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Hot Cocoa Kits

12/17/2021

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You must have bought or were gifted one of our little Hot Cocoa Bomb Making Kits and you are here for some helpful tips! Or your 4 year old colored the pretty label with sharpie and you can't read the instructions any more! We got you!!

Basic Instructions

Make chocolate cups

1. Get all the ingredients together and melt the chocolate in the microwave safe bowl.
2. Add the chocolate to each cup mold.
3. Spread the chocolate in an even layer to coat the mold, but make sure the layer is not TOO thin.
4. Place the mold into the fridge or freezer for 10 minutes or until set.

Fill the cups

1. Once the chocolate is set in the mold remove from the freezer and pull the mold off if the chocolate.
2. If you'd like you can use the opposite type of chocolate to drizzle over the tops of the chocolate cups.
3. Now using the bottom halves, add the hot chocolate powder to each one.
4. Add Mini marshmallows.

Seal the cups

1. Warm a small, microwave safe plate in the microwave for 45-60 seconds.
2. Place empty half chocolate cup on the plate for a couple seconds until it begins to melt the edges. This creates an even edge and a sort of glue.
3. Connect with the bottom filled half cup so that the edges meet. Hold for 10 seconds.
4. Repeat with the remaining spheres until they are all completed.

Helpful Tips

Microwave Double-Boiler Method

Grab a small glass cup. We used a glass yogurt cup, like the little Oui brand cups. Something small enough for the chocolate wafers to fill the cup 1/2 to 2/3 of the way up.
Grab a larger mug, large enough for the smaller cup to fit inside.
Before putting the chocolate in the small cup, place the empty small cup inside the larger mug and fill the larger cup with water about half way up the sides of the smaller cup. If you fill it too high, it might boil over into the chocolate that will be in the smaller cup.
Add your chocolate wafers into the smaller cup.
Place the mug with the small cup inside, into the microwave and heat for 1-2 minutes depending on your microwave. We checked on ours every 30 seconds and stirred it with the little skewer provided in the kit.
When all of the chocolate is melted, it's done!

Spreading the melted chocolate into the silicone cups

In your kit is a small spoon to spread the chocolate. If using this little spoon, it works best if you hold the cup in your palm rather than holding it with your fingers or leaving it set on a plate.
You'll want to rotate the cup around tilting it to allow the chocolate to spread into the grooves. You need a solid layer. If you have a pastry brush, it works even better to get the nooks and crannies of the silicone cup fully coated.
Another option would be to do a single thin layer, place the cup in the freezer for a minute and take it out and repeat a second layer to ensure an even coating.

Batching your chocolate tops and bottoms

You should have received 4 silicone cups in your kit but enough supplies to make 4 cocoa bombs.
The method we prefer is to make 4 bases at a time and let those harden up before making your 4 tops.
- If you are using the microwave double-boiler method, you can reheat your chocolate when you are ready to make your tops.
- If you use the direct heating method from the kits provided instructions, you may need to split up heating half of the wafers at a time as they don't always reheat well this way.

Hot Cocoa Kits

Basic Instructions

Helpful Tips

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Hot Cocoa Kits

Basic Instructions

Helpful Tips

December 16th, 2021

Dine-Out at Islands!

This month's Dine-Out fundraiser is at Islands! ​

Upcoming Events

Updates & Resources

This month's Dine-Out fundraiser is at Islands!