Imagine that cold chilly evening. The sun has already gone down and it’s only 4:30. You’ve got some scented candles already going and your blanket is waiting for you on the couch. Now all you need is a little sweet treat to warm you up and complete your hygge. Enter: the Hot Chocolate Bomb and Friends.
I’m sure you’re here for a fun gift idea to make for your friends and family but don’t forget to keep a few for yourself! You deserve it! With this straight forward tutorial you’ll have the completion to your hygge evening within the next hour!
To start you’ll want to gather your supplies. I bought my molds for the bombs on Amazon here. I’ll explain later that this project kept growing with more and more molds so I’ll include links to find them on Amazon but you can easily use what you have, if you already have it! You’ll also want some melting chocolate, hot cocoa mix, marshmallows, marshmallow bits, maybe some sprinkles and any other decorating supplies you’d like. I am an Amazon Associate so I might make a small commission on qualifying purchases after you click on a link.
From start to finish including clean up this project took me about an hour and a half. And I kept adding more elements but again, even with those it was less than 2 hours which is definitely doable during a busy holiday season!
You can definitely get really nice chocolate and chop it up and melt it, I’m not really particular on my chocolate consumption and eat pretty much any chocolate offered to me so I used candy melts because they are easy and I have a lot of success just following the instructions on the package.
Once your chocolate is melted (I used a microwave) I would take a spoonful of the melted chocolate and drop it into the mold. Then using a rubber spatula with wiggly bits that I found in my drawer (I think it’s meant for egg washing?) I spread the chocolate up the sides being sure to get it all the way to the top. Once both molds were chocolate-ized I placed them in the fridge to chill.
I had leftover melted chocolate after this so I decided to whip out my spoon mold that I’ve been dying to use and started making chocolate spoons. I even melted some candy cane candy melts and made spoons from it. I sprinkled marshmallow bits while the chocolate was still melted. Then I placed it in the fridge. I should also note that if you melt your chocolates in a piping bag, or move the melted chocolate into a piping bag, your spoon molds would probably look a lot nicer. I was just using the spoon I had used to stir with and was dropping chocolate into the mold and swirling it into the space.
Once the bomb molds were hardened I melted more chocolate and repeated my earlier process. Then chilled again.
Then I got out the spoon molds and some of them broke. Pro tip, go slow haha. I then made some more spoons!
Now it was time to fill my hot chocolate bombs!!! For the size of my hot chocolate bombs I was able to use one packet of swiss miss with marshmellows in about 3 bombs. So to make 6 bombs I only used 2 packets. The chocolate ratio will be fine since there is a giant sphere of chocolate that is surrounding the cocoa mix! And, you can always use one of your chocolate spoons to give it even more chocolate flavoring!
After I got the chocolate mix in there I stuffed as many marshmellows as I could in the little bombs. Also note I turned the molds upside down to hold the bottoms in place!
Filling up the cups Marshmellows!
I had read to heat up a microwaveable plate and take one of your bomb tops and swirl it on the warm plate to melt the chocolate and then to adhere the two halves to make a whole. I did try this method. It didn’t really work on the first one because I wasn’t very perfect in my height despite my efforts!! I got it to kind of work for the second one but I was seeing that I was going to have to melt some chocolate and pipe it on the tops to connect them. I did watch a video twice so I was basically an expert before I tried it.
I melted white and red chocolate in a ziploc bag and then snipped a corner to make a piping bag.
I will be quitting my day job as I have basically made perfect hot chocolate bombs.
I carefully returned these to the refrigerator so they could chill. It’s tough work being perfect hot chocolate bombs. If you want to please Paul and Prue, and are going for finesse you could roll these (especially if in a messy state like mine) in a bowl of sprinkles which would hide the bulging chocolate closure. You could also melt chocolate that is the same color.
Now that I had pink melted chocolate in my makeshift piping bag I decided to make little candies out of a unicorn mold I have. I also want to point out, it’s a better deal to get these on Amazon than at Meijer like I had gotten mine. At Meijer it was sold individually and I paid easily $6+ dollars because I’m a sucker for unicorn stuff. (Really? With a website and brand with the name Unicorn in it? You don’t say haha) But Yeah, a two pack for about $11. That’s awesome!
I did fill them a little on the shallow side. Maybe 1/3 of the depth. then I added rainbow sprinkles while it was still melted. I put them in the fridge to chill.
If you have leftover chocolate and don’t want to waste it you do have several options! You can do like I did and pull out other molds you have. You can dip salty snacks into it and set on wax paper – examples are pretzels, chips, drizzle over popcorn, chex, really whatever floats your boat! You could even dip plastic spoons into the chocolate and it’s a different take but similar on the chocolate stir spoons. I’ve even seen people take melted chocolate and drizzle it over a pretzel stick to create a tree. Look it up on Pinterest, it’s so cute and inventive!
Lastly with my piping chocolate I did repair all my spoons that broke. This worked really well!
Once everything was done I packaged them up for my friends. I ended up doing two mixing spoons, two packages of swiss miss w/ marshmellows, a hot chocolate bomb and a unicorn chocolate in ziploc bags! When I started I had no idea it was going to turn out so cute! And I ended up really liking the silliness of the hot chocolate bombs in terms of how they looked. Honestly they’re like little Saturns so these hot chocolate bombs are out of this world!
Saturn Hot Cocoa Bombs
They just need to be plopped into a hot milky way for pure enjoyment.
These would make great teacher gifts, neighbor gifts, coworker gifts, bff gifts, I mean really I think most people would love these! And just look at that presentation! You could even gift it with a new cute mug. Maybe add some cookies, you know, get wild!
What molds do you have that you could use for little candies to go with your hot cocoas? Did you make some hot chocolate bombs? Share with us on socials! Also, if you loved this post please consider, ‘buying me a coffee’ it helps keep the website ad free!
xoxo
-Robin
