Name: To Dip Bonbons
Ingredients: fondant; coloring paste; oiled paper

To Dip Bonbons

Ingredients

fondant
coloring paste
oiled paper

Directions

Shape the centers as desired and allow them to dry.
Melt fondant in a saucepan over hot water; color and flavor as desired.
Dip a small wooden skewer in coloring paste, then into the fondant to color it lightly.
Keep the fondant over hot water while dipping.
Use a two-tined fork or a confectioner's bonbon dipper to clip the bonbons.
Drop each center into the fondant one at a time and place on oiled paper.
Bring the end of the dipper over the top of the bonbon to show they are hand-made.
Stir the fondant between clippings to prevent a crust from forming.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.