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 osmanthus?

Camellia sinensis tea leaves and flowers go extremely well together. Just take a sip of a perfectly blended rose or jasmine tea, and you’ll see what a harmonious match they are. With highly aromatic, floral and fruity notes, osmanthus flowers take this bond to another level. Never heard of osmanthus flowers? You are not alone. They are common in Asia, but much less common in western countries.

Osmanthus flowers are edible flowers from Osmanthus fragrans tree originating in Asia. These small, beautiful yellow flowers are extremely fragrant and flavourful, and unlike any other flower in the world. Because of their unique sweet peach/apricot flavour, they are often used for scenting pure teas and even for making desserts. Osmanthus teas are not as common as jasmine teas, but they are equally aromatic. While jasmine teas usually have a green tea base, osmanthus flowers can be added to other types of tea too – white, oolong, green, black and dark.

Base of Osmanthus Baozhong tea from Tea Repertoire is a Taiwanese Baozhong oolong tea from a biological tea farm in Nangang.

What is baozhong tea?

Baozhong tea is a unique green oolong tea from Taiwan. Taiwan is famous for its high mountain oolong teas, which makes Baozhong really stand out. It has bigger twisted leaves, and is light, floral and green, with no bitterness. This tea makes for a delicious cuppa on its own, without the need for any condiments. It’s lighter than many common green teas, with a unique flavour profile that’s perhaps the best described as a link between Taiwanese green teas and high mountain teas.

How to brew Osmanthus Baozhong tea?

The best way to enjoy any great tea is to preheat your tea ware first. In a preheated teapot, Osmanthus Baozhong is a genuine delight with sweet, deep, intense floral and apricot notes.

Use about 2.5 grams of tea leaves per cup of water, and steep for 4-5 minutes at 85 degrees Celsius. You can steep oolong teas at higher temperatures than green tea, but lower than black.

Brewed tea has a bright yellow-green colour with light, fresh, sweet apricot and milky, beautifully balanced flavour. You can re-steep the same tea leaves a couple of time. If you want to use a re-steeping method, you can use more tea leaves, less water and shorter steeping time. The second infusion will offer lighter and fresher notes of Baozhong tea, with osmanthus slowly fading with each subsequent infusion.

If you are looking for a gentle, but extremely flavourful fruity and floral gentle tea with no added flavourings, Osmanthus Baozhong is a perfect tea. Natural floral notes and incredible lightness make this tea a great daily tea. But perhaps, the best way to enjoy it is when you need some time out and want to pamper yourself with delightful flavours and scents.

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What is chocolate milk tea?

If you ever made hot chocolate at home, you probably know that you can make it using different techniques. Once of them is melting milk or white chocolate in milk. And that’s what chocolate milk tea is really about – adding a bit of hot chocolate taste to a regular cup of tea. Many pre-made chocolate blends contain chocolate drops for the same reason – to add creaminess and delicious chocolate flavour. That’s what this recipe is all about – to make a true chocolate in milk tea feast.

Which tea should I choose?

You can choose different types of tea for making chocolate tea, but pure teas or tea blends with a similar flavour profile will work the best.

Try it with:

• English Breakfast tea
• pure Assam tea
• broken leaf Ceylon tea
• ripe pu’erh
• dark, heavily roasted oolong teas

You can also try:

• Mint flavoured black teas
• Orange flavoured black teas
• Strawberry flavoured black teas

This recipe is made with Chinese Dian Hong tea.

Why Dian Hong?

Dian Hong tea is a Chinese black tea with a flavour profile unlike any other teas. It has natural but light maltiness and smokiness and chocolaty notes. This tea is usually drank pure, rather than with condiments. If you are looking for a tea base with natural chocolate notes rather than flavoured blends, this tea is a perfect choice. Of course, there are many Dian Hong teas out there, and each of them will have a slightly different flavour. Choose teas with beautiful leaves and lots of golden buds.

Another excellent alternative for making this tea is Assam tea, which may sometimes have dark chocolate notes too.

How to make Chocolate Milk Tea?

This tea is super easy to make – you can make it within 10 minutes. Any dairy milk will work great with this recipe – even a skimmed milk as chocolate will add texture to tea. You don’t need extra sweeteners for this tea unless you are using dark chocolate.

Can you just melt chocolate in brewed tea?

Absolutely. You can make a cup of tea, strain it, add hot milk and shredded chocolate. However, either simmered or steamed and frothed milk will give a much nicer texture and flavour. This is actually great for sweetening your tea with something unique, rather than using regular sugar or honey. When making milk teas, simmering is the best method, although the best doesn’t mean you have to use it, especially if you are short on time.

Explore more:

• 12 Milk Teas You Can Make at Home
• Charlie’s Dream Chocolate Tea
• The Heroine – chocolate and caramel matcha latte

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Chocolate Milk Tea

Simple milk tea with white chocolate

Course Drinks

Keyword Black Tea, Chocolate, Milk Tea

Cook Time 10 minutes minutes

Servings 1

Equipment

• saucepan
• Kitchen strainer

Ingredients

• 150 ml of water
• 150 ml of milk
• 2 teaspoons of Dian Hong tea leaves
• 20 grams of while chocolate, cut into small chunks

Instructions

• Add water and tea leaves into a small saucepan.
• Bring to a boil, reduce heat and continue simmering for 3 minutes.
• Add milk, bring to a boil again, reduce and simmer for 2 minutes.
• Remove from the heat, add chocolate and stir until fully melted.
• Strain into a cup or glass.

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Tea Question #1 – Am I choosing the right tea?

The most common question every tea drinker will eventually have is how to choose the right tea. There are thousands of different tea types, and thousands of tisanes to choose from, some similar, some different, but all of them unique.

What to do?

The best way to know if you are choosing the right tea is by defining why you want to drink tea in the first place. To ditch a habit of sipping sugary drinks? To improve your wellbeing? Maybe you want to practice tea meditation? Or simply to explore different flavours?

Once you know what your reason is, it will be easier to choose the right tea. The next step is to read a tea description and to ask more questions. Pure unflavoured teas will be great for tea meditations, pure unflavoured tisanes and real teas are a perfect choice if you want to enjoy the benefits, and flavoured teas and tisanes are flavourful enough to keep you away from sugary drinks. Strong blends and tea powders are great for cooking and aromatic strong teas make delicious tea syrups.

Tea Question #2 – Am I buying high-quality tea?

One of the most complicated questions to answer is how to know your tea is of the high quality. All teas should be of a high quality, regardless of their classification and type. That means, even if you are choosing broken leaf tea, it should be flavourful and stored properly. Some high-quality teas will have a lighter scent and flavour– such as Dragon Well green tea – but that doesn’t mean the quality isn’t high. Some tea contain only small leaves particles or even dust, but they should still be flavourful and tasty.

What to do?

Buy tea from dedicated and specialised tea sources. Learn more about the type you want to buy. Every cup of tea you drink should be a tasty one, cheap or expensive. Tea liquor shouldn’t be murky (unless it contains powders such as matcha tea). Learn the difference between different leaf grades, to know exactly what to expect.

Tea Question #3 – I have a tea I don’t like. What should I do?

Every now and then you will try a tea you don’t like. Maybe you don’t like one of the ingredients, maybe it’s too bitter, and maybe it just doesn’t taste right. If you don’t want to throw it away, there are ways to both use it and enjoy it.

What to do?

If the tea is fresh, try to give it a second chance or find an alternative use. You can try to:

• experiment with steeping time and leaf-water ratio – you could try using less leaves and more water, or try to steep it for only 30-60 seconds.
• add different condiments and try different sweeteners – adding milk or/and sugar will reduce bitterness.
• steep it with fresh fruits – find out which fruits are great for steeping with black tea
• use it for cooking – intense teas are great for making tea sugar syrups and for adding to cakes and cookies.
• add food flavourings such as vanilla, caramel, lemon or orange
• cold brew it in the fridge – cold brewing will reduce bitterness and offer a completely different flavour profile.
• make a milk tea – stronger black teas, darker oolong tea and some white teas are great for making milk teas

Tea Question #4 – I would like to drink tea, but I’m afraid it has too much caffeine. Which tea shoud I choose?

Unless you are highly sensitive to caffeine or need to avoid it altogether, a cup of tea in the morning is unlikely to give you the same energy boost as coffee. In fact, even a cup of tea in the afternoon is unlikely to keep you awake at night. Tea contains caffeine, and some teas may contain more caffeine than the others, but rarely more than coffee. For example, a shot of espresso is likely to have 60 mg of caffeine, while you can expect 10-50 mg of caffeine in a cup of tea. Some may contain more, but on average, expect 20-30 mg per cup.

What to do?

All real teas contain caffeine, regardless of the type. White tea can have more caffeine than green tea, and green tea may have more caffeine than black tea. You can choose to use less tea leaves, steep them for 1-2 minutes, opt for unbroken longer leaves rather than tea dust or teas with broken leaves, and choose teas made from older mature leaves such as bancha, or teas with stems such as kukicha.

Alternatively, choose tisanes – herbal teas with no caffeine such as chamomile, rooibos or peppermint or decaf teas.

Tea Question #5 – How to save money on tea?

You tried it; you liked it, and now you want to have it all. It’s very easy to get hooked on tea. And yes, it may become quite an expensive hobby. But a very fun one too.

What to do?

If you want to try as many types as possible, try subscription boxes. They allow you to test different teas for a fraction of a cost of a full-size packaging. Next thing you could do is swapping teas with other tea drinkers. Homemade tea samples make for a great and thoughtful gift. You can also try to experiment with making your own tea blends using some of the most common teas – Assam, Darjeeling, Sencha or Dark roasted oolong. And last, you can plan your tea purchases in advance and buy it when it’s on offer.

Tea Question #6 – I would love to drink tea, but it’s just too complicated to brew. Is there an easier way to do it?

One of the most common tea questions many new tea drinkers have is how to make a good cup of tea fast. The truth is, different teas will require different brewing techniques, but it doesn’t need to be complicated. Brewing tea may sound easy, but some teas are not so forgiving to brewing mistakes. Dan Cong oolong teas are a great exampe – you over brew them and they may turn very bitter. Regular green tea may also become undrinkable if you steep it in boiling water for 5 minutes.

What to do?

Until you are comfortable brewing different types, choose teas that are good for beginners and will not be bitter or too strong, even if you over-brew them. Flavoured blends are often easier to brew than unflavoured pure teas because they may be more forgiving to brewing mistakes.

Investing in a simple to use teapot will also make brewing much easier. Our recommendation? 300 ml side handled teapot with a removable mesh filter. It’s easy to clean, easy to use, and suitable for all tea types. Alternatively, try novelty blends that don’t require any brewing.

All teas usually come with brewing instructions, so pay attention to temperatures and steeping time to get the best flavour.

Final Thoughts on the Most Common Tea Questions

If you are new to tea, the number of types and flavour may seem overwhelming and you will undoubtedly have many tea related questions. But that’s also what’s great about tea. Even if you try a new type every day, it will still keep surprising you. Each type will offer something different and with every cup you drink, you will learn more about tea and your own preferences.

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How to make a Gingerbread Latte?

Lattes are all about steamed and frothed milk. You can make them with coffee and tea, or different spices and latte powders. Whichever base you choose, a good latte should always have a layer of frothed milk. That’s exactly what makes it different from other milk-based drinks. While black tea is a common base for making tea lattes, oolong tea can be just as great.

Which oolong tea should I use?

Oolong tea is the most colourful type of tea. It can be lightly oxidized and closer to green tea, or heavily oxidized and closer to black tea. Some oolong teas have a strong roasted flavour, some have intense honey notes, and some are aged and may have a very complex flavour profile. The best oolong tea for making a Gingerbread latte will have stronger, roasted or honey flavour. Oolong teas with dark, smaller twisted leaves or dark rolled oolongs may all be great for making lattes. Try it with heavily oxidized darker, roasted oolongs, that infuse into a stronger, deeper tea.

What is the best way to brew oolong tea?

Oolong tea is often described as full-bodied, but it’s lighter of regular black teas that are often used for making lattes. There will usually be more lightness in a cup of oolong tea than in a cup of black tea. The flavour is often more complex, with hints of ripe fruits and honey. To get the best flavour, you can boil the tea leaves in a saucepan, rather than steeping them. To make the creamiest latte, this recipe uses 2 combined techniques, for making a chai and for making a latte, including pulling the tea. Don’t skip the pulling part as it will improve the flavour.

What is a gingerbread spice mix?

Gingerbread spice mix is warm and aromatic mix of spices that includes ginger and cinnamon as main ingredients, and a whole range of additional ingredients – cloves, nutmeg, black pepper, allspice, aniseed and star anise. You can make your own blend by mixing. 3 parts of cinnamon, 3 parts of ginger, and 1 part of nutmeg, cloves, allspice each and ½ part of black pepper. There’s no one way to mix spices, and you can adjust ratios to find your perfect flavour. Alternatively, you can buy a pre-made spices. Pre-made spices are widely available and will give an unmistakable gingerbread flavour to your latte. Gingerbread spice mix is similar to pumpkin pie spice, but it’s more flavourful, contains more ginger, and very often black pepper too.

Oolong Gingerbread Latte Recipe

To make the best Oolong Gingerbread latte, always use flavourful oolong tea, whole milk, and fresh spices. You can replace whole milk with a dairy free alternative with a milk-like flavour and vegan condensed milk alternative.

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Oolong Gingerbread Latte Recipe

Homemade Oolong Latte with Gingerbread Spices

Course Drinks

Keyword Festive, Latte, Oolong Tea, Spiced Tea

Cook Time 20 minutes minutes

Equipment

• small saucepan
• Milk frother
• Kitchen strainer
• 2 cups

Ingredients

• 300 ml of water
• 100 ml of milk
• 1 tablespoon condensed milk
• ½ teaspoon of gingerbread spices
• 2 heaped teaspoons of roasted oolong such as dark Formosa oolong
• ½ teaspoon of brown sugar

Instructions

• Add tea leaves, spices and water to a small saucepan.
• Bring it to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
• Strain the tea into a clean cup and add condensed milk. Pour the tea from one cup into another several until you get a layer of bubbly froth. Add sugar and stir.
• Add milk into a clean saucepan and heat it over low fire. You can add a pinch of spices to flavour the milk too. Froth it using a milk forther.
• Pour the milk into tea.

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What is Watermelon Oolong?

Watermelon Oolong is a very unusual, tropical, pretty blend. It’s made with greener semi-ball shaped oolong tea base, blended with papaya pieces and plum and safflower petals. It smells and looks tropical. There are no watermelons in this tea, but we didn’t expect that either. Watermelons are not a type of fruit you would typically eat candied or dried, so the next best thing to add a watermelon flavour to tea is watermelon flavouring.

This tea screams summer. Light watermelon, deep and sweet papaya, and a layer of deep freshness. It’s intense. It’s pretty. And it smells delicious. If you are used to light oolongs, this is not one of them. If you are used to dark flavoured oolongs. This is not one of them either.

How to brew Watermelon Oolong tea?

Lighter green semi-ball shaped oolongs are always better brewed traditionally. That means using more tea leaves, and re-steeping multiple times. Which is exactly what we did. Traditional brewing using a gaiwan is not really a method you would use for flavoured teas, but there’s something about this tea that says it’s worth a try.

Using re-steeping technique, the same leaves can be used 3-5 times, depending on how much tea you use and how long you steep them for. Start with 30-40 seconds for the first steep. Use at least 3-4 grams of tea per 150 ml of water.

We tried it the western way too, using 2 grams per 200 ml of water and steeped for 3 minutes. This tea won’t get bitter either way, which is a great plus.

Which way was better?

Watermelon oolong may have a strong scent, but the flavour is light regardless of the brewing method. Light in a very good way. Watermelon note is more intense if you steep it the western way. Even when you use more tea leaves and eastern brewing technique, the second, third and fourth infusion will start revealing the oolong base with fresher, greener notes. Surprisingly, there’s a watermelon note even in the fifth infusion. The first infusion with both methods is juicy, smooth and light, with quite strong watermelon aftertaste.

If you love flavoured tropical teas but don’t like the strength and possible astringency of a typical black and green tea tropical blend, this tea is for you. It’s flavourful, light and juicy and would be a great daily summer tea. It would be delicious iced, too. When making an iced tea, use at least 2 teaspoons of tea per cup of water to get a more intense flavour. Since this is an oolong tea, it contains caffeine.

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