- 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.
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- [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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- [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.