Healthy Mint Chocolate Bon-Bons

Healthy Mint Chocolate Bon-Bons – A creamy, delicious bite of chocolate-covered minty ‘ice cream’. Gluten-free and nut-free!

Top o’ the mornin’ to ya!

I actually do have a bit of Irish blood running through my veins, though admittedly, not much.

An aunt on my dad’s side is really into genealogy, so I have a good idea of what my ancestry is.

My mom is also pretty well-versed about her family.

Summing it up, I’m half Czech, one-quarter German, one-eighth Welsh, and one-eighth Irish.

If being Irish means loving mint, however, I’m shocked I’m not full-blooded!

As a kid, the best part of an Olive Garden meal meant the Andes mint afterward.

As a teen, my favorite candies to eat at movies were Junior Mints.

Now, as an adult, I find myself craving any one of these treats on a regular basis. They’re just so darn refreshing!

I have more than a few recipes pairing the two flavors, but let’s go ahead and add another in honor of upcoming Saint Patrick’s Day!

I was originally trying for a nut-free Peppermint Patty, but that goal quickly morphed into ice cream after one bite!

These truly taste like bon-bons. If you’re unfamiliar, a bon-bon is basically just a small bite of ice cream covered in chocolate.

In the spirit of total honesty, I will tell you that if you don’t like hemp seeds, you may not like these.

When I had my husband taste the filling alone, he wasn’t a fan.

Covered in chocolate, however, they’ve now become one of his favorite treats.

One night he even asked if he could eat the entire lot!

I politely informed him that he was lucky to get one, much less my entire, hard-earned batch. (I don’t share well, especially chocolate.)

Despite three out of five family members’ distaste for hemp, all five of us absolutely loved these bon-bons!

Recipe tips 

For the filling, I like to use a combination of honey and stevia for sweetness. I typically use one heaped tablespoon of raw honey and a few dashes of stevia.

You WON’T need all of the chocolate mixture, but the nutritional facts take the entire recipe into account. I just pour the remaining chocolate into silicone muffin cups and freeze to eat as dark chocolate.

I cut the frozen muffin cup in half, to make half moon-shaped bon-bons (see below).

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