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
Directions
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.)
Photo: Vanilla Gelato Bites with Chocolate and Hazelnuts Recipe
















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By heather_6386614
Stanhope, NJ
on May 19, 2010
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I too used 3 bags of chips to get these to stick. As soon as any of the chocolate got into the chips...forget it. How did she make it look so easy on TV? Just not fair and i was using them tonight for a party. Now i am out of luck on a dessert.
By skcox13_12007522
Berthoud, 44
on July 23, 2009
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I did not have a problem with getting the chocolate to coat the gelato balls, but after the first two, the small amounts of melted gelato that got into the melted chocolate made the chocolate clump up and become very non-user-friendly. I ended up rolling the clumpy chocolate into balls, rolling them in the nuts and freezing them. Too bad, because the two gelato balls that did get made were delicious!
By tina.clapsaddle
Bryans Road, MD
on July 20, 2009
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I wasted two pints of gelato and two bags of chocolate on this recipe and am so utterly disgusted. The chocolate wouldn't stick to the gelato and the tiny bit of gelato that melted into the chocolate as I spun it through cause the chocolate to seize up and ruined it completely. The chocolate can't be used for anything at all now. DO NOT use this recipe!!!!!!!
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