Food Network: Vanilla Gelato Bites with Chocolate and Hazelnuts

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Vanilla Gelato Bites with Chocolate and Hazelnuts
Recipe courtesy Giada De Laurentiis

Ingredients
1 pint vanilla gelato or ice cream
1 (12-ounce) bag chocolate chips (about 2 cups)
1 cup finely chopped toasted hazelnuts (about 5 ounces)

Special equipment: bite-sized ice cream scoop and wooden popsticks

Instructions
Place a small tray or a plate in the freezer. Remove
the gelato from the freezer to soften, about 5 minutes. Remove the chilled tray
from the freezer. Scoop out 16 bite-sized balls of gelato and place in the freezer
for at least 1 hour. Remove from the freezer and quickly insert a wooden popstick

into each gelato ball. Return them to the freezer for at least 1 hour.

When the gelato balls have frozen with their sticks in place, place the chocolate
in a double-boiler over very gently simmering water until melted. Next to the pot
of chocolate, place the toasted, chopped hazelnuts in a shallow bowl.

Remove the gelato balls from the freezer, 4 at a time. Working quickly, hold the
gelato ball by the stick and dip into the melted chocolate, then dredge it in the
hazelnuts. Return them to the freezer and continue with 4 more gelato balls, until
all the gelato balls are covered in chocolate and nuts. Freeze the
chocolate-and-nut-covered gelato for at least 1 hour.

These are very fun, festive, and tasty. The ice cream scoop I used is a number 40
(holds 1 tablespoon, is 1 1/2 inches in diameter.)