Recipe - Fruit-Nut Chocolate Bonbons

1 cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Ground ginger
2 teaspoon Cinnamon
One half cup Honey
One half cup Hot water (brandy may be
substituted for a few tbs
of water)
6 ounce Bittersweet chocolate,
chopped
2 tablespoon Oil
Three fourths cup Seedless raisins
2/3 cup Finely chopped walnuts
2 One half cup Cake meal
Sugar or finely chopped
nutmeats for garnish

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 teasized 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.