What are cranberries?

Cranberries (Vaccinium macrocarpon) are small red berries with a very tart flavour. Dry cranberries are readily available in supermarkets around the world, while the fresh ones are usually available only in late autumn. Fresh cranberries will last in the fridge for a month or so, making them a perfect ingredient for early winter drinks. Cranberry juices and cranberry sauces are widely available too, but if you have a chance to enjoy them fresh, you definitely won’t regret it.

Cranberries are a common ingredient in tea blends too, especially those with a zesty and tart flavour. They go well with green and black tea, and other zesty and fruity ingredients.

Additional ingredients you can try adding to homemade cranberry tea:

• Fresh apples
• Hibiscus
• Orange

Cranberry benefits

Cranberries make for a delicious homemade drink, and they may provide additional benefits too. In fact, because of their numerous potential benefits, they are considered superfood. Studies showed cranberries may help with urinary tract infections and that’s probably one of their most important benefits. But, it’s not the only one. They may also help protect against heart diseases (1) by lowering cholesterol and reducing inflammation and may help boost the immune system (2). With the amazing flavour and significant benefits, cranberry tea will easily become your favourite drink.

How to make cranberry tea from fresh cranberries?

There is a thin line between a tea and a juice, especially when you are using fresh ingredients. Juices are usually simply juiced from fresh fruits. Then, water may or may not be added to dilute them, depending on your preferences. Unlike with tea, there’s no boiling or steeping. On the other hand, tea or an herbal infusion always includes steeping either real tea leaves (tea) or other fresh or dried ingredients (infusion) in water. However, some fruit such as cranberries are better simmered than steeped.

You can make cranberry tea from both fresh and dried cranberries, but with different results. Simply steeping them won’t be enough. Dried cranberries are usually sweetened and will release much less flavour than fresh fruits. Thankfully, making cranberry tea from fresh cranberries is super simple, as you will only need to wash and simmer them.

Spiced cranberry tea recipe ingredients

Fresh cranberries – cranberries are usually available in late autumn, but they can keep in the fridge for a month or even longer. However, you can make a delicious cranberry tea using frozen cranberries too. Once they are in season, wash and freeze them (whole) and thaw before using.

Spices – use whole, crushed spices rather than spice powders. They will give a more complex flavour and a clear liquor. Although spices do not really expire, they will lose their flavour over time, so always check before using them in recipes.

Sugar – any type of sugar will go well with this recipe. For a more neutral flavour, choose white granulated sugar or brown sugar for a nuttier warmer notes. Honey will work well too. If you want to avoid sugars, try it with sugar alternatives.

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Spiced Cranberry Tea

Delicious,zesty, sweet, juicy spiced cranberry tea

Course Drinks

Keyword cranberries, fruit tea, Spiced Tea

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 30 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• saucepan
• Kitchen strainer
• Pestle and mortar

Ingredients

• 50 grams fresh cranberries whole and unpeeled, washed
• 400 ml water
• 1/3 small cinnamon stick
• 1 whole star anis
• 2 whole cloves
• 1 teaspoon lemon juice
• 1-2 teaspoons sugar

Instructions

• Gently crush the spices using pestle and mortar.
• Add spices and water into a small saucepan and bring it to a boil.
• Add cranberries and reduce the heat. Let it simmer for 30 minutes, covered.
• Strain into a cup, add sweetener and enjoy.

Sources:

(1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3823508/

(2) https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-researcher-discusses-health-benefits-cranberries

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How to make Mint Matcha Latte

To make this latte, you will need Japanese matcha tea powder, fresh mint, water, milk and, optionally, a sweetener.

Mint – use fresh mint if possible. Dry mint is much stronger, with a very different flavour profile than fresh mint. You only want to add hints of mint. Fresh mint won’t change the colour of the water, so you will end up with a beautiful, naturally flavoured green latte.

Matcha powder – although you can use any matcha powder, teas with a fresher grassy flavour profile and bright green colour will give the best results. Always use only matcha powder that has a lot of flavour and fresh scent.

Milk – whole milk is usually a better choice for making lattes than semi-skimmed or skimmed milk. You can replace regular milk with a dairy free milk alternative too. Choose milk with neutral flavour, preferably a barista style, as they tend to froth better. Also, some milk alternatives may already be very sweet. Check the flavour before adding additional sweeteners.

Sweetener – choose neutral sweeteners such as white sugar or very light floral honey. Regular milk already has enough sweetness, so unless you prefer really sweet drinks, you can avoid this step.

What type of mint should I use?

There are many types of mint, with peppermint and spearmint being the most common ones. You can choose either, but keep in mind that they have a different flavour profile. Peppermint has a stronger, sharper flavour than spearmint, which is sweeter and lighter. If possible, use fresh mint because it will give a much fresher, brighter and lighter flavour than dried mint. You don’t need to use too much as you only want to scent your latte lightly and not overpower it with minty flavour.

If you don’t have any fresh mint, flavour drops may work well too, better than dry mint. However, opt for those that don’t contain any colourings and add only a drop or two. Intensely green coloured mint flavour drops blended with matcha powder will give a very artificial colour.

When to froth the milk?

To make a proper latte, it’s always best to steam and froth the milk before adding it to tea. Since matcha is very green and naturally frothy, it will be more difficult to get a clean line between tea and the froth. You can froth it once you blend the tea and hot milk and get a green drink with green froth instead.  

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Mint Matcha Latte Recipe

Fresh, vibrant and green matcha latte

Course Drinks

Keyword Matcha, Mint

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• electric hand frother
• cup

Ingredients

• 80 ml of water
• 150 ml of whole milk
• 2 smaller fresh mint sprigs
• ½ teaspoon of matcha powder

Instructions

• Bring fresh water to a boil.
• Wash fresh mint leaves and steep them in 80 ml of freshly boiled water for 5 minutes.
• Sift ½ teaspoon of matcha powder into a cup. Add 2 teaspoons of water and make a thick paste with no lumps.
• Remove mint leaves and pour the mint tea into a cup with matcha paste.
• Froth it using a whisk or an electric frother. If you are using a sweetener, add it now and stir.  
• Heat the milk, but don’t let it boil.
• Pour the milk into the cup with matcha tea and froth it using an electric hand frother.

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How to make granola?

What’s great about homemade granola is that you can make it in literally 2-3 minutes + drying time. You can make it as healthy or as indulgent as you want and choose from dozens of ingredients. Homemade granola won’t cost you a lot, and it will taste delicious.

Ingredients for making Christmas granola

To make this recipe, gather all the ingredients first.

Hazelnuts – First, dry roast hazelnuts in the oven for about 40 minutes at 120 degrees. While this step is not necessary, it will add more flavour to hazelnuts and you will be able to peel off the skin. The easiest way to crush them is to put them into a clean zip-lock bag or wrap them into a clean kitchen towel and use a kitchen mallet.

Oats – use either thick rolled or thin rolled oats, whichever you prefer the most. You can use both of them as well and even add some rye flakes too.

Chocolate – Chocolate will melt in the oven. If you don’t have chocolate drops, you can make white chocolate shreds from regular white chocolate.

Chai Syrup – Because of the warming spices, homemade chai syrup is a great binder for this granola. Learn how to make Chai Tea Syrup here.

Place all ingredients in a bowl except sprinkles and marshmallows. Adding marshmallows is an optional step. If you don’t like the flavour of marshmallow fluff, keep it out. If you use them, they are going to add additional sweetness, so adding a pinch of salt is a good idea to balance out the flavour.  

What’s the best temperature for baking granola?

While you may be tempted to speed up the process by increasing the oven temperature, don’t do it. Your granola may burn or bake unevenly. Keep the temperature at not over 120-130 degrees Celsius and check every 10 minutes. Half-way through, use a fork and gently crush and turn it so it bakes evenly.

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Easy Christmas Granola

Homemade granola with chai tea syrup

Course Breakfast

Keyword Black Tea, Chai, Tea Syrup

Prep Time 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time 40 minutes minutes

Equipment

• Baking tray
• Baking paper
• bowl
• Spoon

Ingredients

• 100 grams of oats
• 20-40 grams of white chocolate drops
• 40 grams of rice pops
• 40 grams of lightly roasted hazelnuts, crushed
• 10-12 spoons of Chai tea syrup
• Christmas sprinkles
• Marshmallows (optional)

Instructions

• Line a baking tray with baking paper.
• Put oats, rice pops, white chocolate drops and crushed hazelnuts into a bowl.
• Add tea syrup and mix. Consistency will depend on your tea syrup, but the syrup shouldn’t be dripping from the spoon once you mixed it. If you are using a thin syrup, you may want to use less.  
• Add marshmallows and mix (optional). Use either small marshmallows or cut them into smaller chunks so they melt evenly.
• Add sprinkles and gently mix.
• Spread granola on baking paper in a thin layer. It doesn’t need to be perfect, but spread it out evenly.
• Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes at 120-130 degrees. It’s done when it’s crispy and light golden.
• Take it out from the oven, let it cool down and store in an airtight container.

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What is White Christmas tea?

White Christmas comes from Rosie Lea Tea, a UK tea shop with many unique blends, including a whole range of teas inspired by literature and desserts. This Christmas tea is unique too. White tea holiday blends are far less common than black tea and fruit tea blends. What’s makes white tea especially great for winter blends is that it can offer an amazing opportunity to bring snowy lightness into a cup.

This festive tea blend really smells like white Christmas. Because of cinnamon chips, orange peel and cloves, at first, this tea may look like a blend of common festive ingredients. But then, there are pine needles and sugar stars, and together with other ingredients, they create a festive blend that gives a feeling of strolling through a pine wood forest covered in snow.

Pine needles are still not a common ingredient in tea blends. They can be used together with other ingredients or on its own as an herbal tea.

Clove may be the most prominent scent, but this is not just a typical spiced tea with cloves. Together with pine needles and white tea, it creates a scent that welcoming, warming and reminding of that feeling you get when you bring a Christmas tree into your home.

How to brew this tea?

White Christmas is a white tea blend, keep the water temperature below 80 degrees Celsius. Step 1-2 teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water at 80-85 degrees Celsius for 3 minutes.

It’s a very delicate, but festive blend with no bitterness and a balanced light flavour. None of the ingredients are overpowering, and together they create a gentle warming hug in a cup with very light sweet notes, rather than a heavily spiced tea.

Orange peel is a wonderful ingredient for blends that require lower water temperatures, as it will give delicate notes without overpowering the blend.

This tea is very easy to drink and is best served with no condiments. You can re-steep the same tea leaves, without losing light and festive flavour.

This tea would be great for tea drinkers that love the scent of Christmas trees, spiced teas and more delicate gentler blends.

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1. Mulled Wine

When talking about Christmas drinks, it’s impossible not to start with mulled wine. Mulled wine is for sure, the ultimate holiday drink, so it doesn’t surprise it’s one of the most popular festive tea flavours. Teas inspired by mulled wine can be caffeinated and caffeine free, and they are an amazing alternative if you want to enjoy this warming flavour all day long. Mulled Wine from Twist Teas contains all the spices and fruits to make a proper mulled wine any time you want.

Price: from 4.00 GBP

Caffeine: No

Type: fruit tea blend

Where to buy: Get Mulled Wine tea from Twist Teas website.

2. Mulled Cider

If wine is not really your thing, mulled cider can be a great alternative. This spiced drink is as warming and aromatic as mulled wine, but with crispier and fresher apple notes. Mulled Cider tea from Bird and Blend is an apple-based tea with warming spices and natural zestiness, no caffeine or alcohol, and 100% warming flavour.

Price: from 6.70 GBP

Caffeine: No

Type: fruit tea blend

Where to buy: Get Mulled Cider from Bird and Blend website.

3. Eggnog

Smooth and custardy eggnog is a must for the holiday season. It’s the creamiest of all holiday drinks and incredibly delicious. Eggnog is usually only lightly spiced with nutmeg and can be served with or without alcohol. T2’s Eggnog tea is blended with black tea, hazelnut brittle, nutmeg, sweet blackberry leaves and eggnog flavourings for perfectly creamy eggnog experience in a teacup.

Price: 16 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Eggnog tea from T2 website.

4. Hot Toddy

The best thing on cold winter nights is to snuggle under the blanket. Enjoying a cup of warm drink at the same time makes it even better. This traditional drink is made with whiskey, honey, water, lemon and spices and is usually enjoyed throughout the winter. Hot Toddy tea blend is an alcohol-free tea alternative from Tugboat, made with black tea, and all the spices and flavouring to give the same warming feeling.

Price: from 2.20 GBP

Caffeine: yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Hot Toddy tea from Tugboat website.

5. Fruit Punch

Seeing a big bowl of fruit punch means it’s time to party. Fruit punch is made with different fruit juices and often a sparkling wine or carbonated non-alcoholic drink, and garnished with fresh fruits. Depending on the recipe, punch may contain a mix of different alcoholic drinks too, but it can be alcohol free as well. A Fruit Punch tea blend from It’s Tea is a festive fruit blend, made with oranges and pineapples, cinnamon rods and mistletoe.

Price: from 1.55 GBP

Caffeine: no

Type: fruit tea blend

Where to buy: Get Fruit Punch tea from It’s Tea website.

6. Glogg

If you love mulled drinks, you will love glogg too. Glogg is a Swedish version of mulled wine, but it can be made with other spirits too. It’s warming and rich and often served with dried fruits. Glogg inspired tea from Kusmi Tea’s an herbal, caffeine and alcohol-free aromatic blend of blackcurrants and grapes, spices, liquorice and natural zestiness from hibiscus, lemon peel and orange essential oil.  

Price: 19.90 EUR

Caffeine: no

Type: fruit tea blend

Where to buy: Get Glogg tea from Kusmi Tea website.

7. Buttered Rum

What could be more indulgent than a hot drink made with butter and spices? Buttered rum is a rich and warming winter drink made with rum, butter, spices, and sugar. Buttered Rum tea from Clearview Tea Company contains no alcohol or calories, only a comforting and rich buttered rum flavour.

Price: 14.00 CAD

Caffeine: yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Buttered Rum tea from Clearview Tea Company website.

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What is Candy Cane Popcorn Tea?

Candy Cane Popcorn tea is a holiday blend from Yawn. It contains a deeper black tea base, popped rice, apple pieces, white chamomile and safflower petals and natural flavours. Toasted and popped rice is commonly blended with Japanese green teas such as sencha, bancha or sometimes even gyokuro, to create a delicious tea with a toasty and nutty flavour called genmaicha or popcorn tea. Nowadays, both toasted rice and popped rice are used for modern style tea blends too.

While candy canes may traditionally contain a peppermint flavour, in this blend they represent sweetness and cheerfulness. Cany Cane Popcorn does not contain mint, but festive sweet flavour instead. It smells absolutely delicious – toasty, nutty, with deep caramel notes incorporated into a brisk black tea base. All the ingredients make it look very pretty too.

How to brew this tea?

To make a cup of Candy Cane Popcorn tea, use 1- 1 ½ teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of freshly boiled water and steep for 2-3 minutes.

When brewing black tea, it’s better to use more tea leaves and keep the steeping time at 2-3 minutes, rather than over-steeping it. Over-steeping may cause bitterness.

This tea steeps into a light and fragrant cuppa with light sweetness. Gentle toasty and caramel notes are layered on a stronger, brisk black tea, giving a light mouth-drying feeling followed by an intense and long, sweet nutty aftertaste. You can enjoy this tea with or without condiments. The best sweetener? Brown sugar, honey, or even a caramel sauce.

Who would like this tea? Candy Cane Popcorn tea is one of those blends you want to have when you need something to cheer you up. Flavour profile is great for combining with different condiments, including sweeteners and milk. It’s a wonderful choice if you enjoy sweeter but brisk black teas with caramel and toasty notes. Because it’s only lightly flavoured, it would also be great for those who prefer pure black teas but want something cheerful to enjoy during a holiday season.

Tea Recap

Water or Milk? Water or milk

Day or night? Day

Caffeine? Yes

Hot or Iced? Hot

Sweetened or Pure? Pure or sweetened.

What’s the price? from 5.95 GBP

Where to buy? Get Candy Cane Popcorn from Yawn website or Yawn Etsy shop.

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What is Mulled Wine tea?

Mulled wine is a hot drink made with red wine, oranges, spices and sugar or honey. There’s no doubt mulled wine is delicious and just perfect for cold winter nights, but if you want an alcohol-free alternative, although it may sound unlikely, mulled wine teas may actually offer the same experience too.

Mulled Wine tea from Whittard is a fruit tea blend with some ingredients that are typically not common in a mulled wine tea blend – apples, hibiscus, sweet blackberry leaves and roasted chicory root. All of them are naturally caffeine free. Because of its earthy and slightly bitter flavour, roasted chicory root is probably the most known as a caffeine-free coffee alternative. This blend doesn’t contain any artificial sweeteners or sugar. Instead, a light sweeteness comes from sweet blackberry leaves. Dry tea smells very rich and fruity, with lots of zestiness, sweetness and deeper earthy notes.

How to brew this tea?

To make the best cup, use 2 rather than 1 teaspoon of tea per cup of water. Steep for 5 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius. This blend contains smaller, uniformed particles to offer a really rich infusion. If you are looking for a complete mulled wine experience, you can simmer it on the stove instead.

What’s truly amazing about this Mulled Wine tea blend is that it actually feels like a rich but gentle, real mulled wine. It has so much depth and richness, some tartness, fruitiness, sweetness and even a slight tannic note, with light clove notes. Each and every ingredient in this blend plays an important role to offer a flavour that’s as close as it gets to a real mulled wine. There are light tannic notes and depth from roasted chicory root, light sweetness from sweet blackberry leaves, tartness and zestiness from hibiscus and citric acid, and deep fruity apple base.

This is not an apple tea, and this is not a roasted chicory tea. This is a real holiday blend that you can enjoy completely guilt-free. If you prefer sweeter mulled wine, you can add a teaspoon of honey or sugar.

This blend is great for tea drinkers that love the flavour of mulled wine, zesty fruit blends and lightly spiced teas. If you love cooking with tea or want to make a holiday tea syrup, this blend would be an amazing choice too.

Need more inspiration? Find out how to make tea caviar with Mulled Wine tea.

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1. Christmas Stollen

Stollen, a traditional German Christmas cake, is made with dried fruits and citruses, spices and marzipan. It’s technically a bread, made with yeast and shaped in a loaf, but with rich and sweet cake ingredients. Looking for a liquified sweet and fruity Stollen cake? Christmas Stollen black tea contains absolutely all ingredients a Stollen should have – including marzipan pieces, sultanas, orange, almonds and even small cinnamon sticks.

Price: from 1.55 GBP

Caffeine: yes

Type: black tea blend

 Where to buy: Get Christmas Stollen tea from It’s Tea website.

2. Panettone

Italy gave the world many truly amazing food and drinks, including a delicious Christmas cake – Panettone. Panettone is a bread cake with dried fruits and fluffy texture that can be eaten as a dessert, but tastes just as great for breakfast, too. Panettone Cake tea is blended with black tea, orange and lemon citrus peel, raisins, vanilla and calendula petals and can be enjoyed with or without milk.   

Price: from 7.00 CAD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Panettone Cake tea from Dessert by Deb website. (Seasonal tea)

3. Pepperkake Traditional Cookies

Inspired by simple yet delicious Norwegian ginger biscuits, Santa’s Baby or Pepperkake rooibos tea contains all the ingredients to warm and cheer you up. Pepperkake or pepper cookies are traditional Christmas desserts from Norway with pepper, ginger, clover and cinnamon. This blend doesn’t contain caffeine, which makes it perfect for late night sipping covered up in a blanket.

Price: from 3.19 GBP

Caffeine: no

Type: rooibos tea blend

 Where to buy: Get Pepperkake Rooibos Tea from Tea and the Gang website.

4. Christmas Pud

Christmas without a Christmas Pudding? It’s never going to happen. This traditional British Christmas dessert is as unique as it gets – it’s made with dried fruits, alcohol, spices and butter (or suet), steamed for hours, matured, steamed again and flamed up before serving. You don’t need to do any of that with Christmas Pud tea. Simply boil the water, steep and enjoy. This fruity and spicy tea is blended with green tea, cinnamon and fruits.

Price: from 4.00 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to get: Get Christmas Pud from Twist Teas website.

5. Figgy Pudding

You don’t need to be English to know about Figgy Pudding. “We Wish you a Merry Christmas” Christmas Carol gave a word-wide recognition to this traditional Christmas dessert. While Figgy pudding is simply just another name for Christmas pudding, Figgy Pudding black tea blend from Capital Teas contains actual fig pieces too, and sour and acerola cherries.  

Price: from 14.95 USD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

 Where to buy: Get Figgy Pudding from Capital Teas website.

6. Mince Pie

Figgy and Christmas puddings may be world-known traditional Christmas desserts, but it’s mince pies that are the first visible, edible sign of Christmas. These sweet small cakes with a buttery crust are filled with mincemeat, which is a mixture of apples, citruses, raisins a similar fruits and spices. Mince Pie Christmas cake tea contains Ceylon black tea, spices and citruses and fig oil to offer the same feeling, but guilt-free.  

Price: from 2.50 GBP

Caffeine: yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Mince Pie from Suki Tea website.

7. Salted Caramel Lebkuchen

Ginger is one of the most popular winter spices, and certainly one of the most popular Christmas cookie spices in the world. Lebkuchen is a Germany type of spiced cookie with honey and a special mixture of Lebkuchen spices. Add some salted caramel and here it is – Salted Caramel Lebkuchen, a black tea blend inspired by a German favourite holiday cookie.

Price: from 6.35 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Salted Caramel Lebkuchen from Bird & Blend website.

8. Yule Log

Without signature decorations, Yule Log or Bûche de Noël may look like a random chocolate roulade, but this French Christmas cake has a long tradition. Yule Log is a chocolate sponge cake with cream cheese filling and chocolate frosting. It can be made with different ingredients too – for example raspberries, that taste delicious with a cream cheese filling. This Yule Log Christmas cake tea is blended with Ceylon black tea, freeze-dried raspberries and cocoa husks and nibs to offer a chocolaty deep and sweet liquid treat.

Price: from 4.75 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Yule Log from Biscuit & Brew Tea House website.

9. Fruit Cake

Somewhere between Christmas Stollen and Panettone lies the Fruit Cake, one more festive treat. Fruit cake is a rich cake made with dried fruits too, but unlike Stollen, it comes in different shapes, doesn’t need to be coated with sugar, and it’s richer than Panettone. This Fruit Cake Christmas tea blend is as rich as a real cake. It’s blended with black and oolong tea, spices, citruses and other fruits, vanilla, and even carrots, sea salt, rose petals and maple.

Price: from 4.00 USD

Caffeine: yes

Type: black and oolong tea blend

Where to buy: Get Fruit Cake tea from Subrosa Tea website.

10. Panforte

Panforte is another traditional Italian Christmas cake, made with dried fruits, nuts, spices and honey. This rich and festive cake comes from Siena. It may be less famous than Panettone, but it’s as festive and deliciously chewy. Panforte di Siena Christmas tea blend is made with white and green tea, and lots of candied fruits and nuts.

Price: from 2.95 EUR

Caffeine: yes

Type: white and green tea blend

Where to buy: Get Panforte di Siena from Schnorr website.

11. Turron

Spain is famous for its delicious nougat sweets. Turron is a type of Spanish Christmas brittle that’s actually available all-year round. This Christmas treat is usually made with nuts, egg whites, sugar and honey. Turron may contain other ingredients too, including chocolate and spices. This Sweet Turron fruity tea blend comes from a Spanish Tea Shop, it’s made with cinnamon and almonds and it’s caffeine-free.

Price: from 9.95 EUR

Caffeine: no

Type: fruity tea blend

Where to buy: Get Sweet Turron from Tea Shop website.

12. Gingerbread Man

Cheerful and fun gingerbread men are an all-time classic. These spicy cookies originate from England and are commonly decorated with colourful icing. A Christmas teatime too, wouldn’t be complete without a gingerbread man tea. This blend from The Tea Crew contains both black and green tea, all the spices, oranges, cocoa and bourbon vanilla.

Price: from 2.99 GBP

Caffeine: yes

Type: black and green tea blend

Where to buy: Get Gingerbread Man tea from The Tea Crew website.

13. Speculoos

This gently spiced aromatic crunchy cookies are traditional holiday treats in the Netherlands and Belgium. They are crunchier and gentler than gingerbread cookies, but highly aromatic and sweet. Speculoos tea blend contains Ceylon black tea, almonds and speculoos spices, to offer the same holiday flavour, only liquified.

Price: from 5.30 EUR

Caffeine: yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Speculoos tea from Mi Gusto website.

14. Marzipan Cookies

Marzipan is a traditional European festive ingredient and an ingredient in many traditional Christmas desserts. But marzipan cookies take the almond flavour a step further. Not only do they contain marzipan, but may contain many other different ingredients too, including chocolate, spices and fruits. Marzipan Cookies dessert tea from Amoda Tea is blended with red rooibos, papaya, pear, spices, and almonds, to offer a festive cookie flavour that goes well with milk too.

Price: 22.00 CAD

Caffeine: no

Type: red rooibos tea blend

Where to buy: Get Marzipan Cookies from Amoda Tea.

15. Frosted Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake is an any-season classic, but warming spices and delicious cream cheese frosting make this cake a perfect festive Christmas treat too. Sprinkled with sugared snowmen and carrot candy sprinkles, Frosted Carrot Cake tea blend from Sisters Tea Company is a truly festive holiday tea without a doubt. It’s a truly unique blend of sweet herbal honey bush tea, green rooibos, white chocolate bits, raisins, carrots and cinnamon.  

Price: from 3.00 USD

Caffeine: no

Type: green rooibos and honey bush tea

Where to buy: Get Frosted Carrot Cake from Sisters Tea Company website.

16. Sugar Plum

Sugar Plum treats are made with dried fruits, spices such as cinnamon, and sugar. This treat may sound simple, but it’s both uniquely festive and delicious. Sugar Plum Fairy tea blend was inspired not only by these sweet treats, but by a Nutcracker ballet too, and blended in collaboration with the Scottish Ballet.

Price: from 3.75 GBP

Caffeine: yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Get Sugar Plum Fairy from Eteaket website.

17. Chocolate Fudge Cake

When talking about traditional Christmas desserts, it’s impossible not to mention fudge. Every year Christmas markets tempt with both classic and unusual fudge flavours. While fudge is hard to resist even in its simplest form when made of sugar, butter and milk, a Chocolate Fudge Cake is a true festive treat. A tea blend inspired by this cake is rich too, and blended with Ceylon black tea, cocoa nibs and cocoa shells, fenugreek and liquorice.

Price: from 3.00 GBP

Caffeine: yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Chocolate Fudge Cake from Rosie Lea Tea website.

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1. Christmas Greetings

When you think about Christmas, what’s the first thing that comes into your mind? Is it the Christmas sweets? Gingerbread men? Or maybe it’s spiced drinks? Christmas Greetings tea has it all. It’s made with sweet and earthy red rooibos, caramel and brittle pieces, sugar snowflakes, sugar gingerbread men and pink peppercorn, to greet you with the unmistakable Christmas flavours with every sip.

Price: 6.95 GBP

Type: herbal blend

Caffeine: No

Where to buy: Get Christmas Greetings from The Tea House website.

2. Nutcracker Christmas tea

Can you imagine Christmas without a nutcracker and a nutcracker without marzipan? This sweet rooibos blends is made with red rooibos tea, almond pieces, candied papaya and silver sugar sprinkles and sugar stars. It’s a pretty and festive marzipan flavoured blend made to set the Christmas mood from the first sip.  

Price: from 4.75 GBP

Type: herbal blend

Caffeine: No

Where to buy: Get Nutcracker from Tips & Leaves website.

3. Christmas Cuppa

For every tea lover, a Christmas cuppa may mean different flavours, but there’s one flavour that undeniably says it’s Christmas – it’s orange. Christmas Cuppa from BRUU is a tea blended with bold Assam tea and aromatic orange and sprinkled with rose petals. Who wouldn’t want to wake up to the scent of aromatic sweet oranges?

Price: from 2.95 GBP

Type: black tea blend

Caffeine: Yes

Where to buy: Get Christmas Cuppa from BRUU website.

4. Mulled Wine in Vienna

What would Christmas be without mulled wine? While there are many delicious, mulled wine teas out there, what’s super interesting about Mulled Wine in Vienna Christmas tea blend is that it contains mistletoe too. It certainly adds a spark to one of the most popular winter drinks in the world. Other ingredients in this fruity tea are apple pieces, orange pieces, elderberries, hibiscus, rosehip, and spices.

Price: from 3.95 USD

Type: fruit blend

Caffeine: No

Where to buy: Get Mulled Wine in Vienna from Churchill’s Fine Teas website.

5. Under the Mistletoe

If standing under the mistletoe is what you’re looking forward to the most this holiday season, there’s no need to wait. Under the Mistletoe blend contains mistletoe, pine nuts, eucalyptus, lemongrass and spruce needle oil. Berries and apple pieces accompany these wintery ingredients, to create a very unique, caffeine-free fresh herbal wintery blend.

Price: from 11 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: fruity herbal blend

Where to buy: Get Under the Mistletoe from Umami Tea website.

6. White Christmas

Who doesn’t love a white Christmas? There’s nothing more magical and peaceful than waking up on Christmas day, looking out the window and seeing the landscape covered in snow. White Christmas tea blend is gentle but wintery too – it contains more delicate white tea, a touch of sugary snowflakes, dried pine needles and a selection of warming spices.

Price: 4.95 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: white tea blend

Where to buy: Get White Christmas from Rosie Lea Tea website.

7. Red Christmas

No snow doesn’t mean no Christmas. Red Christmas blend contains South African red rooibos tea and all the warming and sweet ingredients to get you into the festive mood – apple pieces, almonds, cinnamon, rose and holiday flavourings. It contains no caffeine, which makes it great for late night sipping.

Price: 14.70 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal blend

Where to buy: Get Red Christmas from Chado Tea website.

8. Green Christmas

And yet, Christmas is green too. Think of magical Christmas trees, mistletoe and holly. Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without evergreen trees and plants. Green Christmas is blended with grassy bancha green tea, orange rind, safflower and sunflower petals, cardamom and pepper. It’s a sweet, fresh and fruity green tea blend with a festive flavour.

Price: 5.90 EUR

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Get Green Christmas from La Via del Te website.

9. Santea Claus

Afternoon Christmas tea parties deserve a special tea blend. This Ceylon black tea blend with fragrant jasmine flowers, cinnamon, cloves, and sugar Christmas trees is colourful and fun – like a proper Christmas tea blend should be. Colourful Christmas trees and a unique combination of spices and jasmine flowers will undoubtedly bring a smile to your face.

Price: from 1.75 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Santea Claus from Tips & Leaves website.

10. Silent Night

Silent Night tea is a tea to offer a silent, peaceful night. This blend is made with red rooibos tea, which is naturally caffeine-free, warming spices including cinnamon, clove, allspice, nutmeg and valerian. Both valerian and nutmeg may help promote restful sleep, which makes this blend a perfect choice for a late-night treat. Plus, it contains a pumpkin pie flavouring.

Price: from 10.98 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: Get Silent Night from DAVIDsTEA website.

11. Christmas Flake

Christmas flake is a pretty and festive blend that includes an ingredient quite uncommon in winter holiday teas – coconut. It’s blended with Chinese and Ceylon black tea, orange peel, almonds, coconut chips, rose petals and cinnamon. Sounds like a delicious breakfast tea, doesn’t it?

Price: from 3.25 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Christmas Flake from Colne Valley Tea Company website.

12. Brewdolph Christmas tea

This smooth and delicious tea is spiced with Christmas spices – cinnamon and cloves, Ceylon and Yunnan black tea, orange peel, and two other interesting ingredients – lime leaves and pomegranate flowers. This snowy Christmas tea makes a brilliant choice for festive afternoon tea parties. Available as loose tea and in pyramid tea bags.

Brewed and tried – read about it here.

Price: from 5.14 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Brewdolph from Twist Teas website.  

13. Christmas Charm

A part of the Christmas Charm is that it blends all delicious and common ingredients into a tea to get you into the festive mood. This blend is crafted with dried apple chunks, oolong tea, raspberry leaf, white mulberry, blackcurrant leaf, cloves, black elderberries, orange peel, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and cocoa. Spicy, sweet, zesty and herbal ingredients with an oolong base that sounds incredibly charming.  

Price: from 3.25 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: oolong tea blend

Where to buy: Get Christmas Charm from Camellia Senses website.

14. Carol Singers Christmas tea

Carol Singers is a black tea blend with holiday spices – cinnamon and star anis, orange and chocolate chips for more sweetness, creaminess and joy. Blended to make you take a break and simply enjoy the moment by yourself or with your loved ones.

Price: from 1.54 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Carol Singers from It’s Tea website.

15. Christmas Star

It’s not only the oranges that are related to Christmas. Christmas star is blended with green tea, apple pieces, cardamom, aniseed, star anise, cloves and sugar stars. But this unique blend contains two more ingredients – cooling peppermint and mandarin, a small, sweet, delicious winter citrus fruit. If you want a zesty fruit, that’s not orange, mandarin is a splendid choice.

Price: from 1.55 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Get Christmas Star from It’s Tea website.

16. Sleigh Ride Christmas tea

To blend a proper Sleigh Ride tea, you absolutely need to make it fun. And that’s exactly what DAVIDsTEA did – blended a fun and unique Christmas tea blend with no caffeine and lots of interesting ingredients. This Christmas tea blend contains popped rice, beetroot, hibiscus, candied fruits, roasted almonds, cinnamon, raisins and even coconut. A perfect tea for warming up after an afternoon sleighing.

Price: from 8.98 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: fruity tea blend

Where to buy: Get Sleigh Ride from DAVIDsTEA website.  

17. Elf Help Christmas tea

Elf Help is a tea blended for Santa’s Elves, to keep them happy and smile while making sure all presents will be wrapped and ready in time. Fruitcake inspired flavour in a blend made with sencha green tea, black currants, orange, papaya, apple, cranberries and coconut. Need more reasons to smile? A liquid fruitcake should do the trick.

Price: from 4.99 USD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green tea blend

Where to buy: Get Elf Help from DAVIDsTEA website.

18. Christmas Breakfast

Christmas morning for sure deserves a special breakfast blend. This Christmas Breakfast blend is inspired by gingerbread flavours and contains smooth and robust black tea. With sweet and spicy notes, this tea will say it’s Christmas first thing in the morning. You can drink it pure or with a splash of milk, or even make a proper Christmas Breakfast latte.

Price: 12 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Christmas Breakfast it from T2 website.

19. Santas Milk and Cookies Christmas tea

If Santa could choose a tea for himself, it would be Santas Milk and Cookies. This black tea blend smells like freshly baked buttery cookies that are truly difficult to resist. It contains three types of flower petals and sumac berries and goes really well with milk, too.

Brewed and tried – read about it here.

Price: from 4.95 GBP

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Santas Milk and Cookies from Yawn Brew website.

20. Candy Cane Christmas tea

Candy canes are a sure sign Christmas is just around the corner. This fun Christmas tea blend is made to bring that festive feeling not only with its flavour, but with its appearance as well. Candy Cane is an adorable black tea blended with cornflowers and lots of sweet candy cane sugar sprinkles.

Price: from 9.00 CAD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Candy Cane from Tea at the White House website.

21. Panettone Cake Christmas tea

Panettone Cake is one of the most popular Christmas time desserts. This hand crafted liquified version of classic Panettone cake is made with black tea, orange and lemon peel, vanilla and calendula petals. And it even contains raisins. All the Panettone Cake ingredients are there. You only have to brew it and enjoy.

Price: from 7.00 CAD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: black tea

Where to buy: Get Panettone Cake from Dessert by Deb website.

22. Spirit of Christmas

Spirit of Christmas is an unusual blend of green and black tea, pineapple, berries, coconut and flower petals. It contains cranberries, elderberries and cherries, another delicious fruit related to Christmas. This cheerful blend is great for hot and cold brewing, but it also goes well with milk.

Price: from 2.75 USD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: green and black tea blend

Where to buy: Get Spirit of Christmas from Sisters Tea Company.

23. Red Truck Christmas tea

Red Truck Christmas Chai Rooibos is a personal Christmas blend, crafted from childhood memories of getting a Christmas tree. It’s as unique as a Christmas blend as it is as a Chai blend. Red Truck is made with red rooibos tea and all the spices chai should have – cardamom, star anise, ginger, pink peppercorns and cinnamon, and a handful of others that give a festive and unique charm including cinnamon imperials, vanilla and rosemary.  

Price: from 4 USD

Caffeine: No

Type: herbal tea blend

Where to buy: Get Red Truck from Sisters Tea Company website.

24. Christmas Cheer

With three types of tea, the Christmas Cheer is more than cheerful. It’s a fun and unique tea that combines oolong, black and rooibos tea, flower petals, almonds and caramel flavour into a holiday blend that looks exactly like a warm fireplace. All ingredients in this blend go well with milk.

Price: 11.95 USD

Caffeine: Yes

Type: oolong, black and rooibos tea blend

Where to buy: Get Christmas Cheer from Open Door Tea website.

25. Christmas in Love

Christmas in Love is a unique Christmas tea with calming passionflower and lemon verbena, zesty lemon, rose hips, apple and hawthorn, and spicy ginger and cinnamon. It’s a caffeine free and festive blend for late night sipping during a holiday season to get relaxed and ready for another cheerful day.

Price: 5.90 EUR

Caffeine: No

Type: fruity herbal tea blend

Where to buy: Get Christmas in Love from La Vie del Te website.

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What is Santas Milk and Cookies tea?

Christmas tea blends are great for getting you in the mood for sharing and caring. As Yawn puts it, Santas Milk and Cookies are cookies and milk in one time saving for the big guy. And, for you too, as you won’t need to come up with different festive lattes recipes, when you already have a blend that you can prepare in different styles.

One thing’s for sure – Santa would love this tea and maybe he would even want to stick around for longer, maybe even for an entire year. While this is undoubtedly a festive blend, no one says you can’t drink Christmas teas every day.

Santa’s Milk and Cookies is a blend made from black tea and sumac berries and three types of petals – cornflower, safflower and plum. It looks absolutely gorgeous and smells incredibly delicious – like freshly baked buttery cookies. Ingredients in this tea are quite interesting. Sumac berries are mostly used for cooking, rather than blending tea. Plum petals are also not as common as cornflower and safflower petals, and they certainly add beauty to this tea.

How to brew this tea?

To make a cup of Santas Milk and Cookies, steep 1 teaspoon of tea per cup of boiling water for 3 minutes. This is a light, but strong tea, so don’t over-brew it. It has a buttery cookie scent and a fresh, deep, slightly sweet flavour with light buttery notes. This tea is perfect for adding milk and sugar. Try it with a teaspoon of condensed milk and some brown sugar or make a proper tea latte. When making latte, use 2 teaspoons of tea leaves and keep the steeping time for 5 minutes.

Santas Milk and Cookies is a brilliant choice for daily drinking, when you don’t want intensely flavoured teas or spiced blends, but would still like a festive cuppa. It’s great for afternoon tea parties too, especially if you intend to serve tea with a splash of milk. It’s available as loose tea and in tea bags.

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