Maple Bonbons
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Author: Jennifer Status: published Published: Dec 11,2008 license cc-by-nc-nd tags: dessert, recipe, cooking, baking, Christmas, Christmas2006, Heritage Green, Longaberger bowl, maple, Longaberger, maple bonbons, bonbons,
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Share on TwitterA family favorite! I made these for my mother-in-law many years ago, and now she requests it every Christmas!
Maple Bonbons Recipe:
INGREDIENTS:
1. 2 sticks of creamed, salted butter (no substitutes!!!)
2. 3 1/2 cups of confectioner's sugar
3. 3 tablespoons of maple flavoring
4. 2 cups of chopped walnuts
5. 2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips
6. 1 cup of butterscotch chips
7. Waxed paper
8. Toothpicks
9. Candy sprinkles (optional)
10. Ziploc baggies (optional)
DIRECTIONS:
* Clean out enough space in your freezer to accommodate the freezing balls (insert naughty joke here...ba dum dum!)
* Soften the butter in the microwave. Cream together the butter, sugar, and maple flavoring until smooth. Stir in the walnuts. Shape the dough into 1-inch balls and place on a waxed paper-lined cookie sheet. Insert a toothpick into each ball (I should just call them "bonbons," shouldn't I?) and make sure that the toothpick goes all the way in/through. This will save you from getting your hands VERRRY chocolate-y! Put the candy sprinkes, if you're using them, into a Ziploc baggie. Insert bonbons into the Ziplocs, shake a few times to coat, and then return the bonbons to the cookie sheet. Freeze for several hours or, if desired, overnight.
* In a microwave, melt the butterscotch and semi-sweet chips. Stir to combine the chips. Dip the bonbons into the mix and return to the waxed paper. Return to the freezer (or refrigerator, if you'll be eating them sooner than later). Store uneaten bonbons in the refrigerator.
JEN NOTE: Trust me when I tell you to play the toothpick game with these. Do NOT do what I did and attempt to coat the frozen bonbons in the hot chocolate mixture yourself! Doing so uses much more chocolate than you've got, and you'll end up, as I did, with some poorly-coated chocolate. I simply ran out of chocolate!
