

I did originally try to pipe the ice cream like the oolong soft serve from bar pa tea, the main inspiration behind this recipe. the shape of the container helps you create a prettier scoop of ice cream, since you can run your ice cream scoop the length of the container and keep building up the ball, rather than aimlessly in a circle around the inside of a pint container. Once the ice cream is churned, i like to transfer it to a long, shallow container and freeze until solid. This milk tea ice cream (which is really a tea ice cream, there's no additional milk or milk tea added) has black tea leaves steeped in a custard base (from melissa clark), which gets churned into ice cream! cooking the eggs, milk and cream might be a little scary if you haven't made ice cream before (or in a while), but in case there's some stubborn scrambled egg bits, you can strain out the egg and you're good to go. I already have an earl grey tea flavored ice cream, and this one is super similar, except that i used black tea instead of earl grey and didn’t top that one with boba (but you definitely could)! Scoop half the tapioca balls into each cup, pour milk tea over top.I love making tea flavored desserts (ahem, this green tea pie even though pies take forever ) and eating tea flavored ice cream (hello, homemade matcha cherry creamsicles and jasmine ice cream from sf's polly ann), so it was only a matter of time before i made milk tea ice cream at home. Shake vigorously to mix and form foam at the top. Once the tea is cooled, add the almond milk to the tea in a container that you can shake. Prepare the tapioca balls as instructed on the package directions (or following my instructions below) and then coat them in 2 tablespoons of honey. Once it is steeped to your liking, remove the tea bags and bring the tea to room temperature. Be careful not to over steep it or the tea will get bitter. To make the tea, steep 4 bags of earl grey tea in 2 cups of boiling water for 2-3 minutes. I am sure you can also find them at an Asian grocery store, or, if you are very ambitious you could make them yourself! I liked that the tapioca balls I ordered also came with the wide mouth straws because they are much larger than any straw you would find at the grocery store and they have to be in order to fit the tapioca balls through so you can enjoy some with each sip! In order to try this at home, I ordered black tapioca balls from here off Amazon. So, you could have bubble tea without the tapioca balls, but I don’t know why you would want to!
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I sometimes joke that I just want a whole cup full of BOBA, hold the tea! I thought that it was called Bubble Tea because of the tapioca balls, a common misconception I found out when I read this article on Eat This, Not That!. The bubbles in bubble tea actually refers to the foam that forms on top of the tea when it is shaken.

When I order a bubble tea I find myself racing through the often very sugary drink just to get to the BOBA or tapioca ball. When I was thinking about making my own tea I wanted to make a version that was much less sweet and lower in sugar. A lot of the time the tea is sweetened with sugary powders or sweetened condensed milk. Many people caution that it is unhealthy because often times it is loaded with a lot of sugar.
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There are so many different variations of the drink. It’s suspected origin only dates back to the 1980s when it because popular in Taiwan. It is a fairly new concept, meaning it does not have deep historical roots. Here in Northern VA we have been seeing new bubble tea shops or existing cafes adding it to their menus all over. Bubble Tea is becoming more and more popular in the US.
