Santa Hot Chocolate Bombs are the perfect DIY Hot chocolate bombs to make for Christmas. Hot chocolate bombs are all the rage right now and for good reason, they are fun and tasty and everyone will love them.
A chocolate sphere filled with hot chocolate mix, marshmallows and peppermint. The chocolate ball is then placed in a mug, and heated milk poured over it and it melt into an incredibly decadent mug of hot cocoa. Homemade hot chocolate bombs make for the perfect DIY gift too!
Santa Hot Chocolate Bombs
I am loving hot chocolate bombs right now. They are so much fun and they make amazing hot chocolate. We have been loving our hot chocolate bombs, and I knew I had to make a fun one just for Christmas! Bring on the Santa hot chocolate bombs that are perfect for serving at Christmas breakfast! If you are looking for more hot chocolate bombs check out my gingerbread house hot chocolate bombs, unicorn hot chocolate bombs and peppermint hot chocolate bombs.
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How to make Hot Chocolate with Hot Chocolate Bombs
To use hot chocolate bombs after they have set heat 2 cups of milk in the microwave or on the stove.
Add the hot chocolate bomb to a mug.
Pour the hot milk over the chocolate bomb and watch it pop and the insides of the the hot chocolate bomb pop out, stir until the hot cocoa bombs are completely melted.
What is a Hot Chocolate Bomb?
Hot chocolate bombs are a fun and simple way to have fun with hot chocolate. A hot chocolate bomb is a sphere of chocolate that you create in a half sphere mold with melted chocolate.
Before sealing the chocolate sphere halves you fill them with hot chocolate mix, marshmallows and peppermint.
The hot chocolate ball is then placed in a mug, and heated milk poured over it.
The heated milk causes the chocolate sphere to melt, the insides of the hot chocolate bomb to “explode” and then you mix it making a tasty hot chocolate.
Tips for making hot chocolate bombs
I have included a video on how to make hot chocolate bombs in this post as well, so you can see it visually to help you with making them.
Make sure the chocolate is melted thoroughly. You want to make sure the chocolate is smoothly melted before you use it in the chocolate molds. You can microwave per the directions on the package or melt the chocolate with a double boiler.
Allow chocolate to harden fully. While you might be impatient like myself, when you are placing the chocolate in the freezer to harden back up it is important. You need to let it fully harden or you will have issues removing it from the molds, and you will have issues with the chocolate bombs falling apart.
Use good quality chocolate. Using chocolate melts is the easiest way to go but using a higher quality chocolate will give you a better hot chocolate flavor.
Santa Hot Chocolate Bombs Ingredients
- 1 cup White Candy Melts
- 2 cups Hot Chocolate Mix, you can use homemade hot chocolate mix or store bought.
- 2 cups Mini Marshmallows
- 1 cup Red Candy Melts
You will also need bath bomb molds or cake pop molds and, if using bath bomb molds, I found it best to hold them steady in a cupcake tin. I use these but you can also use silicone half sphere molds.
How to Make Santa Hot Chocolate Bombs
Place white candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and melt in the microwave per the directions on the package. You can also melt chocolate in a double boiler.
Place 2 tablespoons of melted white candy melt into one half of a bomb mold and, using the bottom of your tablespoon measuring spoon, press the chocolate up the sides of the mold, keeping it thick but even. Repeat for a total of 6 bomb mold halves.
Place red candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and melt in the microwave per the directions on the package.
Place 2 tablespoons melted red candy melt into one half of a bomb mold and, using the bottom of your tablespoon measuring spoon, press the chocolate up the sides of the mold, keeping it thick but even. Repeat for the remaining 6 bomb mold halves.
Place the chocolate filled bomb molds into the freezer for 5 minutes.
Remove molds from the freezer and gently tap the sides of the mold, pressing on one side of the chocolate to make the chocolate slid out of the mold.
Fill the red molds with 2 tablespoons hot chocolate mix and 6-8 mini marshmallows.
Heat a plate or a flat-bottom bowl in the microwave until the surface of the plate is warm to the touch.
Press one of the white bomb halves open-side-down onto the flat portion of the warm plate for about 10 seconds. This will gently melt the rim of the chocolate cup.
Immediately press this warmed edge chocolate cup to the top of one of the filled red cups. This will join the two halves of the hot cocoa bomb.
Remelt the remaining white chocolate and put into a piping bag.
Pipe a big, fluffy line of white candy melts over the join line of the assembled hot cocoa bombs as well as a dollop on top.
Place the hot cocoa bombs into the freezer for 5 minutes to get them to set, then remove and store in an airtight container until you’re ready to use.
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Santa Hot Chocolate Bombs
Material
- half sphere molds
Ingredients
- 1 cup White Candy Melts
- 2 cups Hot Chocolate Mix
- 2 cups Mini Marshmallows
- 1 cup Red Candy Melts
Instructions
- Place white candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and melt in the microwave per the directions on the package. You can also melt chocolate in a double boiler.
- Place 2 tablespoons of melted white candy melt into one half of a bomb mold and, using the bottom of your tablespoon measuring spoon, press the chocolate up the sides of the mold, keeping it thick but even. Repeat for a total of 6 bomb mold halves.
- Place red candy melts in a microwave safe bowl and melt in the microwave per the directions on the package.
- Place 2 tablespoons melted red candy melt into one half of a bomb mold and, using the bottom of your tablespoon measuring spoon, press the chocolate up the sides of the mold, keeping it thick but even. Repeat for the remaining 6 bomb mold halves.
- Place the chocolate filled bomb molds into the freezer for 5 minutes.
- Remove molds from the freezer and gently tap the sides of the mold, pressing on one side of the chocolate to make the chocolate slid out of the mold.
- Fill the red molds with 2 tablespoons hot chocolate mix and 6-8 mini marshmallows.
- Heat a plate or a flat-bottom bowl in the microwave until the surface of the plate is warm to the touch.
- Press one of the white bomb halves open-side-down onto the flat portion of the warm plate for about 10 seconds. This will gently melt the rim of the chocolate cup.
- Immediately press this warmed edge chocolate cup to the top of one of the filled red cups. This will join the two halves of the hot cocoa bomb.
- Using a piping bag or a fork, pipe a big, fluffy line of white candy melts over the join line of the assembled hot cocoa bombs as well as a dollop on top.
- Place the hot cocoa bombs into the freezer for 5 minutes to get them to set, then remove and store in an airtight container until you’re ready to use.
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