Hot Chocolate Bombs take just a few ingredients and you can make a variety of flavors! You can make these hot cocoa bombs into coffee bombs by adding your favorite cappuccino flavor!
Hot Chocolate Bombs
Hot chocolate bombs (or hot cocoa bombs) have been a huge hit this year thanks to TikTok.
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It's for good reason, too! They're incredibly easy to make and they're so much more fun watching them pop open and fill your mug with marshmallows and cocoa!
Kids love them, adults love them, and stores can't keep them on the shelves. That's okay, though. They're incredibly easy to make at home.
You can get creative with different colors, flavors, and candies. One of my favorite ways to create a hot chocolate bomb is to add some coffee and turn it into coffee bombs!
Cappuccino Coffee Bombs
Adding your favorite cappuccino mix to the inside of your hot chocolate bomb gives these hot chocolate bombs and flavorful and delicious caffeine kick.
I've been making a cappuccino and hot chocolate mix for a while now but I have to admit, I really enjoy the marshmallows popping out of the chocolate and the cappuccino and cocoa mix melting into the hot water.
Hot Chocolate Bombs Variations
It's fun to get creative with these delightful hot chocolate bombs. Hot cocoa is classic but you can switch up the flavors to create a white chocolate cocoa bomb using white chocolate cocoa powder with crushed peppermint candies.
It takes just a tablespoon of white chocolate cocoa mix and a small handful of marshmallows to fill up the chocolate cavities. Combined with a small teaspoon of crushed peppermints you have one tasty creation!
Using white chocolate, almond bark, or white candy coating is a great way to mix up colors if you're feeling festive. I use gel colors to change my candy coloring as it doesn't take much and it's much more consistent than using liquid dye drops.
Adding a few tablespoons of your favorite cappuccino mix along with some hot cocoa mix and some marshmallows creates a warm chocolatey caffeinated drink.
French Vanilla cappuccino mix would work great with white chocolate coffee bombs as an English Toffee or Mocha cappuccino would work best with chocolate coffee bombs. Either way, when adding coffee to the mix, you have now created delicious and fun coffee bombs!
This English Toffee Cappuccino Bombs variation has toffee bits, a delicious twist on cappuccino bombs.
These fun treats also make great gifts! They're easy enough to make that you can knock quite a few out in not much time at all.
The hardest part of making these hot chocolate bombs is picking and choosing flavors!
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Tips for Hot Chocolate Bombs
Personally, for me that most frustrating thing about making these hot cocoa bombs is the seams! I'm far from perfect at it and it may just be my lack of patience (heh...).
I have found that heating a small skillet on low with a square of parchment paper inside to keep the skillet clean is a good start.
After the chocolate is molded and ready to fill, I place the open part of the sphere onto the warm skillet and gently twist it for a second before removing the sphere and placing it on parchment paper.
A tablespoon of hot cocoa powder and a small handful of marshmallows are then added to the inside of that sphere.
The process of melting the edges is then done on the other piece of the sphere and then carefully and gently placed on top of the other.
At this time, it will either be seamless or some smudging with the back of a spoon will help seal the edges.
I'm not an expert by any means and I've seen some beautiful hot chocolate bombs out there!
This is a fun, creative, and tasty thing to create and doesn't need to be perfect! Kids can help out too by filling these hot cocoa bombs with cocoa powder, melting candies, and marshmallows.
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What's Needed To Make Hot Cocoa Bombs
- Hot Cocoa Bomb Mold - there are a few sizes, I prefer 70mm
- Piping Bags - for drizzling chocolate
- Parchment Paper- for the skillet and for temporary storage
- Small Skillet - to heat the edges to create a seam
- Hot Cocoa Mix
- Mini marshmallows
- Cappuccino mix - if making coffee bombs
Hot Cocoa Bombs flavors
Classic Chocolate Hot Chocolate Bombs
- Chocolate almond bark or melting chocolate
- Hot cocoa powder mix
- Mini marshmallows
White Chocolate Hot Cocoa Bombs
- White chocolate almond bark or melting white chocolate
- White chocolate cocoa mix
- Mini marshmallows
White Chocolate Peppermint Hot Cocoa Bombs
- White chocolate almond bark or melting white chocolate
- White chocolate cocoa mix
- Crushed peppermint candies
- Mini Marshmallows
Cappuccino Coffee Bombs
- White chocolate or chocolate melting chocolate or almond bark
- Hot cocoa mix (optional)
- Cappuccino mix of choice
- Mini Marshmallows
📖 Recipe
Hot Chocolate Bombs
Ingredients
- 16 oz almond bark - flavor of choice
- 6 tablespoon hot cocoa mix - flavor of choice
- ½ cup mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Set parchment paper out on the counter for chocolate bombs.
- Melt the chocolate according to directions on the package.
- Use a spoon to fill the spheres with the chocolate, smoothing the chocolate up on the sides of the mold.
- Place the molds in the refrigerator to chill for 15 minutes.
- Set a small skillet on the stove and set to low heat.
- Place a small piece of parchment paper into the skillet to catch melted chocolate.
- After 15 minutes remove the molds from the refrigerator and carefully pop out the chocolate spheres.
- Take one side of the sphere and gently press the edges into the skillet to get rid of any rough edges.
- Place the sphere onto the parchment paper, opening side up.
- Fill with 1 tablespoon of hot cocoa powder.
- Add a small handful of mini marshmallows.
- Take the other side of the sphere and gently press the edges into the skillet.
- While the edges are still melted, place on top of the other sphere and gently press down.
- Use a piping bag to decorate the tops with melted chocolate.
- Store in a cool place or in the refrigerator.
Notes
- 16 oz Chocolate almond bark or melting chocolate
- 6 tablespoon Hot cocoa powder mix
- ½ cup mini marshmallows
- 16 oz White chocolate almond bark or melting white chocolate
- 6 tablespoon White chocolate cocoa mix
- ½ cup mini marshmallows
- 16 oz White chocolate almond bark or melting white chocolate
- 6 tablespoon White chocolate cocoa mix
- ¼ teaspoon crushed peppermint candies
- ½ cup mini Marshmallows
- 16 oz White chocolate or chocolate melting chocolate or almond bark
- 6 tablespoon Hot cocoa mix (optional)
- 8 tablespoon Cappuccino mix of choice
- ½ cup mini Marshmallows
Nutrition
Nutritional information is an estimate based on third-party calculations. Actual values may vary due to ingredients, measurements, and serving sizes.
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