Christmas Bonbons With Dates And Walnuts
Christmas Bonbons With Dates And Walnuts - If you’re looking for some quick Christmassy dessert for the weekend, you can definitely steal the show with these. They are a lot easier to make than they look, and that’s a bonus.
Servings: 20 bonbons
Ingredients
- 250 g dried, pitted dates
- 100 g ground walnuts or ground almond but then it's not a walnut snack
- 20 pieces glacé cherries (same number as bonbons)
- 2 heaped tsp maca powder optional
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 200 g white chocolate
- choice of sprinkles to decorate
Instructions
- With your food processor whizz the dates until they form a thick paste, sort of like a dough. Add the grounded walnuts and the maca powder by kneading them into your date-paste. When ready, start forming little balls with your fingers. Take a bit of a mixture and squash it between your fingers to get a little square. Put a glacé cherry in the middle of it and fold the sides. Make it smooth and even by rolling it around between your palms. You should be getting 20-22 little balls.
- Melt the chocolates in a heat proof dish above hot water (not boiling water though, keep the heat very low). Place your bonbons into the melted chocolate and cover them well. I found, that a simple fork works the best for this. Place them on a dry, smooth surface like a sheet of baking paper. Sprinkle your choice of decoration on the top of them. The best, if you could put them in the fridge for a few hours. The whole process should take you only an hour. Enjoy.
