Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, christmas bon bons. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Christmas crackers are festive table decorations that make a snapping sound when pulled open, and often contain a small gift and a joke. They are part of Christmas celebrations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Commonwealth countries such as Australia (where they are sometimes known as bon-bons), Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. Christmas bon bons a rich chocolatey treat that you can make during this festive season. Bon bons are traditionally made using christmas pudding but you can replace it with chocolate cake too, yes that's what I did.
Christmas Bon Bons is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Christmas Bon Bons is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook christmas bon bons using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Christmas Bon Bons:
- Make ready 1 cup butter softened
- Make ready 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- Get 1/4 tsp salt
- Take 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Make ready 3 cups flour
- Take 1 jar marashino cherries
- Get 1 1/2 tsp butter melted
- Take 1 egg white
- Make ready I tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- Prepare Food coloring (if desired)
Grandmama used to make these bon-bons every Christmas. That was back in the day when coffee pretty much always came in tin cans, at least the kind my family drank. Grandmama would save her coffee cans all year long so she could use them to put her bon bons in. As Christmas got close, Grandmama and her mother would set up a bon bon work station.
Steps to make Christmas Bon Bons:
- This is a two part recipe. The first six ingredients are for the cookies themselves. The remaining four make the holiday cookie sauce (frosting) that goes on the top.
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Beat softened butter in a mixing bowl until it is light and fluffy.
- Slowly add vanilla, salt, and powdered sugar until blended well.
- Slowly add flour until blended well.
- Use 1 heaping tbsp of this dough to wrap around a cherry and form into a ball. Place on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Repeat step six until all of the cherries are used. Bake at 350° approximately 12-15 minutes.
- Pull from oven and allow to cool. As the cookies are cooling down, you can make the holiday cookie sauce.
- In a small bowl, mix butter, vanilla, and egg white until well blended.
- Slowly add powdered sugar and blend well.
- Add food coloring if desired. (I usually make two batches of holiday cookie sauce in order to use multiple colors. But plain white looks nice too)
- Once the cookies are cooled down, dip the tops of the cookies into the sauce.
- Allow frosting to dry. Then transport the cookies to a covered container.
Grandmama would save her coffee cans all year long so she could use them to put her bon bons in. As Christmas got close, Grandmama and her mother would set up a bon bon work station. Crackers (Bon Bons) Christmas Crackers are a beautiful way to decorate your Christmas table. Also know as Bon Bons, they make the perfect companion for your Christmas celebration and festive table setting. Choose from our extensive range of Christmas crackers in traditional (red, gold and silver crackers) and modern colours.
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