How to Make Hot Tea Bombs
These sugar free hot tea bombs will bring your favorite drink to the next level. These trendy viral Tiktok drinks are made using loose tea or tea bags and dried edible flowers, enclosed in a hard, brightly colored shell made of isomalt crystals. When you drop the tea globe into hot water, the shell melts, and the tea explodes into your mug. Give this recipe a try if you are looking for a fun blooming twist on typical hot tea.
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup Isomalt crystals
- gel food color
- 2 tea bags or 2 teaspoons of loose tea
Optional ingredients
- Dried edible flowers
- Dried herbs
- Edible glitter
- Sugar cubes
Instructions
- Melt isomalt crystals in a small saucepan over medium-high heat. If needed, shake pan to facilitate melting. DO NOT STIR.
- When all crystals have melted, work quickly to spoon the mixture into semi-sphere molds. The melted isomalt is very hot and can cause severe burns. Be very careful to avoid contact with skin.
- Add a few drops of gel food coloring into each mold. This will bubble up and sizzle. It's ok.
- Mix food color with melted isomalt using a small spoon.
- Working quickly, use the back of the spoon to spread the colored isomalt mixture over the entire surface of the mold. Do this step as fast as you can, it won’t take long for the mixture to begin to set up.
- Allow the halves to set completely before continuing, approximately 30 minutes.
- Remove the top half of one sphere from the mold by carefully pushing up from bottom. Leave the bottom half in the mold; this will make it easier to assemble the globe.
- Place 1 teabag (or one teaspoon of loose tea) in the bottom half of the globe in the mold along with any edible flowers, sugar cubes, or herbs you want to use. If you're using a teabag, you can either leave the tea bag string outside the mold or tuck it inside.
- Reheat the small saucepan over low heat. This will be used to smooth the globe edges and ease joining the two globes together.
- Place the globe top onto the bottom of the hot pan for just a few seconds to smooth and melt the edge. Quickly join the top to the bottom globe that is still in the mold.
- Allow the tea bomb to cool 5-10 minutes. After 5 minutes, you should be able to remove the entire sphere from the mold by carefully pressing up on the mold to release the bottom half of the globe.
Notes
Making hot tea bombs is more labor intensive than making hot chocolate bombs. Your globes will improve with practice.
If you want to make more than two hot tea bombs, I recommend making multiple batches (and make only two tea bombs per batch of melted isomalt). If you try to double (or triple) the recipe, the isomalt mixture will begin to set up before it can be placed in the molds and spread out to form globes.
Nutrition
Calories: 0.1kcal | Carbohydrates: 0.01g | Sodium: 0.1mg | Potassium: 2mg
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