Hazelnut Valrhona praline paste has sweet vanilla and caramel flavors with strong notes of almond and hazelnut. With 60% nut content, it is no wonder the rich earthy flavors of almond and hazelnut come through so strongly. Valrhona uses only the best ingredients in its products, sourcing Valencia Almonds from Spain and Roman Hazelnuts from Italy for its praline paste. During production, strong tastes are achieved through long nut roasting times and extended caramel cooking times.
Though many professional chefs reach for pecan pralines, consider substituting Hazelnut Valrhona Praline Paste in your next recipe. It can be used in ice cream, cake, chocolates, marbling, and pastry fillings. Pairs well with amaretto, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, caramel, and other nut flavors.
Valrhona praline paste is kosher, and made in France using sustainable sourced products. For best freshness use within 12 months.
Since 1922 Valrhona has crafted unique chocolates with complex balanced flavors. Originally created for professional pastry chefs, Valrhona has continued to maintain high quality standards for sourcing and production. Shop our collection of Valrhona online products today!
Ingredients: Hazelnuts from Italy 60%, sugar, natural vanilla extract.Made in a facility that uses milk. This product may contain traces of egg, soy proteins and gluten.
Storage: Keep in a dry and cool place.
Availability: Usually ships within 1
business days. Product is non-perishable and can ship via Ground service.
Product Questions And Answers
Q: can we freeze the hazelnut paste?
A: Yes. Hazelnut paste can be frozen and defrosted. Best if frozen in several containers for use as needed.
Q: We were donated a bag of this product Valrhona Praline Noisette Hazelnut I work at a summer camp with children how could I use this product here
A: This paste can be used in ice cream preparations, cakes, chocolates, in fillings (pastries, chocolate, crepes, etc.)
Q: Would this product work well for a crepe filling ?thank you
A: This is a product that is used for filling, so it should work for crepes as well.
FAQs
Ingredients: Hazelnuts from Italy 60%, sugar, natural vanilla extract. Made in a facility that uses milk. This product may contain traces of egg, soy proteins and gluten. Storage: Keep in a dry and cool place.
What does hazelnut praline taste like? ›
You can expect a pleasantly sweet taste with an abundance of fruity notes and mild toasted hints. Callebaut® Hazelnut Praline is just perfect for mixing with chocolate to create the filling of your moulded pralines and tablets.
What's the difference between nougat and praline? ›
Early pralines were whole almonds individually coated in caramelized sugar, as opposed to dark nougat, where a sheet of caramelized sugar covers many nuts.
What does praline taste like? ›
What Is the Taste of Praline? Pralines are a sweet, creamy and nutty confection that tastes like caramelized nuts with a soft, fudgy texture.
What is special about Valrhona chocolate? ›
Valrhona is a leader in the chocolate production industry because they understand every aspect of chocolate. From growing to refining, they have experts working in every stage of production. They own and operate the plantations in Venezuela and the Domminican Republic, where their cocoa beans are grown.
What does praline consist of? ›
praline, in French confectionery, a cooked mixture of sugar, nuts, and vanilla, often ground to a paste for use as a pastry or candy filling, analogous to marzipan; also, a sugar-coated almond or other nutmeat.
What the heck is a praline? ›
Praline (nut confection), a caramelised sugar heated to 160°C and combined with a roasted nut combination. Commonly made with sugar, corn syrup, milk, butter, and nut halves. Chocolate praline, chocolates with a soft filling.
What's the difference between chocolate and praline? ›
Chocolate is a solid or semi-solid state of matter that is made from cacao beans. Pralines are confections that are made with a thin shell of chocolate encasing a variety of fillings.
Why is my praline bitter? ›
Just make sure you buy your nuts raw and not already roasted. The main reason for that is that we will cook the nuts in a pan for 10-15 min. If you do this with roasted nuts, they will end up being over-roasted and your praline will taste very bitter.
Is nougat just marshmallow? ›
Nougat is a confection made with sugar or honey that's cooked and then whipped with egg whites to aerate it. It often contains almonds or other nuts, candied fruits and chocolate, although it can be left plain. Nougat can be soft and tender like marshmallow but is more often dense and very chewy.
Even though praline has a caramel-like flavor and scent, it should in no way resemble caramel sauce or soft chewy caramel. The low fat content is very different than in its cousin caramel.
What type of chocolate is praline? ›
Praliné is the result of a complex process: hazelnuts or almonds are roasted, before water and sugar are added. A kind of nougatine is created; it's then crushed and mixed to achieve a smooth, liquid texture. The chocolatier then adds cocoa butter to form the praliné needed to make the praliné chocolate.
Who makes the best pralines? ›
Loretta's New Orleans Authentic Pralines
Loretta's are the best pralines. They are sweet, the pecans are huge, and they have the perfect texture that rides a line between lusciously creamy and pleasantly grainy.
Why is it called praline? ›
The Praline is named after César duc de Choiseul, comte du Plessis-Praslin, a French diplomat. No one is really sure who the original inventor of the praline is, but many believe it was Plessis-Praslin's personal chef Clement Lassagne. The first pralines were made with a combination of caramel and almonds.
What is a interesting fact about pralines? ›
In Louisiana, especially New Orleans, the name praline applies to candies made with pecans in a coating of brown sugar sold by Creole women known as pralinières. Even before the Civil War and Emancipation, pralines were an early entrepreneurial vehicle for free women of color in New Orleans.
What are the ingredients in Valrhona chocolate? ›
Ingredients list: cocoa beans, sweetening agent: maltitol, cocoa butter, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin, natural vanilla extract. Excess consumption can have a laxative effect. Milk (Made in a facility that uses milk).
What is Valrhona chocolate made of? ›
Valrhona milk chocolate contains the following ingredients: cocoa solids (specifically cocoa butter and cocoa paste) from selected cocoa beans - this makes up at least 30% of the final product.
What are the ingredients in Valrhona Gianduja? ›
Valrhona - Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Gianduja 34% - 6.6 lb
- Composition: Cocoa 28% (min), Milk 3%, Hazelnuts 33%, Sugar 33%, Fat 41%
- Storage Conditions: Dry and cool (68 - 72F, 20 - 22C); keep out of direct sunlight and sealed air-tight after opening.
Suitable for vegetarians and coeliacs. Ingredients: HAZELNUTS (50%), Sugar, SOYA Lecithin.
