May your summer be filled with lots of sunshine....& bubble tea.

Let’s talk milk tea.

There are so many things I love about it!

It’s unique, satisfying, refreshing, flavorful…..honestly, I almost prefer it over iced coffee *gasp*

I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how simple this whole process really is….you’ll be a pro at making homemade bubble tea in no time!

For today’s recipe, we’re using the lovely aromatic tea known as Earl Grey, and in my opinion it gives the bubble tea a Taro-like flavor. *inserts heart eyes*

Firstly, we start with the tea concentrate. You can make it a couple days in advance and I don’t know if I imagined this but it seemed like the tea flavor deepened the longer it was in the fridge. Why it would IDK, so yeah, probably just my imagination…

Next, you cook those weirdly delicious, little chewy black balls called bobas. I’m using the WuFu Yuan Instant Black Bobas from Amazon. 10/10 would highly recommend. After the bobas have been cooked to texture perfection and are in all their syrupy glory, spoon some ice on top of the bubbles, pour on the concentrate, and add your dairy. Boom. You just made bubble tea.

And it’s so fun, creamy, and absolutely delicious that you’ll make it again and again.

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Creamy Earl Grey Bubble Tea

Ingredients

Tea:

2 qts water
1 cup good quality Earl Grey loose leaf tea*
3/4 cup honey*
1 Tbsp vanilla extract

Bobas

Ice

Heavy Cream

Almond Milk

Milk

Instructions

Bring 2 qts (8 cups) water to a boil. Remove from heat and add 1 cup loose leaf tea. Cover with lid and steep for 20 minutes.
Strain tea into a large glass jar. Add 1 cup honey and 1 Tbsp vanilla and stir until dissolved. Cover and chill overnight. You can make the concentrate a couple days in advance.

Bobas:

Bring 10 cup of water to a boil. Add 1 cup of bobas and stir gently so they don't stick together. Once bobas float to the surface, cook them for 3 minutes* Then turn heat off and cook 3 more minutes.
Strain bobas and immediately add to ice water, stirring gently to loosen bobas and to cool evenly. Strain again, empty into a bowl, and mix with 3 Tbsp granulated sugar or honey.* Stir until syrupy and dissolved.
To assemble bubble tea, spoon bobas into a tall glass. Add crushed ice on top, and fill about 2/3 with chilled concentrate. I like to add a pinch of salt because it brings out the flavor. Add a splash of heavy cream, a pour of almond milk (Earth's Own is my favorite) and fill remainder of glass with regular milk. ENJOY.