Love Cheesecake? Make This Thai Boba Tea
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If you love cheesecake, you are going to love this Thai Boba Tea drink! This Thai Boba Tea with Cheese Foam seriously tastes like cheesecake in a glass! I remember the first time I tried Bubble Tea. It was a Taro Slushie with pearls and it was love at first taste! My drink was icy yet creamy, sweet and full of Taro flavor with chewy brown pearls in the bottom. It tasted like dessert and I was hooked!
If you’re not familiar with bubble tea, it’s an Asian tea-based drink originally from Taiwan. It’s also known as Boba Tea, depending on where you’re located. But regardless what it’s called, it’s essentially a chunky drink consisting of tea, chewy tapioca pearls, jellies, custards, ice, and milk.
Depending on how it’s made, it can be as thick as a milkshake or as thin as iced-tea. While I love the many flavours of Bubble Teas, my favorite part is the chewy pearls and chunky jellies added to the drink. I love sucking the drink from the thick bubble tea straw because you just never know what chunky bits you’re going to get! It’s like a surprise party in the mouth!
A couple of years back, some boutique boba tea shops in Asia started adding foam, a creamy topping, similar to whipped cream, to their bubble tea drinks. One of my favorite creamy topping is Cheese Foam, a somewhat salty foam made with cream cheese. While it does sound somewhat strange to add a salty foam to a sweet drink, the combination of sweet and just a little salty elevates this drink to a whole new level!
This elevated boutique drink can easily be made at home with Teaspoons.co’s Thai Tea Kit and their 5 minute Boba Pearls. Not only is the Ceylon black tea so pretty with its’ deep amber ombre hues, it’s also incredibly delicious with hints of star anise, vanilla, orange, cardamom, and coconut. This Thai Cheese Foam Boba Tea is rich, delicious and tastes like the most exotic cheesecake ever! If you love cheesecake, then you’ll need to make this recipe today!
Teaspoons.co Thai Tea Kit, 5-Minute Pearls and Coconut Jelly may be purchased here
Thai Cheese Foam Boba Tea
Makes 4 servings, may be halved or quartered for smaller servings
- 1/2 cup(125ml) Heavy Cream
- 2 oz(60g) Cream Cheese, Softened
- 2 tbs(27g) Granulated Sugar
- 1/4 cup(60ml) Milk
- 1/2 tsp(3g) Fine Sea Salt
- 4 Packages Teaspoons.CoTapioca Pearls
- 1 cup(250ml) Water
- 1 cup(200g) Demerara Sugar
- 2 cups(500ml) Water
- 6 tsp(9g) Teaspoons.Co Thai Loose Leaf Tea
- 2Tea Filters
- 12 tbs(36g) Teaspoons.Co Milk Tea Creamer
- 6 tbsTeaspoons.Co Coconut Jelly
- Ice
Instructions:
Cheese Foam:
- Add heavy cream into a mixing bowl. Using a whisk or hand mixer, whip until soft peaks form. Set aside.
- In another bowl, add softened cream cheese and sugar whisk until well combined.
- Add milk and salt and mix well.
- Add whipped cream and stir until well combined. Please mixture in the refrigerator to chill until needed.
Brown Sugar Syrup and Pearls
- Remove frozen pearls from packaging and add to a microwaveable bowl. Microwave for 40 seconds, remove and stir. Then return to the microwave for another 25-35 seconds.
- Bring water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add the demerara sugar and stir until fully dissolved.
- Add pearls, stir and set aside.
Thai Tea
- Bring water to a boil.
- Add 3 teaspoons of loose leaf tea into a tea filter. Repeat for next tea filter. Place tea filters into a heat-proof container. Add the hot water and allow the tea to steep for 5-10 minutes.
- Add milk tea creamer and whisk until smooth.
To assemble:
- Add 2-3 tablespoon of brown sugar syrup to each glass, or to taste.
- Divide the pearls between the glasses.
- Divide the coconut jelly between the glasses.
- Top the glasses ¾ full with ice.
- Pour the tea into the glasses.
- Top with 2-3 tablespoons of cheese foam. Add a bubble tea straw. Enjoy!
