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A sphere engineered so its outside arrives before you've decided to surrender to its inside.
means A bite-sized confection, usually a soft or filled center (like fondant, ganache, or fruit) coated in chocolate or sugar.
from Straight from French, where 'bon' means 'good' — so 'bonbon' is literally 'good-good,' good said twice, the way small children double a word for emphasis. It entered English in the early 19th century carrying that nursery-talk charm intact, a sweet whose name is just delight stuttering.
- name origin
- French baby-talk doubling of bon, meaning good-good
- royal habit
- Louis XIV's court devoured them by the boxful
- enrobing
- Centers get bathed in flowing chocolate curtains
- liqueur trick
- Some hide liquid alcohol inside a sugar shell
- two meanings
- In French it means any sweet, not just chocolate
lindt lindor truffles — swiss chocolate confection with melting truffle center, sold globally since 1949
ferrero rocher — italian hazelnut wafer bonbon wrapped in gold foil, created 1925
godiva belgian pralines — belgian luxury chocolate bonbons founded in brussels 1926