Best 6 Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo Recipes

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Chocolate hazelnut tartufo is a tantalizing Italian dessert that tantalizes taste buds with its rich, creamy texture and decadently layered flavors. This indulgent treat combines the delectable taste of chocolate with the nutty aroma of hazelnuts, resulting in a symphony of flavors that leaves you craving more. Whether you're a seasoned pastry chef or a novice home baker, this guide will take you on a culinary journey as we explore the art of crafting the perfect chocolate hazelnut tartufo, ensuring your dessert is a delightful success.

Here are our top 6 tried and tested recipes!

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TARTUFO



Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo image

My variation on a delicious dessert we experienced in Rome this spring. Called tartufo because it resembles a truffle.

Provided by Katie Poppy

Categories     World Cuisine Recipes     European     Italian

Time P1DT4h40m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 cups whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
⅓ cup white sugar
4 egg yolks
⅓ cup white sugar
½ cup chocolate-hazelnut spread (such as Nutella®)
2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ounces fine quality bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
8 maraschino cherries
½ cup frozen whipped topping, thawed

Steps:

  • Combine milk, cream, and 1/3 cup sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat; stir until the sugar dissolves, about 3 to 5 minutes. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks and 1/3 cup sugar until the egg yolks are light in color, about 4 minutes. Stir 1/2 cup of the milk mixture into the egg yolks, then pour all of the egg mixture into the saucepan, stirring continuously. Cook, stirring continuously, until mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
  • Add the chocolate hazelnut spread, espresso powder, and vanilla, stirring until well combined. Pour through a mesh strainer into a bowl. Refrigerate several hours until cold.
  • Pour into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's directions. Transfer gelato into an airtight container and place in freezer until solid.
  • To make the tartufo: Scoop 4-ounce portions of gelato and form into balls using your hands. Poke a hole in each ball and place 1 cherry in each, cover with gelato, and place on a baking sheet. Roll gelato balls in the grated chocolate until coated and return to the freezer until ready to serve. Serve with whipped topping, if desired.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 393.7 calories, Carbohydrate 39.4 g, Cholesterol 149.7 mg, Fat 24.4 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 5.8 g, SaturatedFat 12.5 g, Sodium 56.7 mg, Sugar 33.8 g

CHOCOLATE-HAZELNUT TART



Chocolate-Hazelnut Tart image

Provided by Giada De Laurentiis

Categories     dessert

Time 1h15m

Yield 4 to 6 servings

Number Of Ingredients 10

1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups peeled, chopped, and toasted hazelnuts
8 ounces bittersweet chocolate chips (about 1 cup)
1 cup corn syrup
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 store bought frozen pie crust, defrosted

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
  • In a large bowl, mix together the sugar and the flour. Add the eggs, hazelnuts, chocolate chips, corn syrup, butter, vanilla, and salt. Stir well. Pour the mixture into the pie crust. Bake for 1 hour.
  • Cool the tart for at least 30 minutes before serving.

CHOCOLATE-HAZELNUT TURNOVERS



Chocolate-Hazelnut Turnovers image

Provided by Bobby Flay

Categories     dessert

Time 45m

Yield 4 servings

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed according to package directions
All-purpose flour, for dusting counter
1 cup semisweet mini chocolate chips
1/2 cup good-quality chocolate-hazelnut spread
1 egg, beaten with 1 teaspoon water

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Roll out the puff pastry on a lightly floured work surface to make a 12-inch square. Using a chef's knife or pizza cutter, cut into four equal squares. Brush two edges of each square with egg wash.
  • Stir the chocolate chips into the chocolate-hazelnut spread, then divide among the squares, landing it in the centers. Fold the pastry over to make triangles, and press the edges to seal. Brush the tops of turnovers with more egg wash.
  • Transfer the turnovers to the prepared baking sheet. Bake until the pastry is golden brown and the chocolate has melted, about 15 minutes. Cool on a baking rack for 10 minutes. Serve warm.

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TART



Chocolate Hazelnut Tart image

Categories     Milk/Cream     Food Processor     Chocolate     Nut     Dessert     Bake     Chill     Hazelnut     Gourmet     Kidney Friendly     Vegetarian     Pescatarian     Peanut Free     Soy Free     Kosher

Yield Makes 10 servings

Number Of Ingredients 17

For tart shell
1/2 cup hazelnuts, toasted and any loose skins rubbed off in a kitchen towel, then cooled completely
1 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 stick (1/4 cup) cold unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 large egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
For chocolate filling
7 ounces semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
1/2 cup whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup crème fraîche
Special equipment: a 9- by 1-inch fluted round tart pan with removable bottom; pie weights or raw rice

Steps:

  • Make tart shell:
  • Preheat oven to 350°F.
  • Pulse hazelnuts with flour, sugar, and salt in a food processor until finely ground (be careful not to grind to a paste), then add butter and pulse until most of mixture resembles coarse meal with some roughly pea-size butter lumps. Add egg and vanilla and pulse just until mixture begins to clump.
  • Press dough evenly over bottom and up side of tart pan and chill 10 minutes. Line tart shell with foil and fill with pie weights. Bake in middle of oven until pale golden along rim, about 15 minutes. Carefully remove foil and weights and bake shell until bottom and side are golden, about 10 minutes more. Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes.
  • Reduce oven temperature to 325°F.
  • Make filling while shell cools:
  • Put chopped chocolate in a bowl. Bring milk, sugar, and salt to a boil in a 1-quart saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, then pour milk over chocolate in bowl and let stand until chocolate is melted, about 1 minute. Whisk until smooth, then whisk in yolks and vanilla. Whisk in crème fraîche and pour into crust.
  • Bake tart in middle of oven until just set, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool completely in pan on rack. Chill until firm, at least 1 hour, then bring to room temperature before serving.

HAZELNUT TARTUFFO



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Although originally made by surrounding a sour cherry with chocolate ice cream, then encrusting it with a chocolate shell, the variations on tartuffo are as myriad as they are on a sundae -- the ice cream can be any flavor and so can the shell. You can freeze coconut ice cream or strawberry or Burpled Rumple; bury a fruit or a nut inside or not; helmet it with dark or white chocolate or liquefied lemon. As long as it's a globe and cold and the inside is softer than the out, it's tartuffo.

Provided by Jonathan Reynolds

Categories     dessert

Time 9h

Yield 5 servings

Number Of Ingredients 5

1 quart Ciao Bella hazelnut biscotti gelato
5 brandied Italian sour cherries (amarena), drained
1/2 cup chopped semiweet chocolate or chocolate chips
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup ground skinned and roasted hazelnuts

Steps:

  • At least a day ahead of serving, shape the gelato into balls by arranging 5 squares of plastic wrap on a countertop and placing a portion of the gelato in the center of each. Bring the wrap around each and twist together to enclose. Mold each into a ball (the shape doesn't have to be perfect at this point), unwrap and push a cherry into each center. Rewrap. Place the balls on a baking sheet and freeze for at least 6 hours, rounding out the shape for the first hour. Remove plastic wrap from balls after about 2 hours.
  • For the ganache coating, melt the chocolate in the top of a double boiler over simmering water and whisk in 1/2 cup heavy cream until completely smooth. Remove from the heat and cool completely. (Do not refrigerate.) The mixture should be about 70 degrees and will be thick enough to make a ribbon on itself when the whisk is lifted.
  • Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. Working with one ball at a time, dip into the ganache to coat. Immediately sprinkle with some hazelnuts. Freeze 2 hours to harden and then store in a covered container in freezer until ready to serve.
  • To serve, warm the remaining 1/4 cup of heavy cream and whisk into remaining ganache. Add the remaining hazelnuts. Serve as a sauce for tartuffo.

Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 775, UnsaturatedFat 25 grams, Carbohydrate 87 grams, Fat 45 grams, Fiber 6 grams, Protein 11 grams, SaturatedFat 16 grams, Sodium 548 milligrams, Sugar 51 grams, TransFat 0 grams

CHOCOLATE HAZELNUT TARTUFO



Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo image

My variation on a delicious dessert we experienced in Rome this spring. Called tartufo because it resembles a truffle.

Provided by Katie Poppy

Categories     Italian Recipes

Time P1DT4h40m

Yield 8

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 cups whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
⅓ cup white sugar
4 egg yolks
⅓ cup white sugar
½ cup chocolate-hazelnut spread (such as Nutella®)
2 tablespoons instant espresso powder
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
3 ounces fine quality bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped
8 maraschino cherries
½ cup frozen whipped topping, thawed

Steps:

  • Combine milk, cream, and 1/3 cup sugar in a medium saucepan over medium heat; stir until the sugar dissolves, about 3 to 5 minutes. In a separate bowl, beat egg yolks and 1/3 cup sugar until the egg yolks are light in color, about 4 minutes. Stir 1/2 cup of the milk mixture into the egg yolks, then pour all of the egg mixture into the saucepan, stirring continuously. Cook, stirring continuously, until mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a metal spoon, 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from heat.
  • Add the chocolate hazelnut spread, espresso powder, and vanilla, stirring until well combined. Pour through a mesh strainer into a bowl. Refrigerate several hours until cold.
  • Pour into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's directions. Transfer gelato into an airtight container and place in freezer until solid.
  • To make the tartufo: Scoop 4-ounce portions of gelato and form into balls using your hands. Poke a hole in each ball and place 1 cherry in each, cover with gelato, and place on a baking sheet. Roll gelato balls in the grated chocolate until coated and return to the freezer until ready to serve. Serve with whipped topping, if desired.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 393.7 calories, Carbohydrate 39.4 g, Cholesterol 149.7 mg, Fat 24.4 g, Fiber 0.9 g, Protein 5.8 g, SaturatedFat 12.5 g, Sodium 56.7 mg, Sugar 33.8 g

Tips:

  • To make the perfect chocolate shell, temper your chocolate properly. This will give it a shiny finish and a crisp snap.
  • If you don't have a candy thermometer, you can check the temperature of the chocolate by dropping a small amount into a glass of cold water. If it hardens immediately, it's ready to use.
  • Be careful not to overfill the chocolate molds. You want the truffles to be about 3/4 full so that there's room for the hazelnut filling.
  • When you're dipping the truffles, use a fork to gently lower them into the chocolate. This will help to prevent them from breaking.
  • To get the truffles out of the molds, place them in the freezer for a few minutes. This will make them easier to remove.
  • Store the truffles in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Conclusion:

Chocolate Hazelnut Tartufo is a delicious and elegant dessert that is perfect for any occasion. With its rich chocolate flavor, creamy hazelnut filling, and crunchy outer shell, it's sure to be a hit with everyone who tries it. So next time you're looking for a special treat, give this recipe a try. You won't be disappointed!

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