Hi, a huge Halloween welcome to Steve's kitchen. We are continuing the five most
disgusting halloween treats. Now when you were a kid did you ever used to collect
frog spawn in a jam jar and take it home with you, I know I did. Did you ever think
to yourself if I take a little bit of Mountain Dew soda and pop it in with a
frog spawn what would it be like? No I didn't either but in a Willy Wonka World
of fun and games wouldn't it be great if these little gummy frogs could make
gummy frog spawn. You don't need a wizard's hat or a Hogwarts degree to
work out how to make edible frog spawn. Do you remember tapioca pearls from when
you're a kid, actually these are still really popular today for making bubble
tea. They're just little tapioca pearls, in bubble tea they can be a little bit
bigger but they are fantastic for making something that we used to call frogs
spawn when we were a kid and it is delicious. So come on let's get and make
our frog spawn.
Take half a cup of tapioca balls, pop them into a pan, in with the tapioca
pearls I'm adding a drop or two of black food coloring gel because I want to
color these tapioca balls a little bit. Next we want to take two and a half cups
of water and a quarter of a cup of just granulated sugar. Now we're going to
gently heat these tapioca balls so they expand and as they do so they'll
suck in the color, the black color and a little bit of the sweetness from the
sugar. Now after a few minutes you're going to end up with this real
gelatinous mixture, which is perfect, means the tapioca has started to absorb
some of the color. It's almost like a witch's cauldron bubbling away. Now I
need to add in more water, another two and a half cups should just about do it
but it really doesn't matter you can add even more than that. I'm just going to
bring this up to the heat a second time. Now when that comes back up to heat
you're going to see that the little tapioca balls still have a little bit of
white in the center but that's fine, we're going to take this off the heat
now and leave it aside for five or ten minutes to absorb some more liquid. Now
I've let our frog spawn cool down a little bit. I'm going to pour it through
a sieve, I want to get rid of all the liquid. Now I've just rinsed the tapioca
through some cold water until they've all separated out like that and now what
I'm going to do is pop them back into my bowl. Now I like these little white dots
in the center it makes them look a little bit like frog spawn. What we're
going to do next is take a glass or a jam jar and we're going to drop a couple
of spoonfuls of our frog spawn into the bottom of the glass. Now for obvious
reasons we're using Mountain Dew I'm just going to crack the seal on this one
and watch what happens as we pour this in with our frog spawn, get those lovely
bubbles, get that wonderful Green Mountain Dew and the frog spawn whizzes
around and it settles on the top just like real frog spawn. So there you have
it Mountain Dew Halloween spew all that lovely frog spawn in there and I can
tell you what Michele I have had a few of these and they taste
pretty good. I've got a straw here in we go Oh with a little sweet tapioca balls
this is the way to have any soda it is really really good.
Lots of fun and pretty disgusting but not as disgusting as what's to come yet
on Steve's kitchen. I'm so sorry there is more to come so keep a look out
for the rest of the five most disgusting Halloween treats. I will see you next
time, take care and trust me this is good.