This hot chocolate bomb recipe a fun and festive way to enjoy your favorite winter drink! These rich and creamy chocolate spheres made a perfect cup of cocoa.
Start by breaking one chocolate bar into small pieces, and place in a glass bowl.
5.5 ounces dark chocolate bars
Microwave for 30 seconds at 50% power. Stir, and then return it to the microwave, heat another 15 seconds, and then stir again.
Once it begins to look melted with a few chunks of chocolate left, insert your candy thermometer into the chocolate.
You want your dark chocolate to be no higher than 90℉, or the chocolate will be untempered and will have a chalky appearance with possible streaks of white.
Once you reach your desired temperature, continue stirring until all chocolate is smooth and creamy with no lumps.
Place the silicone mold on a tray or flat baking sheet, and spoon approximately a tbsp of the melted dark chocolate into the molds.
Thoroughly coat the inside of the molds with a small silicone spatula or the back of a spoon.
Make sure to make the edges a little thicker, so that they don’t break when melding together. If the chocolate is pooled at the bottom, spread again to evenly coat all sides, or your sphere will be less circular, and more flat on the bottoms from the pooled chocolate.
Cool in the refrigerator for 1-2 minutes to set, and then remove. Heat the remaining chocolate per step 1, and repeat this process again to make a second layer of dark chocolate, again paying special attention to the edges.
Place back in the refrigerator for another 2 minutes.
While the chocolate is setting, roughly chop approximately 15 candy cane Hershey Kisses.
12 Hershey’s Candy Cane Kisses
Remove the chocolate from the refrigerator, and slowly pull the mold away from the chocolate, pushing up from the bottom to release.
Heat a small plate in the microwave for 15-20 seconds. Place a sphere open side down on the plate, and lightly twist to melt the edges.
Immediately fill with a couple of heaping tablespoons of hot cocoa mix, approximately 10 miniature marshmallows, and a tsp or more of chopped Hershey Kisses.
9 tbsp Hot Cocoa Mix, ½ cup Miniature marshmallows
Place another chocolate sphere on the plate, and melt the edges, and place it on top of the filled sphere.
Next, melt the white candy melts per package instructions. Drape a sandwich bag or pastry bag over your hand, and fill it with the melted candy.
½ cup white candy melts
Cut the tip with kitchen shears, and pipe back and forth over the chocolate bomb. Add candy cane sprinkles.
¼ cup Candy cane sprinkles
Melt the red candy melts per package instructions, and repeat step 5 to fill a sandwich bag/pastry bag.
½ cup red candy melts
Cut the tip, and pipe over the white candy melts, and sprinkle the chopped Hershey Kisses on top.
Repeat with the remaining cocoa bombs.
When you’re ready to enjoy your cocoa bomb, heat the milk of your choice, place a cocoa bomb in a mug, and pour the milk over it and watch the hot cocoa mix and marshmallows explode in the milk!
Notes
Use gloves to prevent the residual heat from your fingers from melting the chocolate while you are working.
Be sure not to overfill the chocolate mold, or they will be difficult to remove and could break.
You can also use a toothpick to help release the bombs from the mold if needed.
You can switch up the chocolate for milk or white chocolate. If you want a stronger peppermint flavor, add a little peppermint flavoring as the perfect addition to the melted chocolates.
You can substitute the chopped Hershey Kisses for crushed peppermints, Andes Peppermint Crunch Baking Chips, or just use peppermint flavoring.