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Why You’ll Love My Recipe

These hazelnut infused chocolate truffles will look gorgeous on your snack plates this holiday season! They’re easy to make and perfect for batch freezing in advance.

Nothing melts in your mouth more than hazelnut truffles with real Frangelico liqueur! These delicious chocolate truffles are simple to make and impressive to look at. For some other chocolate treats, try these Easy Chocolate Truffles or The Best Chocolate Rum Balls Recipe.

Reader Review

I made this a few days ago, but I used fat free cream as that’s what I had. Came out too soft, like a mousse. Kept in the fridge for day, ate some with my ice cream (good), then I mixed it up with crushed pecans, rolled in a disc, added a whole roasted hazelnut in the center, then rolled it into a ball shape and rolled in in crushed hazelnuts. OMG!!! Better than Ferrero Rocher. Winner Winner! All I’m missing is the gold foil wrapper. PS, used thin vinyl gloves and rolling wasn’t as messy.

– Julie Scriver

Karlynn’s Recipe Notes

Skill Level: This recipe is inevitably messy, but very easy.
Total Time: Making the mixture for these truffles will take you about 10 minutes. The chilling time and assembly process will take a few hours, so get started early.
Variations: You can play with different nuts for this recipe. Try crushed almonds and almond extract, or coconut extract and shredded coconut. Use some colourful sprinkles instead of (or along with) the nuts.
Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a small pot, a medium glass bowl, a small plate or bowl, a whisk, some wax paper or parchment paper, and a teaspoon. Some vinyl or latex gloves are also great to have around to keep your hands a bit cleaner.

What You’ll Need For Ingredients

Chocolate: This recipe calls for semi-sweet chocolate, but you can use dark chocolate, milk chocolate, or whichever other variety you like. You can even double down on the hazelnut flavour by using chocolate that has hazelnuts in it.

Cream: You’ll need whipping cream or heavy cream to mix with the melted chocolate for this classic ganache mixture.

Frangelico: This sweet and hazelnut liqueur isn’t absolutely mandatory, but adds depth and complexity to the flavour of these truffles. Consider using some hazelnut extract if you choose to skip the Frangelico.

Hazelnuts: You can buy these pre-chopped or blitz some whole ones in a food processor. Either way, you’ll want them to be quite fine so that they coat the exterior of the truffles nicely.

How To Make Hazelnut Truffles

This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.

Put chopped up chocolate in a medium glass bowl.
Bring the whipping cream and butter to a boil in a small pot over medium heat, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and pour over the chocolate.
Whisk until all of the chocolate is melted and smooth. Mix in Frangelico.
Cover and refrigerate the chocolate mixture for at least a few hours, preferably overnight.
Form truffles with rounded teaspoonfuls of chilled chocolate mixture. Roll the balls in the hazelnuts and reshape as needed.

Hazelnut Truffles on a brown dessert bowl

Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Hazelnut Truffles

Chill Out: The biggest trick to truffle making is keeping everything as cold as possible. Keep the chocolate mixture in the fridge until the last minute, use a cold spoon to scoop. Handle the truffles as little as possible or the heat from your hands will still start to melt the chocolate. If you can, keep your work area cold too. Once the truffles are mostly formed and coated in the hazelnuts, they’ll be less sticky and easier to shape.

Glove Up: Seriously, it’s impossible to avoid getting messy with truffles. You can reduce some of the mess and keep your hands a bit cleaner by wearing some gloves. Rubber, plastic, vinyl, whatever works for you. You can make these with your bare hands too, but gloves do help.

Hazelnut Truffles on a large plate, green tablecloth chocolate squares and finely chopped roasted hazelnuts on its side

Storage Instructions

You can refrigerate these truffles in a sealed container, with parchment or wax paper between the layers, for several days. They also freeze very well and can be frozen for months. You don’t even have to defrost them to eat them.

More Delicious Chocolate Recipes

Looking for more luxurious and rich chocolate treats?

Try Fantasy Fudge for your next party, or make a batch of Chocolate Fudge Frosting to slather on your favourite cake.

Enjoy some warm Hot Chocolate Marshmallow Brownies after sledding.

Easy Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Recipe will satisfy both your sweet tooth and your craving for peanut butter.

There you go. Decadent chocolate truffles that are delicious, easy to make, and perfect for freezing. Try them out and let me know what you think.

Happy Baking (chilling)!

Karlynn