If you are going to use candy melts or another candy coating then you'll definitely want to use the silicone mold and not the acrylic mold. The bombs dissolve when added to hot milk for a nearly instant mug of delicious double-chocolate happiness! I tested these hot chocolate bombs out in various amounts of milk and found that 14 ounces was about perfect. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Mini marshmallows– You can use ani mini marshmallows you’d like, I used vegan mini marshmallows and they work great!

Attach the antlers (use gloves to avoid fingerprints) using some melted chocolate and hold in place until the chocolate hardens. Step 4 - Pour the excess chocolate out of the mold back into the bowl or onto the table to be scraped up later. Hot chocolate heart bombs come encased in their own individually wrapped box and would make a great present to amaze your friends and family. Hot chocolate balls are easy to make chocolate spheres that are filled with cocoa mix and marshmallows. If you don’t want to receive cookies, you can modify your browser so that it notifies you when cookies are sent to it or you can refuse cookies altogether.First, start by melting the chocolate chips in the microwave-safe bowl in 30 seconds increment, stir between each one. You could also say I’m the resident icing piper, cookie decorator, and cake decorator…speaking of, do you have time for seconds? You can heat the chocolate any way you want in the microwave, the only thing you have to be careful of is the temperature. Set it down and add 1 tablespoon of cocoa mix and 1-2 teaspoons of marshmallows and/or other fillings.

Now, you can slightly heat up a pan or a plate, place them on your work surface and proceed to fill up a dome of chocolate with 1 tablespoon of hot chocolate mix and about 6 marshmallows. Unfortunately, I can't try them out as I'm boringly lactose intolerant but have it confirmed that they were yummy. The downside is that it takes a bit more time to hand paint each mold so if you're making a lot, you might want to go with the acrylic mold. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Real chocolate will need to be tempered so the surface doesn’t get a grayish-white haze after it cools.

Why this recipe works: This recipe uses a double layer of melted chocolate so the shell is thick and sturdy to hold its contents. Please always read the labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming a product. Tempering your chocolate will result in a shinier shell which is always better especially if you are giving these as a gift. These are perfect for people with vegan, vegetarian and dairy free diets, and are a great alternative to the milk chocolate bombes.Tempering is a process where you heat the chocolate, cool it, and heat it again to very specific temperatures to align all of it’s molecules and make it set in a more rigid way. Her greatest passion is creating in the kitchen and making deliciously comforting recipes for the everyday home cook! The most fun way to make hot chocolate is using a hot chocolate bomb, which is a chocolate mold filled with cocoa mix and mini marshmallows. You can use any size of semi sphere silicone molds, but you'll need to adjust your ingredient amounts. Ingredients: Milk chocolate (91%) (sugar, cocoa butter, whole MILK powder, cocoa mass, whey powder (MILK), lactose (MILK), emulsifier: SOYA lecithin, flavourings), marshmallows (9%) (glucose-fructose syrup, sugar, water, pork gelatine, maize starch, flavouring, colour: E162).