Cool and refreshing milk tea with coffee jelly is so easy to make and fun to drink. Make some and impress your friends. You know you want to. 😉
Get ready for another edition of Tracy tries to make you watch something she loves. If your heart is hardened against this, just scroll right down to the recipe. 🙂
Hey, are you watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? If yes, yay!
If no, do you like musicals? Do you like hi-jinks? Do you like having your pants charmed off? Yes? Yes? Yes? Then you should be!!
Crazy Ex-girlfriend gif Rebecca and Paula celebrating.
CW via Tumblr
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is so funny, a little bit bawdy, and completely fantastic. I caught up with the show over the summer (all of season 1 is on Netflix) and I’m totally hooked.
Season two premieres tonight, which gives me the perfect excuse to post a recipe I’ve been dying to make on the blog forever: Milk Tea with Coffee Jelly!
Two glasses of milk tea with spoonful of coffee jelly.
What does milk tea and coffee jelly have to do with Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? Well, the characters on this show spend an ungodly amount of time at their local Boba stand (it’s basically their Central Perk). And my favorite thing to order at bubble tea places is Milk Tea with Coffee Jelly.
Plus, this is one of the few bubble tea menu options you can make at home without having to order tapioca pearls from Amazon. (Though if you want to, by all means, do!)
The milk tea part of this recipe is very simple: strongly brewed black tea, a little milk or cream, a little sugar. You brew the tea hot and then let it chill while you make your coffee jelly.
And the coffee jelly is literally just coffee, water, a packet of gelatin, and sugar. Stir the ingredients together and let it firm up in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
When you are ready to serve, all you have to do is cut the jello, mix your tea, and you’re ready to go.
I love, love, love making this for people, because it’s delicious, but it’s also pretty novel. As popular as Boba is in some places, there are tons of people who have never heard of it before, so serving them coffee jelly in their drink is a fun surprise! Plus, it’s just a damn refreshing treat. …Just like Crazy Ex-girlfriend. (Seriously, WATCH IT!) 😉
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Milk Tea with Coffee Jelly Notes
You can serve these with a large boba straw if you want to order them*. I serve them with a spoon.
You will probably have some coffee jelly left over. Enjoy it with a spoonful of lightly sweetened whipped cream over the top.
Milk Tea with Coffee Jelly
Ingredients
Coffee Jelly
- 1 packet gelatin (2 1/4 teaspoons)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons water
- 2 heaping tablespoons (35g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup very hot strong coffee
Milk Tea
- 3 cups hot water
- 3 bags black tea
- 2 tablespoons (25g) granulated sugar (adjust to taste)
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream or milk
Instructions
- In a medium bowl, stir together gelatin and water. Allow gelatin to bloom for 3 to 5 minutes before stirring in sugar and very hot coffee. Stir until sugar and gelatin are completely dissolved.
- Transfer mixture to a 7x5-inch dish. Refrigerate until solid, at least three hours.
- While your coffee jelly is firming up, add tea bags to hot water and brew very strong black tea. Allow to cool slightly before placing in the refrigerator to chill.
- Once jelly is firm and tea cold, stir together tea, sugar, and cream. Add more sugar and cream to taste. Cut jello into 1/2-inch cubes (slightly smaller if serving with a straw), and add to your glass until the glass is about 1/3 of the way full. Pour in milk tea.
- Serve with a spoon (or a boba straw) and enjoy!
Coffee Jelly Adapted From Japanese Cooking 101
grace m says
can you replace the coffee with tea???
Tracy says
Should work just fine!
Lisa says
Hi I made the jelly but would like to know how I can store it?
Tracy says
Hi, you can store it just like regular jello, covered in the fridge. Hope you enjoy it!
Kimberly J Ballard says
I have never heard of this drink before but I did just post your caramel machiatto recipe on fb……. HAVE to try this. I’m a coffeeaholic so I feel sure I will like it.
Tracy says
Hope you enjoy it! I’ve shared it with some people who thought it was a little too odd, but my more adventurous coffeeholic friends and family have loved it. 🙂
Judy says
I love everything about this post: coffee jelly, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (it makes me feel warm, like glitter is exploding inside me). I just came across coffee jelly milk tea while on vacay and need to make some when I get home. Thank you!!
Tracy says
Yeeeeeeeeeeeees! If I could heart this comment a million times, I would! 😉 That’s exactly the way I feel about Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and I also tried coffee jelly milk tea for the first time while on vacation and immediately had to figure out how to make it at home!