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Frosty Peppermint Hot Chocolate Bombs To Sip and Savor

Frosty Peppermint Hot Chocolate Bombs

dana vento
Prep Time 15 minutes
Additional Time 8 minutes
Total Time 23 minutes
Course Recipes
Cuisine beverage
Servings 5 Hot Chocolate Bombs

Ingredients
  

  • 24 ounces of chocolate I use almond bark, white
  • 1 Packet of hot cocoa or 8 Tablespoons of hot cocoa
  • Marshmallows optional
  • 7-9 Buttermints Crushed or one candy cane
  • Hershey Kiss White Striped Peppermint Chocolates
  • 12 ounces of milk or more depending on your mug size x 5 (per mug)
  • A few red melting wafers 7 are plenty (eyes, and seal around the middle, as well as for holding Kiss to the head)
  • one sandwich platter
  • Gloves for your hands vinyl
  • Thin Paint Brush

Instructions
 

  • Break the almond bark into pieces following the perforations.
  • Each piece is 2 ounces.
  • Next, set up your workspace.
  • Grab a microwave-safe bowl.
  • Open your hot chocolate packet & A tablespoon
  • Set aside about 1/2 C of Mini Marshmallows for cocoa.
  • Place your crushed buttermint or candy cane in a bowl.
  • Pull out your favorite hot cocoa mugs (for 5)
  • Place your silicone form in front of you.
    Prep For Frosty Peppermint Hot Chocolate Bombs
  • Microwave about 6-8 ounces of chocolate (45 seconds or then in 15-second intervals until it mixes to smooth with a fork)
  • Once it is smoothed, paint it on the silicone molds making sure to capture the sides of the mold and the base.
    silicone mold with chocolate
  • Carefully move to the refrigerator and allow it to cool for up to 5 minutes but it will be more like 3 minutes.
  • Remove.
  • Again, heat about 6 ounces more of chocolate and paint the sidewalls of the form (to make sure it is strong enough and won't break when handled.
  • Now refrigerate again briefly.
    Hot Chocolate Bombs in mold
  • Once set and no longer wet (don't refrigerate more than 5 minutes), it's time to remove each from the mold.
  • Gently push from the bottom and each should detach.
  • Place each of the cups in front of you, 2 together. (they are a pair, one is the top and one is the bottom)
  • ** READ This BEFORE YOU FILL ***You should STILL Have 5 other Halves that will NOT be filled they are the TOPs which we will seal in a few more steps below.
  • Then, fill 5 (1/2's) each with a tablespoon of hot peppermint chocolate.
  • Toss in some of the buttermint (or candy cane)
  • Follow that with marshmallows.
    mini bit marshmallows
  • Now it's time to seal the cups.
  • There are a few methods. (paintbrush or melted platter)
  • However, on these, I actually heated a Microwave-safe plate for ONE Minute to make it very warm to touch, and perfect to melt the chocolate of the UNFILLED Half (the rim) and then match it to it's filled partner.
  • This lets the mold together.
  • Allow it to sit, and then, just to make sure they are sealed.
  • While they are setting, make the red color chocolate.
  • Melt Red Wafers in the microwave (30 seconds first then 15 seconds if not melted).
  • Stir.
  • Add a dot of red coloring (chocolate food coloring, not basic food coloring read post to see what I used)
  • Stir.
  • Let this cool for a minute, you don't want it TOO Hot or it will melt your seal.
  • I used a paintbrush and do what I call paintbrush rimming with a little more melted chocolate that is not HOT, just pliable. This way, I am not MELTING the chocolate when I seal it.
    Red coloring for belt on snowman
  • Also at this point, you want to add the hat and eyes.
  • For the hat, just add a little of the red melted wafers and affix that to the bottom of the 'kiss' then to the head of the snowman.
  • Paint a few eyes on with the red too.
  • Now, let that sit until it is no longer wet (about 5 minutes)
    Frosty Peppermint Hot Chocolate Bombs on platter
  • Really this dries very fast.
  • Warm your milk to steaming not boiling.
  • Place the Perfect Hot chocolate bomb in the bottom of your mug.
  • Pour over with milk.
  • The hot chocolate bomb will first rise and then implode.
  • When it does the marshmallows will resurface.
  • Mix.
  • Enjoy (it's hot be careful! )