50+ Hot Chocolate Bomb Flavors to Make

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Hot chocolate cocoa bombs are really popular to make and the flavor possibilities are endless. If you’re looking for different hot chocolate cocoa bomb flavors here are over 50+ ideas. Whether you’re making these at home with your family or starting a small business selling them here is a list of delicious flavors to make for your hot cocoa bombs.

Hot Chocolate bombs generally are a chocolate sphere shell and inside are things like cocoa mix, marshmallows, crushed candy canes, and various other fillers depending on which flavor you choose. They can be used with hot water, hot milk, or even coffee.

Hot Chocolate Bombs Flavors

There are so many flavor possibilities when it comes to hot cocoa bombs. Here I’ll give you flavor ideas and how to make those flavors come to life.

Classic Flavors

White Chocolate – White chocolate shell with white cocoa and marshmallows.

Dark Chocolate – Dark chocolate shell with cocoa and marshmallows.

Milk Chocolate – Chocolate cocoa with mini chocolate chips & mini marshmallows in a milk chocolate shell. You can decorate the top of the shell by drizzling it with white and regular chocolate, 2 mini marshmallows, and mini chocolate chips. Looking for a Gluten-Free Option? Check out this Gluten-Free Hot Chocolate Bomb from Creative Green Living.

Gourmet Flavors

Gingerbread – Use your favorite chocolate shell, add cocoa, and some spices to make a gingerbread cocoa bomb. See my recipe.

Red Velvet – There are a few ways to do red velvet hot chocolate bombs.

• use red candy melts for the shell and red velvet hot chocolate mix.
• use red velvet melts for the shell with regular hot chocolate mix. You can also add red velvet chips with the marshmallows.
• the shell of your choice and for the cocoa mix you can use red velvet pudding.

White Chocolate peppermint – white chocolate cocoa with freshly ground peppermint candies or candy canes and a peppermint chocolate shell. You can make a peppermint shell by adding peppermint candy ground into a powder mixed into the shell. To grind the peppermint candy you can use a spice grinder or something like a ninja bullet. You could even try using candy cane Hershey kisses for the shell on these!

Peppermint Bark – Similar to the White Chocolate Peppermint, but this combines dark chocolate. Get the recipe.

Pumpkin Spice – Pumpkin spice white chocolate cocoa with pumpkin spice marshmallows in a cinnamon white chocolate shell. To make the cinnamon white chocolate shell add some cinnamon to your melted white chocolate.

Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie – Chocolate shell, oatmeal cookie hot chocolate, and marshmallows.

Cookies N Cream – Cookies & cream hot cocoa with chopped cookies n’ cream Hershey chocolate & mini marshmallows in a cookies n cream shell. To make cookies and cream shells make a white chocolate shell and add in ground-up oreo cookies. You’ll want to grind the cookies up into a powder.

Sugar Cookie – Get the recipe.

Salted Caramel Oreo – Get the recipe.

Andes Mint Chocolate – Chocolate cocoa with chopped Andes mints & mini marshmallows in a mint chocolate shell. For the shell, melt a few Andes mint chocolates into your almond bark or chocolate and mix.

Cinnamon Roll – White chocolate cocoa and add in some cinnamon, cinnamon twist marshmallows (yumello is the brand), white chocolate shell with cinnamon mixed in.

French Vanilla – White chocolate shell, white cocoa hot chocolate mixed with French vanilla creamer.

Hazelnut – Chocolate shell, chocolate cocoa mix, and hazelnut cream powder.

Cereal Milk Cocoa – Grind up the cereal of your choice in your blender, food processor, or ninja bullet until fine. Mix the powder with the shell chocolate. For inside use white chocolate cocoa mixed with a tiny bit of the cereal and mini marshmallows. Great cereal options include Cocoa Puffs, Lucky Charms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Fruit Loops, and Crunch Berries.

Salted Caramel Apple Cider – Salted caramel candy melts for the shell. Use an entire packet of instant apple cider. Add a caramel drizzle to the top of the shell. You don’t use milk for these bombs, hot water only.

French Vanilla – White chocolate shell with french vanilla cocoa mix and marshmallows.

S’mores – Chocolate/graham cracker shell with cocoa mix and marshmallows. Drizzle chocolate on top and sprinkle with some graham cracker crumbs and 2 mini marshmallows. To get a graham cracker dust you’ll grind graham crackers in your blender device. You can also use a S’mores cocoa mix in the cocoa bomb instead of a chocolate cocoa mix.

Butterbeer – Butterbeer Hot Chocolate bomb is made with white chocolate wafers and butterscotch chips melted together. So 1 bag of white chocolate and 1/2 c of butterscotch chips. Fill with 1tbsp white hot chocolate mix and 1/2tbsp butterscotch pudding. Drizzle melted butterscotch chips on top.

Salted Caramel – Salted caramel shell with cocoa mix and marshmallows. Drizzle caramel on the top of the bomb. To make the salted caramel cocoa shell you can use the Wilton Salted Caramel melts. OR you can make a chocolate shell and fill it with salted caramel hot cocoa. Inside the shell with the cocoa, you can add some ground up caramel bits. You’ll need to grind them into a powder because they do not melt in the cocoa.

Chocolate Peppermint – Chocolate shell with peppermint cocoa mix and marshmallows.

Snickerdoodle – White chocolate shell with white-hot cocoa mix. Add in a little bit of cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla bean powder. Get my recipe.

Butterscotch – Chocolate or butterscotch shell with butterscotch cocoa. To make a butterscotch shell use butterscotch chips.

Strawberry – White chocolate shell with Strawberry mix (nesquick) and marshmallows.

Peanut butter – Chocolate shell with peanut butter nibs, peanut butter cup cocoa, and marshmallows. Get the full recipe.

Mexican Hot chocolate – Chocolate spiced shell with Mexican hot cocoa, and marshmallows. To make the chocolate spice shell pick your chocolate and add some cinnamon to it. You could also cayenne pepper too. Get my recipe.

Raspberry – Dark chocolate shell with raspberry hot cocoa mix and marshmallows inside. Drizzled with white chocolate.

Chocolate Strawberry – Chocolate sell, strawberry Nesquik, and grind up freeze-dried strawberries and add some inside the bomb. You can even use them as decoration on top of the bomb.

Banana – White chocolate shell and banana pudding or banana Nesquik. If you want a Bananas Foster Hot Chocolate bomb you can add a caramel drizzle on top.

Eggnog – White chocolate shell with Eggnog Drink Mix. Add a pinch of nutmeg to the Eggnog drink mix and sprinkle a little more on top of the cocoa bomb for decoration.

Horchata – White chocolate shell with horchata drink mix. Sprinkle some cinnamon on top of the cocoa bomb.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough – White chocolate shell, vanilla pudding, and chocolate creme coffeemate creamer. Add some chocolate chips inside too.

Orange Chocolate – Orange candy melts, hot chocolate mix, and a chocolate orange slice for garnish. Get the recipe.

Chocolate Cherry – Dark chocolate and add cherry flavoring to your melted chocolate, use chocolate cocoa mix, and add dried crushed cherries as a garnish on top. To use the flavoring follow the directions on their website.

Coffee Bombs

In addition to Hot Chocolate Bombs, you can make bombs that are coffee-flavored or that can be added to flavor your coffee. When it comes to making a coffee hot chocolate bomb you’re going to mix your bomb with hot milk if you add a coffee mix inside of it. You’ll want to use instant coffee mixes for these coffee bombs. Here are some ideas.

Creamer Drop Bombs – smaller spheres filled with creamer for coffee. Fill with about 1-2 teaspoons of powdered creamer. This sphere works good.

French Vanilla Cappuccino – White chocolate shell, french vanilla cappuccino mix, sprinkle of cinnamon.

Caramel Cappuccino – Shell of your choice and caramel cappuccino mix.

Cinnamon Dulce Cappuccino – White shell with some cinnamon mixed in and cinnamon dulce cappuccino mix.

Chocolate Orange Coffee – Chocolate shell and orange cafe.

Pumpkin Spice Latte – White chocolate shell with pumpkin spice added and pumpkin spice latte mix.

Chocolate Espresso – Chocolate shell and instant espresso mix.

Peppermint Mocha – Chocolate shell and peppermint mocha mix. Add some peppermint bits to the top.

English Toffee – White chocolate shell or butterscotch chips shell and English toffee mix.

Chocolate Hazelnut – Chocolate shell and hazlenut mix.

Caramel Macchiato – Salted caramel shell with caramel macchiato cocoa mix and marshmallows.

Cinnamon Vanilla Chai – This is a teat, but a white chocolate cinnamon shell with cinnmaon vanilla chai mix.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough – A chocolate shell of your choice, chocolate chips inside, and cookie dough coffee.

Chocolate Cherry Mocha – Dark or Milk chocolate shell, cherry mocha mix, and add dried crushed cherries as a garnish.

Another idea for Coffee Bombs is making a creamer bomb (listed above) and pairing it with a k-cup. There are so many flavored coffees available in k-cups that you could offer a smaller bomb with chocolate and flavored powder creamer. Then pair it with a k-up that it would work with. Example: Chocolate bomb with a caramel creamer. Pair it with caramel coffee k-cup. Make the k-cup how you normally would and add the creamer bomb into the hot cup of coffee.

Fun Hot Chocolate Bombs

Family Size – Make a giant hot chocolate bomb to give as gifts.

Coal – Use black candy melts or very dark chocolate for the shell. Fill it with your preferred hot chocolate mix, like dark chocolate or another chocolate flavor, and add in oreo covered marshmallows. To cover the marshmallows cover the Oreos in chocolate and then roll around in crushed oreo crumbs.

Grinch – Use green candy melts for the shell, peppermint white cocoa for inside, and place a heart on top of the bomb.

Mickey Mouse – Use red candy melts for the shell, your preferred cocoa mix, and add mickey mouse sprinkles to the top of the shell.

Funfetti Cake Batter – White chocolate shell with colorful sprinkles added. 1tbsp vanilla pudding, sprinkles, and marshmallows.

Strawberry Cheesecake – Pink or White chocolate shell. You could even swirl the 2 together for a marble look. 1 tsp cheesecake pudding mix and 1 tsp strawberry Nesquik to the bomb. Add ground up freeze-dried strawberries and graham crackers to the top.

Unicorn – use a white chocolate shell, you could add sprinkles to the white chocolate. For the unicorn part, you’ll use unicorn horn sprinkles, cut a mini marshmallow in half and dip the sticky side into pink sugar crystals, and draw on eyes with an edible pen or chocolate. Or you can use this unicorn decorating kit. See how Midget Momma makes her Unicorn Hot Cocoa Bombs.

Snowman – Get the full tutorial from Julie Blanner.

Rudolph the Reindeer – Get the recipe.

What Size Mugs to Use with Hot Cocoa Bombs

I’ve had a few people reach out and ask which mugs to use for hot chocolate bombs. If you’re making smaller sized bombs that are about 2 inches then a standard size coffee mug should work fine. If you’re making larger sized bombs, like the 70mm or 3-inch ones, you’ll need an oversized mug. I like this 18oz oversized mug, but it keeps going out of stock. So I’ll link some other oversized coffee mug suggestions below. Also, check out Target. I found some in-store there as well.

Where to Buy Hot Chocolate Bomb Molds

There are so many places selling hot chocolate bomb molds, but due to the popularity of them shipping can take a few weeks on sites like Amazon. When I bought my molds on Amazon several weeks ago I received them quickly, but that has since changed and molds are taking 3+ weeks to come. Here are some other places to buy Hot Chocolate Bomb Molds:

LanasMilkBombs – On Etsy! I actually purchased a mold from her because my Amazon mold was way too big. I placed my order on Friday and it shipped within 24 hours and I received it 6 days later. The 70MM is the perfect size for a hot chocolate bomb.

TheAuntieMCo – Their page says molds will arrive within 1-2 weeks of ordering.

SweetBerrytreatsShop – Their page says molds will arrive within 1-2 weeks of ordering.

When it comes to making hot chocolate bombs you don’t have to use a sphere mold. You can use shapes like a rose, heart, disc, or snowflake. You can also try to use a silicone ice mold. I picked up a snowflake mold from my local Michael’s store and they also had a Flat Disc Mold that would work. Just make sure the mold you’re getting is big enough to make a cocoa bomb. You would follow the same steps as when you use a sphere mold.

Hot Chocolate Bomb Tutorials (Video)

If you’re wondering how to make hot chocolate bombs check out some of my tutorials. There is a video available.

• Mexican Hot Chocolate Bomb
• Mickey Mouse Hot Cocoa Bomb
• Gingerbread Hot Chocolate Bomb

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