½" candy eyes - Most candy eyes you find at craft stores are about ¼-inch in diameter or are jumbo-sized and are almost 1-inch diameter. Red candy noses - I used cinnamon RedHots (small round cinnamon candies) but M&M's would work well too. Marshmallows - I suggest you fill your hot cocoa bombs with tiny dehydrated marshmallows. You could also fill them with homemade marshmallows cut into tiny squares (see my recipe for homemade marshmallows, here). 1 cup finely grated dark chocolate (you don't need to sift this, just mix it in using a whisk).Make homemade hot chocolate mix by sifting together:.Hot cocoa mix - You can use a store-bought hot cocoa mix or you can make homemade. I use Peter's Ultra Milk Chocolate or Callebaut Milk Chocolate Callets.See my Chocolate Making Tips page for more details about choosing and melting/tempering chocolate.Milk chocolate - You can use melted and tempered pure milk chocolate (made with cocoa butter) or melted compound milk chocolate (made with palm kernel oil or other vegetable oil and also known as Candy Melts, melting wafers, confectionery coating, or almond bark). plastic ornament balls - You can also use FDA food approved plastic ornament balls as molds to create your chocolate hot cocoa bombs.They come in many different sizes including 2.8-inch Freshware silicone half-sphere molds or 2.04-inch silicone molds. silicone half-sphere molds - Silicone molds produce beautifully shiny hot chocolate bombs, but they require a bit more work.You can find 2.5-inch molds or smaller 2-inch molds. The polycarbonate molds are available in many different sizes though. They are the perfect size to fit into a traditional coffee mug. The 6-cavity mold that I used creates chocolate bombs that are 2 ¼ inches in diameter.
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