this video is sponsored by boksu isn't it curious how bubble tea seems to be one of these food items truly dividing humanity plenty of people actually love the taste and the textural variety that bubble tea gives you especially you know with the bubbles while to others bubble tea is an unbearable punishment for the exact same reason me as a self-proclaimed food diplomat i'm somewhere right in the middle if it's good tea and it's not too sweet i actually really love it plus i recently learned that hot bubble tea is dare i say better than cold even this by the way is certainly not the good kind of bubble tea i just really needed a prop for the intro okay but here's the thing my biggest gripe with bubble tea is that while i actually really enjoy the flavor as long as it's good i don't particularly enjoy chugging like a half liter of milky stuff it's almost like something that you want to be a snack actually becoming more of a whole meal in itself but then i had an idea and started playing around with a recipe that combines bubble tea and boba with one of my all-time favorite desserts which is egg tart these egg tarts are originally portuguese but they're also a thing in a lot of other places that portugal colonized back in the day like for example macau and china and you know what after a couple of rounds of testing i actually managed to develop a stupid easy recipe that surprisingly works really really well and does indeed give you bubble tea flavored and boba textured egg tarts that might be able to convince even the fiercest of bubble tea critics still terrible and if you want to know how easy this really is look at that that's all the ingredients we're gonna need but let's talk about this one first this is puff pastry and yes it is obviously store bought now we're gonna make our egg tarts in a muffin pan so you're gonna need a cookie cutter or just a cup that's about a centimeter wider on each side to punch out our puff pastry circles now if you really want to impress someone you can make puff pastry yourself of course be my guest if you're up for that it's only gonna make things better but let's be realistic we're all gonna buy puff pastry and be done in five minutes rather than five hours all right now grease your muffin pan lightly and try to carefully get your circles in there it's gonna feel a little awkward at times but hey i believe in you you can do it and also if you prefer a slightly cleaner look you can certainly pinch the excess dough a bit so it looks a little less messy but hey that's just optics do make sure to keep this in the fridge while we work on the rest of our recipe all right now let's get to the actual tea part of the bubble tea egg tart recipe you're gonna need some loose leaf earl grey tea i think this variety works best because it really has an intense black tea fragrance that will be able to cut through a whole lot of sugar and other stuff it's really important to steep that tea in what's gonna seem like a ridiculously small amount of piping hot water for about five minutes before you strain it in whatever way seems to work best we really need this to be very strong to
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