Bonbon cookies

These sweet little candy coated cookies have a delicious surprise inside - Maraschino cherries!

This is a very old recipe from my grandma. The sweet cherry filling surprises folks trying them for the first time. —Pat Habiger, Spearville, Kansas

A version of this post was published on June 29, 2010. These cookies have been a family favorite ever since I spotted them as a preteen in a Betty Crocker cookie book. (My mom kept the cookbook an…

Today I'd like to share a really fun cookie that was allthe rage between 1955-60. The BONBON Cookie - adelightful little cookie that was baked with a candysurprise in the middle, decorated, then serv

A bite-sized delight. Easy for anyone to make, so recruit the kids and enjoy. These freeze beautifully and can look very festive when decorated with simple icing.

Cherry bon bon cookies are a sweet bite of yum! Shortbread cookie wrapped around a cherry and topped with cherry frosting.

Almond Bonbon Cookies Recipe from Taste of Home -- shared by Teri Lee Rasey of Cadillac, Michigan

Today I'd like to share a really fun cookie that was all the rage between 1955-60. The BONBON Cookie - a delightful little cooki...

Today I'd like to share a really fun cookie that was all the rage between 1955-60. The BONBON Cookie - a delightful little cookie that was baked with a candy surprise in the middle, decorated, then served and eaten as you would a special box of chocolates! Here's what Betty Crocker says about them in her Cooky Book (1963).... "CANDY - LIKE COOKIES IN VOGUE - Women were fascinated by these beautiful and delicious cookies which were baked as cookies, served and eaten as candies." These little…