Festive Tea Pairings & Recipes

At Midnight – Midnight Chocolate Mint

We created this tea for stolen moments after dark when you’ve crept to the kitchen, or have stayed up late with the remaining dinner guests. This magical, minty tea is wonderful alongside a glass of Irish cream liqueur (if you drink), or with a secret scoop of vanilla ice cream. Anything naughty but nice, really.

Festive Tea Recipes – Simple Ideas

1) AVANTCHA Noel Mulled Beverages

The warming spices in our AVANTCHA Noel black tea are ideal for adding depth and character to winter beverages. Using our self filling tea bags, you can easily fill these with tea and add them to a simmering pan of apple juice, cider, or wine – infuse for up to ten minutes. Alternatively, you can also make a spicy-sweet syrup by infusing 15g of tea with 250ml boiling water and 250ml sugar and then add this to hot milk, or reduce the syrup until it is really thick and, once cooled, pour it over ice cream.

2) AVANTCHA Festive Tea Infused Chocolate Truffles

For this recipe, we chose our Midnight Chocolate Mint black tea purely on the basis that we could then also dust the truffles with a little candy cane for a little crunch. Find out how, with thanks to the Chocolatier Aneesh Popat for the recipe.

3) Organic Masala Spice Chai Tea Clementine Cake

This brilliant chai tea recipe – a clementine cake – was inspired by an original from Nigella Lawson, but takes the initiative of adding ground AVANTCHA Organic Masala Chai Tea to the ingredients to add a sweet, spicy and aromatic note.