Easy Vegan Hot Chocolate Bombs

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These vegan hot chocolate bombs will turn your favorite plant-based milk into the perfect cup of hot cocoa. They’re fun to make and even better to drink!

Chilly nights call for a mug of hot chocolate, but why not upgrade the experience with these vegan cocoa bombs?

Place the bomb in your mug, pour steamed vegan milk on top, and watch the rich chocolate sphere melt away to release the marshmallows and hot cocoa mix. It’s too much fun to resist!

Now, you can join the hot chocolate bomb craze guilt-free with plant-based ingredients.

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Why You’ll Love This Vegan Hot Chocolate Bombs Recipe

These vegan chocolate bombs are easy to make, plus you can customize them however you like!
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Ingredients And Substitutions

Vegan chocolate chips – Make sure you’re using vegan chocolate chips! You can also melt your chocolate with coconut oil for a shinier chocolate shell.

For the hot cocoa filling:

Granulated sugar, cacao powder, and sea salt – We’ll make our own hot chocolate mix powder from scratch, but you can also use any store-bought vegan hot chocolate powder mix.

Mini vegan marshmallows – Are you even doing hot chocolate right without gooey marshmallows?

Optional toppings:

Decorating sugar – The fun part about these vegan hot chocolate bombs is that you can decorate them with various toppings! Decorating sugar is fantastic because it comes in different colors that match the holiday theme.

Melted chocolate – For drizzling.

Cocoa powder – You can also dust your vegan cocoa bombs with unsweetened cocoa powder!

Cacao nibs – They make a delicious and wholesome alternative to candy sprinkles.

Extra vegan marshmallows – You can also make your own vegan marshmallows at home!

Tips For Making This Recipe

Melt the Chocolate in the Microwave Perfectly

Melt the chocolate chips on High for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat. Keep microwaving the mixture in 10-second increments on High, stirring in between, until it’s smooth and completely melted.

Avoid Fingerprints on Your Spheres

Wear food-safe gloves when handling your chocolate spheres to avoid getting fingerprints all over them.

Temper Your Chocolate

Say goodbye to chalky-looking shells and effortlessly remove the spheres from the molds by tempering your chocolate in a double boiler!

Vegan Cocoa Bombs Recipe FAQs

How to close cocoa bombs?

The melted edges of chocolate shells will work like glue to bring the dairy-free hot chocolate bombs together. You can also pour some melted chocolate into a piping bag and pipe it around the center of each closed bomb for a tighter seal.

What is the best mold for cocoa bombs?

Silicone molds are perfect for these homemade dairy-free hot cocoa bombs because you can easily pop the chocolate spheres out of them. If the mold is made from hard plastic, you might have difficulty releasing the chocolate.

Can you make hot chocolate bombs without mold?

This recipe was only tested with molds, but if you don’t have them, try coating the bottom and sides of cupcake liners with chocolate! Fill them with your homemade hot cocoa mix and top them with more chocolate to enclose the vegan hot chocolate bombs.

How to store homemade hot chocolate bombs?

These vegan hot cocoa bombs can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for a week or two.

How do you use hot chocolate bombs?

To serve, add one vegan chocolate bomb to a mug and pour warm milk over it to melt the chocolate shell. Stir and enjoy! Try these bombs with almond milk or cashew milk!

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Vegan Hot Chocolate Bombs

These vegan hot chocolate bombs will turn your favorite plant-based milk into the perfect cup of hot cocoa. They're fun to make and even better to drink!

Louisa

Prep Time 35

Cook Time 5

Total Time 40

Equipment

Ingredients

1 cup vegan chocolate chips

For the hot cocoa filling:

Optional toppings:

Instructions

Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave at 30-second intervals until completely smooth.
Place 1 tablespoon of the melted chocolate in the center of each mold. Using a pastry brush, swirl it around the mold to cover all sides. Freeze for 3 minutes.
Remove the mold from the freezer and repeat the process, filling the molds with a tablespoon of melted chocolate at a time and freezing each layer.
Once you’ve used up the melted chocolate, freeze the shells for 15 minutes.
Carefully remove the spheres from the molds and set aside.
Combine the sugar, cacao powder, and salt in a small bowl.
Divide the mixture and marshmallows between 3 of the chocolate domes.
Warm a plate in the microwave for 30 to 45 seconds.
Place the unfilled sphere halves on the warm plate for 5 seconds to melt their edges.
Sandwich the filled and unfilled spheres together. Decorate the vegan hot chocolate bombs with your choice of toppings.
Refrigerate for at least 5 minutes to set, and you're done. You can also place the hot chocolate bombs in cupcake liners.

Notes

Melt the chocolate chips on High for 30 seconds, stir, and repeat. Keep microwaving the mixture in 10-second increments on High, stirring in between, until it’s smooth and completely melted.
Wear food-safe gloves when handling your chocolate spheres to avoid getting fingerprints all over them.
Say goodbye to chalky-looking shells and effortlessly remove the spheres from the molds by tempering your chocolate in a double boiler!

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