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How amazing can a chai spiced chocolate cake taste?

chai spiced chocolate cake
Chai spiced chocolate cake
Estimated read time 4 min read

I remember making one of those chocolate molten lava cakes and being quite impressed and delightfully surprised with the outcome. So I thought, wouldn’t that be great if it was a chai molten lava cake? That was my goal! Unfortunately, there was no molten chai lava flowing from my cake when I cut it open. But, I did end up with a beautifully chai spiced chocolate cake! Not exactly what I was going for, but made a wonderfully, moist, spicy, yummy dessert! I will continue to work on the chai molten lava cake so stay tuned!

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Chai spiced pumpkin pie

chai spiced pumpkin pie recipe
chai spiced pumpkin pie recipe
Estimated read time 3 min read

Every year I make a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving. It’s not necessarily my favourite pie but once a year it’s fun to make, share and have a slice. I don’t have a family secret pumpkin pie recipe that has been passed down the generations or anything. I just used the old standard E.D. Smith pumpkin pie recipe on the back of the pumpkin pie filling can. Works for me. This time though, I decided to use my spices and in particular the tea masala chai spice mix below that I found in Little India in Toronto this fall. I’m really enjoying this chai spice mix I found in one of the shops there. I’m probably not using it exactly as intended but I’m still loving it. When you open the container, the smell is amazing! Smells like you’re in a pot of brewing chai!

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How do you make a perfectly spiced chai bread pudding?

chai bread pudding
Chai Bread Pudding
Estimated read time 4 min read

I thought a chai bread pudding would be amazing. Soaking the stale, old bread in some strongly brewed chai; adding chai spices like cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and ginger to the bread pudding itself to get that chai spice flavour. Below is my attempt at a chai flavoured bread pudding. Note that the amount of “chai spices” added is a personal thing. My goal is to always get the flavour of the tea somewhere in the recipe. The sauce recipe is modified from an existing bread pudding sauce recipe. It is a work in process and will continue to be refined as the desired strength of the chai flavour wasn’t quite there for me. However, there was hint of it.

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Desserts Fruit Recipes Tea

Try this wonderful peach tea trifle recipe this summer

Peach tea trifle
Peach tea trifle
Estimated read time 4 min read

Trifles are a great, light dessert for the summer full of fruit and cream. It’s great in the summer because that’s usually when we get fresh fruit. This year peaches were really good so I tried a peach and strawberry trifle. Usually there is some alcohol in a trifle. The English are always trying to get some alcohol into their cooking where ever they can! All the tea and biscuits you associate with the English and not a lot of tea in their cooking. Strange. Anyway, I decided to use tea instead of alcohol in this recipe. Normally you’d soak the sponge cake in some kind of alcohol but in this recipe I decided to use tea. In this case I chose a Peach tea I bought this summer in PEI but any tea could be used! The idea is to get some tea flavour in there.

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Join me on the my Maritime tea run

Maritime Tea Run, 2018
Maritime Tea Run
Estimated read time 9 min read

I think a “tea run” should be a thing because I seem to have done my first “official” tea run this summer. I went to the Maritimes, (Nova Scotia, PEI and New Brunswick, Canada) this summer for a few weeks and decided along the way I would see what kinds of tea I find. I wasn’t expecting to find much in terms of interesting tea, tea shops or teaware. But I was pleasantly surprised! Below I tried to highlight some of the teas and places I found tea along my trip in no particular order. I’m sure I missed some as I seem to have more tea than what is listed below! I’ve included links where appropriate, either to the tea room or tea shop where I found the tea or to the site of that particular business. I’ve also tried to include the location,or at least the city, where the business from or where I found the tea. I don’t think I’ve tried all the teas in my “Maritime tea stash” yet, but I’m slowly getting through it!