Food & Recipes

Red Raspberry Bon Bons

Sweet and savory and rich all over

This recipe was actually a very fun one for me to create. With or without chocolate, it is always a treat for me to work with what is freshest. To combine the flavors of juicy red raspberries and earthy fresh thyme is wonderful. Dipping them in chocolate and sprinkling them with salt translates into great fun for everyone else.

Enjoy this fun and refreshing dessert after a meal of Pesto Pork Tenderloin and Garlic Mashed Potatoes.

cooking information

• Yield: 30-40 Bon Bons
• Prep Time: 20 minutes
• Cooking Time: 20 minutes

all ingredients

• 1 Bag Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
• 1/4 Cup Cream
• 1/2 Cup Butter
• 2 Cartons Fresh Raspberries
• 1 Bunch Fresh Thyme
• Salt

recipe instruction

1. Fill a little sauce pot a quarter of the way full of water. Place a glass or heat resistant mixing bowl over the top, creating a double boiler. Turn to medium low heat.

2. In the mixing bowl add your chocolate chips, butter and cream. Stir together until completely combined. Once it is melted, reduce to low heat.

3. Remove the fresh thyme from the stems. Place a few leaves of fresh thyme in the “well” of each fresh raspberry.

4. Drop the fresh raspberries in the melted chocolate and coat using a spoon. Remove from the chocolate and drop on a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper.

5. While the chocolate is sill hot, sprinkle each bon bon with kosher salt.

6. Once you are finished place the cookie sheet in the refrigerator.

7. Make sure to keep the bon bons cold. Serve and enjoy!

cooking tips

• For this recipe you want to make sure that the raspberries are firm. If the berries are mushy they will just disintegrate in hot melted chocolate.
• These can be made a couple days in advance and stored in a covered container.
• The thought is to experience the sour, sweet, salty, and earthy flavors.
• Make sure the bon bons are always cold though because if they get warm then they get stocky and ruined. Serve straight from the refrigerator.