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homemade chocolate boba
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Homemade Brownie Chocolate Boba

Delicious boba from a scratch
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Course: Drinks
Keyword: Black Tea, Boba Tea, Chocolate
Servings: 1

Equipment

  • small saucepan (for making sugar syrup, cooking boba pearls and making chocolate syrup)
  • Flat saucepan
  • Kettle
  • Serving glass

Ingredients

For the bottom chocolate layer:

  • 80 ml milk
  • 1 teaspoon butter
  • 3 teaspoon brown sugar
  • 4 teaspoons cocoa powder

For milk tea:

  • 220 ml water
  • 1 heaped teaspoon roasted Dian Hong tea
  • 1 tablespoon condensed milk
  • 30 grams black sugar boba pearls
  • Ice

For sugar syrup

  • 4 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 50 ml water

Instructions

  • Combine 4 heaped tablespoons of brown sugar and 50 ml of water in a small saucepan. Bring it to a boil over medium heat and stir gently until sugar dissolves. Reduce the heat to low and let it simmer for3-4 minutes.
  • Cook boba pearls per instruction on the packaging and coat them in sugar syrup. You don’t need to use all syrup, just enough to cover all pearls.
  • Add milk, sugar and sifted cocoa powder into a small saucepan. Simmer over low heat until it thickens. While simmering, stir using a spoon or a whisk until smooth. Turn off the heat, add butter and stir.
  • Preheat a flat saucepan, add tea leaves and dry roast them for 5-10 seconds on medium heat until fragrant.
  • Bring water to a boil and steep 1 heaped teaspoon of dry roasted tea leaves in 220 ml of water for about 3 minutes.
  • Pour chocolate syrup into a serving glass.
  • Add syrup coated boba pearls.
  • Add ice cubes.
  • Gently pour tea over ice cubes.
  • Add 1-2 tablespoons of condensed milk and serve.