Hazelnuts

Round, sweet nuts from the hazel tree, toasted and used in chocolate spreads, praline, cakes and cookies. Also called filberts.

Hazelnuts: A bowl of toasted whole hazelnuts with some papery skins rubbed off, a few hazelnuts still in their round shells
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Also called: filberts

Toasting hazelnuts at about 350°F (175°C) for 10 to 15 minutes brings out their flavor and loosens their papery skins, which can then be rubbed off in a towel. Hazelnut and chocolate is a classic pairing, as in gianduja and chocolate-hazelnut spread.

Ground hazelnuts are used in dacquoise, linzer cookies and nut cakes.

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Written by VanillaGoods in our own words from these sources. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.

  1. Hazelnuts (Q578307), Wikidata