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Recipe · By KineleVital

Homemade Ferrero Rocher–Style Balls

chocolatehazelnutno bake
Ingredients
8
Method
9 steps
Collected
2026-08-27
Dark chocolate hazelnut balls with a chopped-nut coating, including one cut open to reveal golden nougat and a crunchy centre.
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Ingredients

Hazelnut nougat

  • 280 g roasted hazelnuts
  • 3 tbsp maple syrup
  • 50 g almond flour
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • Pinch of salt

Crunchy centre and coating

  • 250 g dark chocolate (70% cocoa or higher)
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • 70 g roasted hazelnuts, chopped

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Method

  1. Roast the hazelnuts for 10 minutes at 175°C.
  2. While they are still warm, rub them in a kitchen towel to remove the skins.
  3. Blend the 280 g hazelnuts for 8–12 minutes, scraping down the sides as needed, until they form a smooth, runny butter.
  4. Add the maple syrup, vanilla, almond flour and salt. Blend again until the mixture has a soft nougat texture.
  5. Stir some of the chopped hazelnuts into a little melted chocolate. Drop small clusters onto baking paper and freeze until firm.
  6. Wrap each frozen cluster in hazelnut nougat, roll it into a ball and freeze for 20 minutes.
  7. Melt the remaining chocolate with the coconut oil and stir in the remaining chopped hazelnuts.
  8. Dip each ball into the coating.
  9. Freeze for 15 minutes, or until set.

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Sources & attribution

  • KineleVital, “A Ferrero Rocher Has 14 Ingredients. Mine Has 5 🍫” — YouTube Short
  • Quantities and detailed instructions were taken from the creator’s video description; the preparation sequence was checked against the video transcript.