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- Greetings, my beautiful lovelies.
It's Emmy, welcome back.
Today I'm going to be
making Dalgona coffee.
Dalgona coffee is everywhere.
You're seeing it all over TikTok,
you're seeing it all over Instagram.
And it is a beautiful
striking-looking coffee
in which it's kind of reversed.
Rather than having your
milk or foam on the top,
you've got your coffee foam on top
and the milk on bottom.
It is just striking and beautiful,
but the best thing about it
is that you can whip it up yourself.
It looks very fancy and gourmet,
but you just need three ingredients.
You'll need milk, you need sugar,
you need instant coffee powder and water.
So technically four ingredients.
Ice cubes if you want this chilled
and you can just whip
this up in your kitchen.
Now what's interesting about this
is it kind of blew up in South Korea
because everyone is on lock down,
everyone's staying home and
socially distancing themselves
from everyone during this coronavirus
and everyone is inside and
looking for things to do.
So, this beautiful striking
thing is really easy to make
and so many people are
posting it on social media
because it is so striking and I'm going
to be making it today
but I'm going to be doing
a couple other versions as well.
I've also read that you can
make this with matcha powder
which is green tea powder
and cocoa powder as well
because a lot of you may not
have instant coffee powders.
Now, I have really high hopes
that this is going to work
because just a couple months ago
I did this amazing, magical
coffee whipped topping made
from the same stuff, this
freeze-dried coffee crystals.
It's absolutely incredible.
You just take some cold
water, this and sugar
and you whip it up and it
becomes this gorgeous whipped topping.
It looks like meringue
and it has the same
consistency as meringue.
It has a really great standing power.
I had mine sitting in the
refrigerator for hours
and it's just gorgeous.
No eggs, no dairy, it was incredible.
It really is magical.
So, the results were spectacular,
so I have a lot of confidence
that this recipe will work as well.
So, a little background
about Dalgona coffee.
It actually originates from
Macao, India, and Pakistan
where it's known as whipped coffee.
I learned that from my last video.
Many of you left that in the comments.
I'm like, oh, that's so interesting.
You can just whip this up
and have it as a coffee.
Some people actually store
this kind of whipped mixture
in the refrigerator and then just add it
with a little bit of water,
hot water to get this nice,
frothy, hot coffee drink.
So this was made popular in South Korea
by an actor named Jung
ll-woo who tasted it in Macao
and said that it had flavors of Dalgona.
Now, Dalgona is a sweet treat
that you can find in Korea
and it's similar in texture
to honeycomb or sea foam.
It's made with caramelized sugar
with a little bit of baking
soda and it puffs up.
It has that great kind
of spongey, hard texture.
That's similar to Dalgona.
So, that's how it's got it's name
and that's where it comes from.
Now, let's go ahead and try
making this for ourselves.
So, let's do the traditional one first
and you're gonna need some of this
and this is just freeze-dried
instant coffee powder.
So, I'm gonna be using my hand mixer.
Also if you don't have a hand mixer
you can also do this with a whisk
and I've read that if you
whisk it around 400 times
you should be able to get
this frothy confection.
But since I have a hand
mixer, I'm gonna use it.
The recipe couldn't be any simpler.
It's just a one to one to one ratio.
So, I'm gonna use two tablespoons
of coffee crystals and
two tablespoons of sugar.
And two tablespoons of hot water
which is interesting because
in my last recipe it said
that you had to use ice water
and now we're using hot water.
We'll see.
Two tablespoons.
So, the temperature of the
water may not matter as much.
I don't know, we'll see.
And now we're just gonna beat
this until it gets foamy.
All right, here we go.
So, as I mentioned in
the coffee whip video,
the reason why this works,
according to Harold McGee,
is about the particulate size.
So, the coffee crystals
are very, very, very fine
and what that does is
strengthens the point
between the bubbles and the foam
and allows them to have a lot of structure
and a lot of integrity
so that you can build a foam
that's really, really thick and strong
and has tiny, tiny bubbles.
So, I'm thinking the matcha
powder and the cocoa powder
will also for the same, same reasons
because they're so finely milled.
But we shall see.
Okay, let's continue.
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It's so cool.
You can see it already
beginning to lighten in color
and as you increase the
speed, it happens much faster.
So, I'm gonna scrape the sides down
to make sure we get all of that mixed in.
This stuff is absolutely magical.
It is so fun to make
because it's just magic before your eyes.
Look at that.
In just a matter of about
three to four minutes
we have this amazing,
whipped coffee stuff.
Just incredible.
So next let's make a cocoa powder version.
Now I'm gonna do the same thing.
Two tablespoons of sugar, two
tablespoons of cocoa powder.
Two tablespoons of hot water.
Oops.
Give that an initial stir to
kind of combine everything.
This one smells good.
Now I know just right off the bat
this one's not changing color at all.
Immediately when I did the coffee one
it started to lighten
up which indicates to me
that some air being
incorporated into the mixture
and it's starting to become foamy.
This seems to be incorporating
and getting a little bit of viscosity
and I think that has to do with
the dissolving of the sugar,
but I'm not seeing any
lightening of color.
But it could happen, let's see.
So, it's definitely thickening.
I think it might be working too.
It's not as thick.
It doesn't have that huge, fluffy texture,
but I'm gonna keep going.
This is definitely thickening,
but it's not as thick.
Not nearly as thick as the coffee version.
This has definitely thickened
to a batter-like consistency
while this is like a
marshmallow fluff consistency.
Look at that, it's so gorgeous.
It even has kind of a
sticky, tacky kind of pull
of marshmallow fluff.
This definitely thickened in volume,
but it doesn't have that
huge, fluffy lusciousness.
So, I've been beating this
for about seven minutes
which is about two minutes longer
than I whipped up the coffee version.
So, I'm gonna stop there
and let's try the matcha version.
Same proportions, two
tablespoons of sugar.
Two tablespoons of matcha powder
which is ground green tea
and this is a lot of matcha powder.
Two tablespoons of that.
Now I'm gonna add two
tablespoons of hot water.
And I'm gonna do an
initial kind of stir here.
So there seems to be just a
slight lightening in color.
Just in the initial minute of whipping,
but kind of similar to the cocoa powder.
It's kind of more of a syrup.
And it is lightening in color too,
but still remains kind of syrup-y
and more kind of like a batter.
Let's just do the whole seven minutes
and see what happens.
So now that we have all
our foams whipped up,
we're ready to assemble the drink.
So for this version I'm
just using regular milk.
Feel free to substitute
any kind of milk you like.
A couple ice cubes to each little glass.
And now we're gonna top it with our foam.
I'm gonna begin with the match.
Just float that right on top.
Oh, it's too heavy.
Look, it's sinking to the bottom.
Just gonna try, be very gentle.
So, that didn't work.
The foam is sinking to the bottom.
It's supposed to stay up on top.
Rats.
(laughs)
Oh well.
Let's try the chocolate
version, the cocoa powder.
I'll try to be gentle on top.
No, that one too is too heavy.
Oh, although this one is
staying a little bit, nope.
It's kind of sinking as well.
Rats.
That one's gonna taste
delicious though, I know it.
And finally the coffee version.
Oh, that's so gorgeous.
All right, here we go.
Oh, yes.
Look at that, that is so beautiful.
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Let's go ahead and taste the
original Dalgona coffee first.
I was very generous with my foam here,
but I'm gonna do my best
to kind of mix this in.
Oops.
So, I'm gonna put this
into this glass right here.
And the foam is still sticking to the top.
Still very, very beautiful.
I used two percent milk
because that's what I had.
We are currently social distancing.
We are not making any
trips to the grocery store.
So, I think this would probably be
a little bit more successful
with whole milk or any kind of milk
that has a little bit more body.
It could support the foam more.
I think perhaps that would of been better
for the other two experiments.
But having said that, the two percent milk
is still supporting the coffee foam.
So, let's first try it
with the foam right on top
without any kind of mixing.
All righty, here we go, cheers.
That is not a good way to drink this
because the foam is so thick
and you've got ice cubes in there
and once the milk passes through,
it kind of just gushes all over the place.
So, it definitely requires some mixing.
But now I see why Jung
ll-woo called this Dalgona.
It has such a beautiful
caramel flavor to it.
Now this is much sweeter
than the whipped topping
that I made before.
Oh my goodness, okay, here we go.
Let's mix this up like this.
All right, now let's give that a taste.
That's pretty good.
It's got a very strong, bitter
kind of almost burn coffee flavor to it.
But the level of sweetness is nice.
There's some sugar in
there that balances it out.
It tastes caramel-y
and toasted and cooked.
I think in terms of an experiment,
it was much more playful when
the foam was separate from
the milk and you had more of
that kind of caramel flavor.
But when everything's mixed together,
you don't have that
contrast between textures
and it just tastes like a
milky, strong caramel-y coffee.
Yeah.
Definitely more playful
as two separate parts,
but pretty tasty and a
really fun experiment
to do in the kitchen especially
when you've got a lot
of time on your hands.
Okay, let's try the cocoa version first.
Again I'm gonna try it separate first.
Tastes like milk.
(laughs)
I am also mildly lactose intolerant,
so, to combat that, I usually take
a lactose or a dairy enzyme
and that helps me digest milk.
Okay, so now I'm just gonna mix this up.
This looks like chocolate
syrup at the bottom
and this looks delicious.
All right, here we go.
Mm.
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Oh, yeah.
It's not as thick as a milkshake
but it has that same level
of ice cream-y sweetness.
And tons of chocolate flavor.
Oh yeah, that's delicious.
That's basically like a
whipped Hershey syrup mixed with milk.
Mhm, chocolate milk.
Oh yeah, my kids are gonna love that.
In terms of flavor I
actually like this better
than the coffee.
I think this is a little
bit more nostalgic for me.
While this is still delicious.
I think the whipping
experience, hands down,
is the most satisfying with the coffee.
In terms of taste, so
far, the chocolate one.
Yes.
Now let's taste the matcha.
Same thing, we're gonna just taste it
without any kind of mixing.
Mm, that one actually has
some matcha combined in it.
I can definitely taste it.
Mm, that's good too.
It doesn't taste nearly
as sweet as the other two.
Matcha is very, very bitter.
It has a very nice grassy flavor to it.
Definitely of all the three,
I like the chocolate version the most
in terms of flavor.
This one is the most delightful for sure
just as a fun experiment to
do while you're shuttered up.
In terms of flavor, this one's the winner.
Alrighty, so there you have it.
That's how you make Dalgona
coffee along with the cocoa
and the matcha variants as well.
Those were definitely not as successful
in terms of getting that beautiful foam,
but in terms of flavor,
they're quite good.
If you want to try to
experiment with those as well,
definitely try that.
The chocolate one is really tasty,
but if you happen to have some
of this crystal-y coffee powder,
I highly recommend just trying
this as a fun experiment
because the transformation
is really, really wonderful.
All righty my lovelies,
thanks so much for tuning in.
I hope you are well, know
that I'm thinking of you.
Follow me on social media,
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I have been feeling a need to connect
with all of you through
all this social distancing.
This is a really difficult
time for all of us,
but we're gonna be okay.
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