Raffaello is a round coconut bonbon & consists of a spherical waffle filled with a coconut milk cream & a blanched almond. Additionally the sweet is coated with coconut flakes
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In today’s post, I’ll show you how to make coconut bonbons like Raffaello at home. Have fun baking!
Cooked/Baked today: Homemade Raffaello Coconut Bonbons
Difficulty: Medium
Preparation Time: 2 hours & 30 minutes (incl. cooling time)
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Homemade Raffaello Coconut Bonbons
Ingredients for 10 Homemade Raffaello Coconut Bonbons:
- 2 large waffle sheets
- 175 grams mascarpone cheese
- 75 grams creamy coconut milk
- 50 grams sugar
- 25 grams coconut marrow
- 10 blanched almonds
- 100 grams white chocolate
- About 10 grams solidified coconut fat
- Coconut flakes for coating
Required kitchen gadgets, helper & preparations:
- 20s Cake Pop mold of silicon
- Small bowl with water
- Round cookie cutter (dimensions 3cm)
- Wire rack
- Saucepan for the cream
- Whisk
- Piping bag
- Large pot + suitable bowl for the double boiler or microwave to melt the white chocolate
- 2 forks
- 2 small bowls
- Baking paper
Instructions for the Homemade Raffaellos:
…for the spherical wafers:
Preheat the oven to 200°C (top/bottom heat). Then cut out 20 circles with a diameter of approx. 3cm from the wafer sheets with a round cookie cutter.
Afterwards, prepare a small bowl with cold water, dip the waffle circles briefly into the water and then set aside for 1 – 2 minutes on a wire rack until you can easily deform them.

Preparing Wafers
Then line the roundings of the cake pop mold as smooth as possible with the damp waffle circles and cut off the edges with a pair of scissors. Place the second cake pop mold with the roundings down onto the wafer-filled mold & carefully press a bit (so the wafers will remain in their round shape when baking).
Afterwards bake in a preheated oven for 12 – 15 minutes until the wafers are crispy.
…for the cocnut milk cream:
Combine 75 milliliters creamy coconut milk, 50 grams sugar & 25 grams coconut marrow into a saucepan & heat up over low heat while stirring constantly until sugar & coconut marrow have completely dissolved. Next, pull saucepan from heat, add 175 grams mascarpone cheese & stir together until smooth with a whisk.

Cooking Raffaello Cream
…for the Raffaello bonbons:
Transfer the coconut milk cream into a piping bag & pipe the cream into the wafer-filled cake pop molds. Decorate half of the filled hemispheres with a blanched almond and put the cake pop mold into the freezer for about 1 hour. After the freezing time carefully press together a hemisphere with & a hemisphere without almond filling until you got a whole Raffaello bonbon.

Homemade Raffaello Bonbons
Melt 100 grams white chocolate & about 10 grams solidified coconut fat over a double boiler or in the microwave, also prepare a small bowl filled with coconut flakes. Then pull the Raffaello balls through the melted chocolate first, lift out with a fork & allow to drip off the excess chocolate & finally coat with coconut flakes.
Next, allow the Raffaello Bonbons to harden on baking paper & then serve.
I wish you lots of fun baking 😉
Video Tutorial:
Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):
Where can I buy these molds? Thanks!
What exactly is a coconut marrow?
How do I make Raffaella for sale and how to preserve its shelf life?
Yes, I am not sure either, what is marrow.
COCONUT MARROW is just the shredded or scraped coconut from the inside of a coconut shell.