These are crazy addicting once you start you can not stop eating them.

First you toast your nuts, caramelize them, then cover with milk chocolate and a layer of cocoa powder and confectioners sugar and that’s a hazelnut dragee. Delicious!

Recipe for Hazelnut Dragees

Ingredients:

190g hazelnuts, toasted

50g granulated sugar

20g unsalted butter

10g water

15g extra granulated sugar

225g milk chocolate

1/2 c.cocoa powder

1/2 c confectioners’ sugar

And let’s get cooking:

1.)Toast the nuts: Toast the hazelnuts in a 350F oven until lightly toasted. Keep warm in the oven. Combine the sugar, water, and corn syrup in a small saucepan. Cook the sugar syrup to 234F/115C.

2.)Add the toasted nuts and continue cooking until the sugar has crystallized then caramelized to a light golden color.

3.)Pour out onto a silpat or parchment. Sprinkle with granulated sugar and break apart into individual pieces. Cool completely.

4.)Put the nuts in a large bowl and place into the refrigerator.Add some milk chocolate and stir vigorously until the milk chocolate has set.

5.)Continue until the nuts have about 1/8″ coating of milk chocolate.Sprinkle with cocoa powder/confectioners’ sugar. Shake off the excess cocoa powder.

**You can do this almost with any kind of nut. For example when I use almonds I use dark chocolate and confectioners’ sugar**

You want more try watching this video on how I make Hazelnut Dragees