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Easy Tea Bomb Recipe

How to make an easy tea bomb with Isomalt
Course Drinks
Keyword tea bomb
Prep Time 30 minutes
Resting Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 30 minutes
Servings 4
Cost $7

Equipment

  • small pan
  • half sphere mold
  • heat protective gloves

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Melt: Melt your Isomalt in a small pan on low heat until melted (I used about 1/4 cup per full sphere). I like to shake the pan a bit rather than stirring every now and then (the crystals just stick to your spoon and shaking it does the mixing job well enough).
  • Pour: Once melted, pour some melted Isomalt into your mold and tilt and rotate your mold so that the liquid coats the inside of the sphere half. You are trying to get it as close to the top edge as you can, but if you are a little under the lip that’s OK. I pour in more than I think I will need and then pour any excess back into the pot so you are just using enough to cover the mold. You can also use the back of a spoon to spread the Isomalt around the mold, which works fine, but the overall dome will be a little lumpier looking on the inside if that’s OK with you. Note: Isomalt, like sugar, gets extremely hot when melted, so wearing heat protective gloves when handling liquid Isomalt or sugar is recommended.
  • Remove: Allow the Isomalt to fully cool (I’d give it at least two hours, some people wait until the next day) and carefully peel back the mold to pop your shells out (you can push up from under the middle of the mold). I would always make a few extra as you never know which ones will break.
    TIP: If you break any shells when popping them out of the mold (hey, it happens!), you can melt the broken ones back down to pour again so you don’t waste any Isomalt!
  • Flatten Edges: Once the shells are out, warm a pan over low heat and place one of your spheres upside down on the pan to melt the edges and flatten your edges so it will seal better.
  • Fill the bombs: Fill the half sphere with your tea (tea bag string/tag hanging out if it has a string), dried edible flowers, and edible glitter or sprinkles.
  • Seal the bomb: Warm the second half of your sphere on the pan to flatten the edges and attach that half to the half filled with tea while still warm so it will seal together. Now your tea bomb is ready to use!
  • Enjoy! Pour however much hot water (or hot milk if using a powdered tea like this Pink Kashmiri Chai-so yummy!) over your tea that is called for by the tea amount you put in the sphere, watch your sphere melt and allow the tea to steep the appropriate time before drinking. Thin Isomalt spheres will completely dissolve in the tea, but if you have a chunkier section it may take longer to melt.

Notes

Tea bombs will store for up to two weeks uncovered.