Tapioca Pearls (Boba) Recipe with Brown Sugar or Fruit

Learn how to make tapioca pearls or boba balls from scratch using tapioca starch, brown sugar and water. As we're not using artificial food colouring, the colours are only from dark brown sugar or natural food dyes like fruit.

The most common black boba pearls are made with a sweetener and black food colouring inside. Without the colouring, you'll end up with light brown golden boba. If you really want the colouring, you can add a few drops of black food colouring to our recipe.