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Bonbon

This article is about a kind of confection. A Christmas cracker
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's 1832 short story of the same name, see Bon-Bon (short story)
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The name bonbon (or bon-bon) stems from the French

French language

French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
word bon, literally meaning “good”. Nowadays, the term “bonbon” refers to several types of sweets and other table centrepieces across the world.

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Europe

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, a bonbon is a sweet; the simplest form of bonbon is essentially sugar-coated almonds. In the modern era, the use of almonds as a centre has declined, and a bonbon can be any confection with a fondant

Fondant

Poured fondant is a cream confection used as a filling or coating for cakes, pastries, and candies or sweets. In its simplest form, it is sugar and water cooked to the Candy#Manufacture, cooled slightly, and stirred or beaten until it is an opaque mass of creamy consistency....
center, often with fruit or nuts, covered in fondant or chocolate, or any other confection consisting of a sweet centre covered by a loose sugar or flavored coating. Although not technically a bon bon in the conventional sense, the term is also used in respect of Fruit Bon Bons, a hard-boiled sweet with a soft fruit centre.

Bonbons and nuts are often served with a bonbon spoon

Spoon

A spoon is a utensil consisting of a small shallow bowl, oval or round, at the end of a handle. A type of cutlery , especially as part of a table setting, it is used primarily for serving and eating liquid or semisolid food , and solid foods such as rice and cereal which cannot easily be lifted with a fork....
, which has a flat, perforated bowl.

Bonbon is also the term used in French and German for sweetness.