Certain ingredients are meant to travel together.

Certain ingredients are meant to travel together. Strawberries and cream. Lemon and limes. Chocolate and hazelnuts. Within the confectionery world, hazelnuts--often referr to as the aristocratic nut of choice--have held a special place with candymakers around the world for centuries.

Be it gianduiotti, the traditional Italian chocolate/hazelnut confection that's shaped like a triangle, Basler Brunsli, chocolate, hazelnut and almond balls made in Basel, Switzerland for Christmas, or just plain hazelnut toffee, a comforting combination of pantry crisp toffee, hazelnut meats and chocolate, the sum of two units work harmoniously in sweets, delivering taste and contexture

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