While the water is coming to a boil, mix the cocoa powder (or matcha powder or butterfly pea powder if you're making those versions) and tapioca starch together if you’re making black or colored boba pearls. I sometimes use a cake cooling rack (with 1 cm grids), and press it into the dough to create the squares.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Also remember that the boba pearls are initially cooked until they are ALMOST translucent in the center. Cooking them further in the syrup will also turn the boba pearls completely translucent (if they weren't before). Our high quality Tapioca Pearls serves exactly it's purpose - to allow any bubble tea expert to create delicious blend out of flavoured powder, sweetener and creamer.McDonald's restaurants in Germany and Austria were temporarily selling the dessert beverage as part of their revamped McCafé menu in 2012. Simply cook the pearls to perfection and combine them with your choice of tea or other delicious concoctions to create a delightful bubble tea experience. This generally works and I have tried it in 3 different brands and had success but I had to adjust the ratio in one of them. In Taiwan, it is more common for people to refer to bubble tea as pearl milk tea (zhēn zhū nǎi chá, 珍珠奶茶) because originally, small tapioca pearls with a 1⁄ 12 in) diameter were used.

When I first started making boba pearls at home, I followed a very poorly written and explained recipe online.To prevent this, you must make a starter dough by mixing tapioca starch with boiling water to make a gelatinous mass.