**A Delicious Experiment: Making Boba at Home**
As I sit here with my dough, I can barely contain my excitement. The look isn't that gorgeous? No, it's absolutely stunning! Look at that beautiful color. I'm gonna work with about half of it at a time, and yes, but you want to keep the other half wrapped up while we're working with this half. So, we're just gonna make snakes here and then we're gonna cut the snakes into little pieces. The boba will expand a little bit while we're boiling them, so make your snakes kind of skinny. This is my first time making boba by the way, so I'm certainly no expert. This is just based on what I've witnessed in videos.
**Shaping and Cooking the Boba**
So, we've got our snakes and now we're going to cut our pieces as such. See how those pieces are all out? Now it's time to cook them. Tree shows a technique where you take three of them and put them in your hand and then roll all at the same time, and you get three boba. Boba is what I'll be back with when I've rolled all my boba into balls. Now that I've rolled out and shaped my boba, I'm going to add them to a pot of boiling water. Gonna stir this around because we don't want them to stick to each other or to the bottom of the pot.
**The 20-Minute Waiting Game**
Now they're floating on their surface now, we're gonna start the timer for 20 minutes. So after 20 minutes of cooking, we're going to turn off the heat, keep them covered, and let them rest for an additional 20 minutes. Then, we can assemble our drink. Alright, see ya in a bit. Now, we've got our boba on the side here that we've strained.
**Making the Brown Sugar Syrup**
Now we're ready to make our little brown sugar syrup. So we're gonna heat up a pan and we're gonna add 35 grams of Muscovado sugar. Now we don't want the heat on too high, we're not melting this; we're just warming it up. This is the method that I saw in the Xing Fu Tang video that I watched. It's just warm up the brown sugar and then they add the hot freshly cooked boba. Smells incredible! Smells like molasses, brown sugar.
**Assembling Our Drink**
Okay, so we are finally now ready to assemble our drink. Got myself a glass, I'm gonna get my hot boba into my glass. Roll the boba around like this; that's what's gonna give us our Tiger Stripes. Next, we're gonna add some ice. Next, our milk. Now I'm just gonna top it with a little bit of slightly whipped cream on top, just a little. *purses lips* you know? Ahhh, look at it! The tiger stripes disappear pretty quickly, but I did manage to get them.
**Tasting and Enjoying Our Creation**
So stinking beautiful! Yes. Okay. So now we mix this up and doesn't that sound great? Alrighty, let's give this a taste. Itadakimasu! Oh my good... *inaudible sounds* They're so good! It's so stinkin delicious; it's basically like ice cream. You've got the heavy cream on top that mixes with the cold whole milk, I use whole milk. So, it's rich and creamy, it tastes like melted ice cream. That little bit of cream floating on top mixed with the whole milk mixed with that little bit of brown sugar we use to cook the boba; it's a perfect balance of sweetness.
**Conclusion**
It's actually less sugary sweet than ice cream, about the richness and sweet in the combination reminds me of ice cream. It's absolutely wonderful, and the homemade boba is absolutely marvelous. So much better actually than the typical manufactured kind. They're more supple, and more tender but still really great and chewy; they're not hard in the middle. So it's fun! I love it. Mmm! Absolutely love it. Delicious. I don't miss the tea at all. Although I might miss the caffeine later. So scrumptious!
**A Final Thank You**
So, if you're curious, and you've got the time, I would definitely encourage you to attempt this recipe. Be sure to check out the original videos; I will put their links down in the description box.
Thank you guys so much for watching, and big thanks to hellofresh for sponsoring this video! Get eight free meals that's $80 off your first month. But heading over to hellofresh.com and use the code Emmy80.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enGreetings my beautiful lovelies!It's Emmy. Welcome back!Today's video is sponsored by hellofresh the food delivery service that brings fresh seasonal ingredientsright to your doorstep. Get started with eight free meals.That's $80 off your first month by heading over to hellofresh.com and using the code Emmy80.Thanks to hello fresh for sponsoring this video. And today we're going to be makingHOMEMADEBOBABoba! Now a few of you have requested this and I first thought this is insanityWhy would anyone ever make a homemade boba?but then I began to do my research and Ibelieve I see the light. So I did my first boba recipe how to make milk tea boba recipe years agoIt's probably about four years ago now I'll put a link to the baby..i mean video above and down belowBut in that video I use pre-made boba. They come in a package. They're vacuum sealed and you just boil your bobaVery very simple. Today, I'm gonna show you how to actually make those tapioca ballsIf you're not familiar with boba tea, boba tea is a type of teaThat was I believe invented in Taiwan and it has big tapioca pearlsusually they're kind of darker in color andthey're very chewy and bouncy and they're in the bottom of a glass and usually topped with a milk tea. A black tea that isSweetened and enriched with milk and you drink the tea along with the boba pearls at the bottom. So you have this kind of simultaneousEating and drinking experience. It's actually much more delightful than I am describing and deliciousSo I thought the boba craze is over, but it is not it is not. 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Big thanks to hellofresh for sponsoring this video, now let's go make some boba!So boba consists of only three ingredients: tapioca starch, brown sugar, and water. We are going to combine60g of water;now I'm adding 45g of Muscovado sugar --and this contains lots of molasses,that's why it has this dark, brown color --and we're just gonna heat this up until the sugar is dissolved.Now we're turning off the heat and now we're going to add just a spoonful of our tapioca starch.And then once it's combined we're gonna turn the heat back on we're trying to avoid lumps hereSo we're gonna heat this back up until it starts to thicken and then remove it from the heatOkay, okay. Okay, off the heat.Look how its thickened. Isn't that amazing? The remaining tapioca starchNow it looks like a lot of starch but eventually this will all combineinto the doughNow we're ready to knead now. We're gonna use a little extra tapioca flour sprinkle our counter.At Xing Fu Tang, they use a stand mixer to actually mix this together. But since this is such a small amount, I'm just gonna knead it.It's also what cooking tree does in their videos. Now, we're gonna need this until everything is nicely incorporatedAnd a little bit more tapioca if we need itThis is so great, it's so supple. Listen to that sound, isn't that great?Now we have this beautiful doughLook isn't that gorgeous? Look at that beautiful color. I'm gonna work with about half of it at a timeYeah, but you want to keep the other half wrapped up while we're working with this halfSo we're just gonna make snakes here and then we're gonna cut the snakes into little piecesNow the boba will expand a little bit while we're boiling them, so make your snakes kind of skinnyThis is my first time making boba by the way, so I'm certainly no expert. This is just based onwhat I've witnessed in videos.So we've got oursnakes and now we're going to cut our piecesas so.See how those pieces are all outCooking tree shows a technique where you take three of them and put them in your hand and then roll all at the same timeAnd you get three?Bobba, so I'll be back when I've rolled all my boba into ballsNow that I've rolled out and shaped my boba, I'm going to add them to a pot of boiling waterGonna stir this aroundBecause we don't want them to stick to each other or to the bottom of the potSo now they're floating on their surface now, we're gonna start the timer for 20 minutesSo after 20 minutes of cookingWe're gonna turn off the heat keep them covered and let them rest for additional 20 minutes, then we can assemble our drinkAlright, see ya in a bit. Now, we've got our boba on the side here that we've strainedNow we're ready to make our little brown sugar syrup. So we're gonna heat up a pan and we're gonna add35 grams of Muscovado sugarNow we don't want the heat on too high, we're not melting this we're just warming it upSo this is the method that I saw in the Xing Fu Tang video that I watchedIt just warm up the brown sugar and then they add the hot freshly cooked bobaSmells incredible smells like molasses, brown sugarThis is sugar and sugar burns really easily so we don't want this to burnWe just want everything to be nice and melty and glorious. Oh, that's so goodOkay, so we are finally now ready to assemble our drink. Got myself a glassI'm gonna get my hot boba into my glassAnd roll the boba around like thisand that's what's gonna give us our Tiger Stripes. Next, we're gonna add some ice. Next, our milk.Now I'm just gonna top it with a little bit of slightly whipped cream on top just a little, *purses lips* you knowAhhh, look at it!The tiger stripes disappear pretty quickly, but I did manage to get them. I'm so so pleasedSo stinkingBeautiful. Yes. Okay. So now we mix this up and doesn't that sound great?Alrighty, let's give this a taste. Itadakimasu!Oh my good- *inaudible sounds*They're so good!It's so stinkin delicious, it's basically like ice creamYou've got the heavy cream on top that mixes with the cold whole milk, I use whole milkSo it's rich and creamy it tastes like melted ice creamThat little bit of cream floating on topmixed with the whole milk mixed with that little bit of brown sugar that we use to cook the boba andPerfect balance of sweetness. It's actually lessSugary sweet than ice cream about the richness and sweet in the combination reminds me of ice cream. It's absolutely wonderful and the homemade bobaAbsolutely marvelous. So much better actually than the typical manufactured kind. They're more suppleand more tender but still really great and chewy, but they're not hard in the middleSo it's fun!I love it. Mmm!Absolutely love it. Delicious. I don't miss the tea at all. Although I might miss the caffeine laterSo scrumptious, I love this. So if you're curious and you've got the time, I would definitely encourage you to attempt this recipeBe sure to check out the original videos. I will put their links down the description boxThank you guys so much for watching and big thanks to hellofresh for sponsoring this video! Get eight free mealsThat's $80 off your first month. But heading over to hellofresh.com and use the code Emmy80.Thank you guys again for watching. I hope you guys enjoyed that one. I hope you guys learned somethingPlease share this video with your friendsFollow me on social media. Like this video. Subscribe and I shall see in the next one. Todaloo, take careB Y E ~So good*more inaudible sounds*\n"
