Bulk Hazelnut Butter for Chocolate and Confectionery Brands
JSS Almonds is a family-owned hazelnut butter manufacturer and supplier producing clean-label bulk batches for brands creating gianduja, chocolate fillings, spreads, pastries, and frozen desserts. Along with our full line of nut butters, we run hazelnut butter in batch sizes and packaging formats built around startups and emerging brands, with BRCGS AA+ food safety standing behind every run.
| 100% Pure Hazelnut Butter | Customizable Formulations | Flexible Batch Sizes and Packaging |
| One ingredient on the label, hazelnuts, with salt only if your formula calls for it. No fillers, seed oils, or additives. | Roast level, grind, salt, sweeteners, and fat content tuned to your fillings, spreads, and bases. | Flexible packaging options support small runs and large production, from jars to pails and drums. |
Where Our Hazelnut Butter Fits Best
Our hazelnut butter performs across confectionery and dessert applications, whether the roasted hazelnut carries the product or sits inside chocolate.
- Chocolate fillings and gianduja
- Hazelnut spreads and jarred retail products
- Pralines, truffles, and confectionery pastes
- Bakery and pastry production (croissant and danish fillings, creams, batters)
- Ice cream and gelato (swirls, variegates, bases)
- Bars and snack inclusions
Why Chocolate Makers Choose Hazelnut Butter
Hazelnut balances chocolate instead of competing with it. Roasting brings out a natural sweetness and a toasty depth with only a slight bitterness at the finish. In gianduja, fillings, and spreads, that sweetness offsets cocoa’s own bitterness without a heavy hand on added sugar. Hazelnuts also carry more oil than almonds, pistachios, or cashews, grinding into a fluid, glossy paste that blends into cocoa butter systems without graininess. For confectioners building a filled-bar line, hazelnut sits naturally beside pistachio paste as the second flavor the range needs.
How JSS Almonds Supports Emerging Food Brands
- MOQs sized for a pilot run. We take the orders larger processors won’t touch, letting you launch a SKU without warehousing six months of inventory.
- U.S.-grown, tariff-free supply. We source U.S.-grown hazelnuts and process every batch in California, keeping your pricing off the import cycle.
- BRCGS AA+ certified processing. Among the highest ratings in the industry, backed by HACCP, GMPs, SSOPs, and environmental monitoring.
- A peanut-free, tree-nut-only facility. No peanuts anywhere in the operation keeps your hazelnut butter allergen statement clean.
- One supplier across six tree nuts. Hazelnut, almond, pistachio, cashew, pecan, and walnut butters run through one certified facility and one audit trail.
- Hands-on product development. Our team works alongside your R&D through pilot, scale-up, and reformulation
Hazelnut Butter Processed to Your Specification
Hazelnuts arrive at our Bakersfield facility, where each lot is inspected and sorted before processing. From there the run follows your formula. Kernels are roasted to the profile you approved, from a light roast that keeps the paste pale for white chocolate and creams to a dark roast that holds its own inside dark chocolate, then milled to a fluid grind for depositors and gianduja bases or held slightly coarser for a spread. Salt, sweeteners, and fat content adjust to your target.
Bulk Hazelnut Butter Packaging That Scales With You
We offer a range of packaging options to suit your brand’s needs.
- Jars and pouches
- Case Pack: 6 jars (12 or 16 oz.)
- 2 gal. pail
- 5 gal. pail
- 450 lb. drum
- Pallet: 48 x 40 x 45 inches
If you need finished, retail-ready jars under your own brand, our private label program handles production and packaging to your specifications.
Hazelnut Butter FAQs
Can you customize hazelnut butter roast, texture, or ingredients?
We adjust roast, grind, salt, sweeteners, and fat content to match your application, then sample against your formula until it runs the way you need. From there, our team helps you weigh the decisions that set a SKU apart, from roast direction and texture to the story on the label.
What is the difference between hazelnut butter and hazelnut spread?
Hazelnut butter is ground hazelnuts and nothing else, or hazelnuts with salt. A hazelnut spread adds sugar, cocoa, and usually a fat to soften the texture, the format most shoppers know from the retail aisle. We manufacture the hazelnut butter base with salt and sweeteners formulated to your spec, and brands building a full spread take it from there on their own line.
Can you supply hazelnut butter for gianduja and filled chocolate bars?
We run hazelnut butter to the specs gianduja and filled bars demand: a fine, uniform grind, a viscosity that deposits cleanly at line temperature, and controlled oil separation so free oil does not migrate into the shell. Guidance on all three comes with every sample.
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What minimum order quantities do you offer for bulk hazelnut butter?
We keep MOQs low enough for product development and market entry, from R&D samples through first production runs. Order sizes flex upward from pilot runs into bulk hazelnut butter volumes in the same packaging formats you started with.
What shelf life should we plan for?
Plan on a best-by window of several months to a year for commercially packed hazelnut butter, with cool, stable storage doing the most to protect flavor. Roast level, packaging format, and storage temperature all move the number. Natural oil separation on the shelf is normal and stirs back in. During sampling, we help you set a realistic date for your specific product.
Can you produce retail-ready hazelnut butter or spread under my brand?
Our private label program takes hazelnut butter from your approved formula through finished, labeled jars under your brand, in case packs or full pallets ready for retail.
Let’s Craft Your Hazelnut Butter Together
Small brands get our full attention at every stage of a run, from the first sample through scale-up. Whether hazelnut anchors a single gianduja SKU or joins pistachio and almond across a filled-bar line, our family-owned California facility backs every order with BRCGS AA+ certification, hands-on R&D support, and order sizes matched to the stage you are in. Request a sample or a quote today, or call 661-328-5755 to talk through your formula with the team that will run it.
