in Italy is easy to find, and the rest of the bulk candy catalog is a click away.

Start with Monardo, since it has the most fillings of the two. Its Dark Chocolate Fondant Cream Truffles are the one we’d hand a new customer, because the shell is smooth and the fondant isn’t cloying and it finishes clean. If you’re sizing up a supplier, open a case of these and look at the shape first. Give one a snap. Then check the surface for bloom, which tells you more about how the case was stored than any spec sheet.

Monardo’s milk chocolate truffles head in four directions. The Milk Chocolate Truffles with Milk Cream and Cereal are soft in the middle with a bit of crunch, which is a nice surprise in a creamy piece. The Italian Milk Chocolate Truffles with Cacao Fondant Cream flip it around. Sweet shell outside. Dark fondant inside, so the bitter comes second. If somebody says milk chocolate is too plain for them, this is where we’d send them.

The Monardo Italian Chocolate Truffles with Coconut Filling are the odd one on the shelf, since coconut turns up in Italian truffles far less than hazelnut or cream. Somebody who loves coconut and chocolate will go straight for it. The Italian Milk Chocolate Truffles with Coffee Filling are the grown-up ones, coffee cream under a milk chocolate shell. We’d park them near an espresso machine, or tuck a few into a basket for a coffee drinker. After dinner on a plate works too.

Then there’s the Monardo Italian Milk Chocolate Truffles with Cereal Hazelnut Cream, which is the easy one. Hazelnut cream gets you close to gianduja, a flavor people tie to Italian sweets. The cereal adds crunch. Nobody really hates it. Drop it into a mixed assortment and I’d guess it empties first.

Maitre Truffout only has two here and neither one repeats Monardo. The Milk Chocolate Truffles with Hazelnut Filling are what most people picture when they hear the word truffle, honestly. Milk chocolate and hazelnut, done the European way. The Milk Chocolate Truffles with Hazelnut and Cereal keep that filling and put a crunch on top of it. Put the two next to each other and customers will taste both just to compare.

Gift shops and gift-basket makers take the biggest share of bulk Italian truffles. It’s an easy present to give, and the Italian origin lets them charge a bit more. A basket maker with a 1.14 to 2 lb case just scoops by weight and skips the counting. Specialty food shops and grocers stock truffles all year, though holiday gifting is when they fly out the door. Hotels put them on dessert stations. Restaurants plate them after dinner, and caterers fill mixed platters.

If you pack your own gift boxes or bags, loose truffles are what you want. A 1.14 to 2 lb case leaves portions and display layout up to you. Say you’re planning a custom box with dark fondant and coffee, with hazelnut cereal cream on the side. Just build it from the individual items, since there’s no mixed case you have to buy first.

Truffles are fussier than gummies or hard candy, and in our stockroom they get the cool corner. Cream-filled ones like a steady spot under 65 degrees Fahrenheit and they sulk around humidity or strong smells. Let the temperature swing up and down and the shells can get fat bloom. So plan where they’ll land before the case arrives. A 1.14 to 2 lb case turns over quickly, which helps keep stock fresh.

Anyone can order, retail or wholesale. There’s no minimum. Approved wholesale accounts get account pricing, and we ship within the US. Put all eight together and you’ve got a full Italian truffle section on its own. Monardo supplies dark fondant and milk cream cereal. Cacao fondant and coconut are Monardo’s as well, along with the coffee and the hazelnut cereal cream. Maitre Truffout supplies the plain hazelnut and the hazelnut cereal.

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