Chocolate Hazelnut Crunch

The taste of hazelnuts was one of my childhood revelations. My mother and grandfather were allergic to them, so we never had hazelnuts or nutella around the house. But the moment I tried my first chocolate-hazelnut flavor combination, I was hooked.



I admit I may have gotten carried away making this batch. I poured a whole Dean & Deluca bag of hazelnuts into the mixture, half of them were finely chopped, half of them in big chunks. I figure the nuts provide protein, and therefore this is a healthy flavor!