After 5 minutes your chocolate will easily release from the mold and are ready to be assembled! Molding the chocolate spheres with an acrylic mold Step 6 - Place the mold face down onto some parchment paper until it's almost set but still soft. About 5 minutes. This allows the excess chocolate to pool onto the parchment paper to build up the rim of the chocolate.

Hot chocolate bombs make a great gift! Wrap them in a plastic bag with a fun tie and some instructions for use. Put it in a mug and give them as gifts for the Holidays! Nothing says I love you like hot chocolate! Milk Chocolate Cocoa Bombs Using an acrylic mold has a few more steps but the shine is incredible and is much faster than using a silicone mold. I tested these hot chocolate bombs out in various amounts of milk and found that 14 ounces was about perfect. I heat my milk until it's steaming (not boiling). Place the hot chocolate bomb in the bottom of the mug and pour the hot milk on top. The hot cream opens up the bomb and all the marshmallows escape! So fun! Pro-tip - No microwave? You can temper your chocolate the old-fashioned way. I go over it in my chocolate tempering tutorial. Molding the chocolate spheres with a silicone mold

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If you want to color your white chocolate, it's really easy. You just need to add a little melted colored cocoa butter. I like to use cocoa butter colors from chef rubber. About 1 teaspoon for 2 Tablespoons of melted white chocolate and mix. Step 4 Carefully remove frozen chocolate from molds. Fill half of the molds with about 2 tablespoons of hot chocolate mixture and a few marshmallows. Silicone sphere mold to make your bombs. This is the easiest mold to use if you're not familiar with tempering chocolate. I will also show you how to use acrylic sphere molds for you over-achievers out there.

Step 1 - Clean your mold. Use some paper towel to thoroughly polish the insides of your molds so that they are nice and shiny. Any amount of residue will cause a blemish on your chocolate. This is true for silicone molds and acrylic molds. Step 5 - Pour some chocolate onto some parchment paper and pop it into the fridge for 5 minutes. Take it out and observe it. Does it look shiny? Does it snap in half loudly when you break it? Then it's tempered and ready to go in your molds.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. Add 1 tablespoon melted chocolate into a silicone sphere-shaped mold (2-1/2-in. diameter). Brush melted chocolate evenly inside molds, all the way to edges, rewarming melted chocolate as needed. Refrigerate molds until chocolate is set, 3-5 minutes. Brush a thin second layer of chocolate in molds. Refrigerate until set, 8-10 minutes. Place remaining melted chocolate into a piping bag fitted with a small round decorating tip; set aside. Remove chocolate hemispheres from molds. In a medium bowl, whisk together baking cocoa, milk powder and confectioners' sugar. Place 3 tablespoons cocoa mixture into each of 6 of the chocolate hemispheres. Top each with 1 tablespoon marshmallow bits. Step 2 Using 2.5” silicone sphere molds, add a couple of tablespoons of melted chocolate to bottom of 12 molds. Use a spoon to spread the chocolate all around the sides and bottom in a smooth layer, making sure there are no thin spots. Place into freezer and chill until solid, at least 30 minutes. You may not use all of the melted chocolate, but reserve to help seal the molds together later or for drizzling on top.

The worst-looking marshmallows belonged to The Gourmet Chocolate Pizza Company. Both testers noted how they shrank almost immediately to the size of tic tacs when we melted the bomb. Try to use the table of contents below to navigate – there are a lot of recipes listed here 🙂 Table of Contents Step 4 - Repeat this process 2-5 more times until the chocolate is almost melted. Never heat more than 15 seconds and do not let your chocolate get above 90ºF. Once almost melted, just continue stirring until the chocolate is fully melted from the residual heat from the bowl. If you're really serious about making cocoa bombs to sell, you'll want to get some couverture chocolate which is made to melt really smoothly and use in chocolate molds. Step 1 - Chop 24 ounces of good quality semi-sweet chocolate as finely as you can with a knife. This is kind of tedious but I promise it's worth it! You don't want ANY big chunks.What in the world is a Hot Chocolate Bomb? A hot chocolate bomb is a chocolate sphere, filled with hot cocoa, marshmallows, and different fun surprises. All you need are some sphere molds, some chocolate candy melts, hot cocoa mix(this one is organic) but sometimes I just go for the reliable Swiss Miss), mini-marshmallows, and an afternoon to explore your creativity!