Viral TikTok video of unique 'cocoa bomb' leads to successful business for Blackfoot resident

Left Photo: Blackfoot resident Eric Torres Garcia stands with his outstretched arms in front of his team at Eric's Original Cocoa Bombs. Right Photo: Thanks to a viral Tik Tok video, Eric Torres Garcia launched a business making "cocoa bombs" — a chocolate ball filled with hot cocoa powder and marshmallows that erupts when hot milk is poured over it.

With $15 and a dream, Blackfoot resident Eric Torres Garcia posted a video on TikTok in 2019 sharing his invention of the "cocoa bomb" — a chocolate ball filled with hot cocoa powder and marshmallows that erupts when hot milk is poured over it.

Garcia had just graduated college, was low on finances and sleeping on a friend's couch when he took $15, went to the local dollar store and Walmart to purchase the ingredients for the first cocoa bomb and later posted the life-changing video.

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A collection of cocoa bombs that Blackfoot resident Eric Torres Garcia centered his business around thanks to a viral 2019 Tik Tok video.

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