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Fruit-Nut Chocolate Bonbons

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Ingredients:

  • 1 c Sugar
  • 1 ts Ground ginger
  • 2 ts Cinnamon
  • 1/2 c Honey
  • 1/2 c Hot water (brandy may be substituted for a few tbs of water)
  • 6 oz Bittersweet chocolate, chopped
  • 2 tb Oil
  • 3/4 c Seedless raisins
  • 2/3 c Finely chopped walnuts
  • 2 1/2 c Cake meal
  • Sugar or finely chopped nutmeats for garnish

Directions:

Combine the sugar, spices, honey and water in a 1 quart saucepan. Cook over low heat until the syrum forms a thread (232 degrees F on a candy thermometer). Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate and oil. Add the raisin, walnuts and cake meal. Blend thoroughly and quickly. Form into 1 inch balls and roll each in the sugar or nutmeats. Place the bonbons into individually tea-sized paper cups and chill until firm. Makes approx. 24.
 
Posted to rec.food.recipes by "Joel W./Mirjam D." <yoel@brachot.jct.ac.il> on Mar 16, 1994.