- Today, I'm gonna try that trend
that everyone's making on TikTok,
called Dalgona coffee.
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Hey guys, I'm Candice, the "Edgy Veg",
and welcome back to another episode of,
I guess what we're calling
quarantine kitchen?
So, if you haven't seen this,
I guess you're not on TikTok.
(laughs)
All right so, Dalgona is a Korean biscuit,
it's like a candy biscuit, it's
like a multi-toffee almost?
So Dalgona coffee is
mixing an instant coffee
with some sort of sugar and water,
and it is served over
top of, almost served
like latte style, so you can
have it either hot or cold,
with some ice, but it is milk and then
like this coffee foam on top.
And the reason why it's
called Dalgona coffee
is because it tastes
very similar to Dalgona,
which is this Korean treat.
But, I already have my
creative juices flowing,
I really want to try originally,
just like the way it's
meant to be consumed,
but then I also want to try making
a cardamom version of it.
It's already sweet, so
the cardamom will give it
like some warmth, and some spice as well.
Not spice, like this is spicy,
think of like pumpkin pie, how it has that
warm spice flavor, it's kind of like that.
All right to make our Dalgona coffee,
you need instant coffee.
The only instant coffee I had
is a decaf, which is fine,
because I've already had a coffee today,
but you can use both
caffeinated and decaf,
doesn't really matter.
I'm going to whip that
with this cane sugar,
you can use white sugar, any
sugar that you have at home
pretty much is fine, I believe.
Two tablespoons of each, and
then two tablespoons of water.
We're gonna whip that
together with a hand mixer,
you can do it with a whisk,
but it's gonna take you like 20 minutes.
You wanna whip that together until you get
very thick peaks, and it's very foamy.
Okay so you're gonna
take your instant coffee
and put it into, just like
a bowl or I have this,
which is great for my hand blender.
And you're gonna mix that with your sugar,
and then just mix it with two tablespoons
of boiling hot water.
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And then using whatever
you want to use to mix it,
you can use like a hand mixer for baking,
I have this so I'm just gonna use this.
(mixer whirring)
Okay so what you're going to end up with
is this like foamy consistency,
it kind of has some stiff peaks,
I ended up doubling the recipe
because I wanna try it
out two different ways.
It definitely has that
like malted toffee flavor.
Once you have that, you
can make your latte!
So it's really up to you,
whether you want to make
a cold latte or a warm latte.
If you want cold we're
going to add some ice,
I think I want cold today
so you're going to add ice
to a cup, fill it up with some soy milk,
and then top it off with
the Dalgona coffee portion.
But if you wanted to make it
warm you can do the same thing,
just warm up the milk
first and don't add ice.
All right, so I have my cup of ice here,
I'm going to add some
milk, I'm going to add
my dollops of coffee,
and you can top this
with like chocolate syrup
if you want or cinnamon.
The cinnamon will be nice
with that like malted flavor.
There you go!
All right so let's give this a try.
So before you serve, give it a good mix.
I don't think you have to mix it,
but I've seen everybody online mixing it,
and it doesn't really make sense to me
to just like have milk
and then the coffee after.
So I used soy milk, I just
like the flavor of soy milk,
it also has kind of like
an earthy flavor to it,
and it's higher in
protein, so I like that,
it's a lot creamier than in coffee.
That's really good, you wanna try it?
- [Man] Mhm.
Oh yeah, mm.
- [Candice] Good right?
(hums)
Okay you can have that one.
- Yeah.
- [Candice] Because I'm
going to make another one
but with cardamom.
- I love it.
- All right cardamom coffee
is one of my favorite things,
the first time I was
introduced to cardamom coffee
it was from Turkish coffee, and I love it,
and I add it to my coffee
on a regular basis.
So, I want to try and
make it with cardamom.
So cardamom comes in these
pods, I actually got these
in Israel when I was there,
at a souk, or a market.
Cardamom is quite strong.
You wanna crack open one of these guys
and you only need a couple of
the little seeds in the pod.
You'll see there's quite a
bit of seeds in that pod,
so I would use like four.
One, two, three, and I
have on in my hand, four.
So I'm just using my coffee grinder
and if you're making
this with normal coffee,
like if you're just making normal coffee,
and you want cardamom
coffee you can grind these
right with the beans, which
I do on a regular basis,
but because I just want the cardamom,
I'm just gonna grind it up in here.
(grinder whirring)
- [Man] They're impatient
for their coffee.
If you use too much, it'll
make what ever you're flavoring
it with, taste like soap.
So I'm just going to use like a sprinkle.
And especially if you're
getting, not fresh cardamom,
but like dried cardamom in the pods,
it's going to be way more potent
than if you were to get ground cardamom.
- [Man] Where can people get
ground cardamom, usually?
Just from like a regular grocery store?
- Yeah!
- [Man] Spices aisle?
- Like a spice aisle--
- [Man] Like the whole seeds?
Or like the whole--
- Yeah, I've seen the whole seeds
sold in grocery stores,
it is quite expensive.
If you have like a middle eastern grocer
that you like to use, I would go there.
And we're going to do
the same thing again.
(mixer whirring)
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- [Man] Mix it good.
(humming song)
- [Candice] How's yours?
- [Man] I added a little
bit of coffee into mine,
because I wanted a bit of--
Well afterwards, I drank--
I, enjoyed it's creation.
But then I needed a kick.
- Mm, with the cardamom it's really nice.
For a second there, just
with the foam I was like,
might have added too much
cardamom, but once you mix it
with the milk and
everything, it's perfect.
It's so good, I love cardamom coffee.
And honestly guys, if you want to try
like an orange flavored one,
like I've seen orange coffee,
and it looks so good,
I'm gonna try that next.
All you have to do is
add orange zest to it.
Kind of experiment with
the different flavors,
experiment with it hot, cold.
So there you have it, a vegan
version of Dalgona coffee,
the TikTok viral sensation.
Let me know if there's other recipes
that you guys are seeing
blowing up on TikTok
that you want me to
try, you can leave them
in the comments section down
below and I'll give them a try!
All right guys, if you're new here
I'm Candice the "Edgy Veg",
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Bye!
- [Man] Did you know
you have the mannerisms
of the sister from Schitt's Creek?
- I don't have Alexis mannerisms!
- You do this, sometimes you're like,
if you like orange.
