Quick and irresistibly chocolatey! These chocolate nut clusters combine glazed nuts, chewy dried fruit, and rich chocolate in mini paper cups — perfect for gifting, holiday treats, or satisfying your chocolate cravings anytime.
Chocolate Fruit & Nut Clusters (Chocolate Nut Clusters!) 🍫🥜
These chocolate nut clusters are a chocolatey treat that’s quick to make and endlessly customizable. Made with your favorite nuts and dried fruit, they’re perfect for snacking, gifting, or adding to a dessert platter.
Whether you call them chocolate fruit and nut clusters or chocolate nut clusters, these little bites are always a crowd-pleaser, and the best part? They require just a few ingredients and minimal effort. Using mini paper cups makes them neat, easy to serve, and simple to store.
✨ Why You’ll Love These Chocolate Nut Clusters
- Quick & Easy: Melt, mix, spoon, and set - done in minutes.
- Customizable: Use your favorite nuts and dried fruit.
- Neat & Tidy: Mini paper cups make serving and storing simple.
- No-Bake Recipe: Perfect for when you want a sweet treat without heating up the kitchen.
- Crowd-Pleaser: Great for parties, gifting, or simple snacking.
🍫 What Are Chocolate Nut Clusters?
Chocolate nut clusters are simple treats made by coating nuts (and sometimes dried fruit) in melted chocolate. They’re a no-bake dessert that’s perfect for holidays, snacks, or gift-giving.
You can use any combination of nuts and dried fruit you like. The chocolate binds everything together in rich, glossy clusters that set beautifully in little cups.
📝 Ingredients & Notes
- Pistachios (or nuts of choice): Coarsely chopped and lightly glazed with maple syrup, coconut oil, and a pinch of salt for extra flavor and crunch.
- Chocolate: Use good-quality dark chocolate, finely chopped. You can melt it in a double boiler or microwave.
- Dried fruit: White mulberries add sweetness and texture, but any dried fruit of your choice works beautifully.
- Fleur de sel: A pinch sprinkled on top elevates the flavor and adds a finishing touch.
- Mini paper cups: Makes forming, serving, and storing clusters much easier.
Notes:
Using mini paper cups ensures neat clusters and easy presentation for gifting or parties.
You can customize these chocolate nut clusters with any nuts or dried fruit you like.
The nuts are glazed briefly in maple syrup and coconut oil, giving the clusters a shiny, flavorful coating but you can you plain nuts of you prefer.
👩🍳 Instructions
Prep Mini Cups
- Place mini paper cups on a tray.
Prepare the Nuts
- Line a tray with parchment paper.
- Heat the pistachios (or nuts of choice) with maple syrup, coconut oil, and a pinch of salt in a small skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly until the syrup reduces and coats the nuts.
- Remove from heat and pour the glazed nuts onto the prepared parchment. Let cool completely, then break into pieces.
Make the Chocolate Clusters
- Melt half of the chocolate in a heat-safe bowl over simmering water or in the microwave in short intervals, stirring until just melted.
- Let cool 2–3 minutes, then stir in the remaining chocolate until fully melted. Cool another 2–3 minutes.
- Mix in half of the glazed nuts and dried fruit.
Assemble Clusters
- Using a teaspoon, drop the chocolate mixture into the mini paper cups.
- Top with remaining nuts and dried fruit and a pinch of fleur de sel.
- Refrigerate until chocolate is set, about 30 minutes.
Storage
- Store clusters in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.
💡 Tips for Perfect Chocolate Nut Clusters
- Don’t overheat chocolate — it can seize or become grainy.
- Customize: Mix and match nuts, dried fruits, and even seeds like pumpkin or sunflower for variety.
🎉 Wrap-Up
These chocolate nut clusters are the perfect combination of chocolate, nuts, and dried fruit. Mini paper cups make them neat, giftable, and simple to serve. Quick to make, customizable, and always a hit, they’re a simple way to satisfy chocolate cravings or wow friends and family with a simple homemade treat.
Whether you’re making them for the holidays or just because, these chocolate fruit and nut clusters (or chocolate nut clusters) are a snack you’ll come back to again and again.
More Homemade Chocolates:
Chocolate Nut Clusters
Dark, rich and studded with caramelized fruit and nuts, these chocolate nut clusters make for a nice after dinner treat.
Ingredients
- ¼ cup/ 28g raw pistachios (or nuts of choice), coarsely chopped
- 1 ½ Tablespoons/22g maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon/5 g coconut oil
- Pinch of sea salt
- 8oz/225g good quality dark chocolate, finely chopped
- ¼ cup/28g dried white mulberries (or dried fruit of choice)
- Fleur de sel for finishing chocolates
- mini paper cups
Instructions
- Place 12 mini paper cups on a tray.
To prepare the pistachios:
- Prepare a piece of parchment on a tray.
- Heat the pistachios, maple syrup, coconut oil and a pinch of salt in a small skillet over medium heat, stirring constantly until the syrup reduces and coats the nuts (about 2 minutes).
- Remove from heat and pour out over the prepared parchment.
- Let cool completely and break into pieces.
To makes the chocolate clusters:
- Either place half the chocolate in a bowl sitting over a saucepan of just boiled water and allow the chocolate to melt slowly stirring occasionally, or place half the chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl and on high in 20 seconds intervals, stirring and repeating until chocolate just melts.
- Let cool for 2-3 minutes then stir in the remaining chocolate and stir gently until melted. Cool another 2-3 minutes and mix in half of the glazed pistachios and dried mulberries.
- Immediately drop using a teaspoon into the paper cups. Top with remaining pistachios, mulberries and a pinch of salt. Refrigerate until chocolate is set (about 30 minutes).
- Chocolate clusters can be stored in an airtight container.
Notes
Variations:
Use nut and dried fruit of your choice.
Use chocolate of your choice.
Storage:
Store chocolates in an airtight container at room temperature.
Dietary Info:
Gluten-Free, Grain-Free, Vegetarian, Vegan, Dairy-Free, Egg-Free, Paleo
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 98Total Fat: 6gSaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 20mgCarbohydrates: 11gFiber: 1gSugar: 9gProtein: 1g
Nutritional information for recipes contained on this website, such as calories, fat, carbs, etc. are only estimates and are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Sylvie Shirazi is the recipe developer and food photographer behind Gourmande in the Kitchen. For the last 10 years she's been making eating more healthfully easy and accessible with gluten-free, grain-free, paleo and vegan recipes that are free from processed ingredients.
Brenda @ a farmgirl's dabbles says
Mulberries? I don't think I've ever tried them. What a beauty of a sweet little treat. I love dark chocolate mixed with salty nuts and dried fruits.
Renee Kohley says
These looks like just perfection! Salty and sweet - my kind of dessert! I am going to look out for some mulberries 🙂
Brianna Hobbs says
Such beautiful photos, and delicious looking chocolate clusters. I've never used dried mulberries before, I'll have to find some!
Jeanine says
Wow! Those are absolutely gorgeous! I know they'd be a hit here, we have some pistachio loves in the house!
Elle @ Only Taste Matters says
So easy but so decadent! Pinned!
Brian @ A Thought For Food says
I just did a google search for mulberries because while I know I've heard of them, I'm not sure I've ever seen them in real life. There are, in fact, mulberry trees in New England.... I'll have to look out for them. I love the look of these clusters. Great for serving to dinner guests at the end of a big holiday meal.
Sylvie says
Try to find some fresh ones if you can then, they are even better!
Tessa@TessaDomesticDiva says
These are beautiful!! I love mulberries, and combining with the pistachios, I am pinning these to try!
Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine says
Nothing I don't love! Mulberries, pistachios, and of course chocolate!