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Are you lucky to be with your family and loved ones this Christmas? There’s no better way to spend a quality relaxing time together than with a cup of tea. This year might have been filled with uncertainties and difficulties, but that doesn’t mean holidays need to joyless and difficult too. Which is exactly why this year, your Christmas tea party should be a memorable one. Here are some ideas to make your tea party festive and fun:

1. Choose the best tea

   Choosing Christmas flavors is a must if you want to set the right mood for a proper Christmas tea party. Warming spices, luscious creamy desserts, seasonal fruits and gingerbread treats all taste like Christmas and will make every tea party festive. Top choices? Almond Butter black tea with almonds and cinnamon, Pomegranate Peony white tea, creamy Tiramisu rooibos blend and the ultimate Christmas blend Gingerbread Chai.

2. Spice up your tea

   Think cinnamon sticks, cloves, orange slices, ginger and star anise. You can add them to your favorite strong black tea and blend it with milk, or even better – make a mulled tea. Bring water to a boil, add fruity loose leaf tea, cinnamon, cloves and orange slices and simmer for 15 minutes. Strain and add sugar. The best tea? A Fruity Dream blend with zesty hibiscus, rose hips, apple preserves, citrus peels and fruits.  

3. Prepare little tea gifts

   Who doesn’t like to get an unexpected tea gift? Use loose leaf tea to make small ready-to-use tea bags by filling pre-made tea filters, tie them up with a festive ribbon and decorate with a fir sprig and a small sugar cane.

4. Make your own tea baubles

   If you want to take your Christmas tea party to a whole new level, decorate your Christmas tree with tea baubles. Fill empty plastic baubles with loose leaf tea and use them as Christmas tree or Christmas table decorations.

5. Serve Christmas treats

   Every proper tea party should include finger sandwiches and cakes, and an afternoon Christmas tea shouldn’t be an exception. Turkey finger sandwiches with cranberry sauce, a cheese board with honey and walnuts, orange and cinnamon scones served with clotted cream and cranberry jam, and spiced rum slices are only some of deliciously festive flavors you can serve at your Christmas tea party.  

6. Bake gingerbread cookies

   Love to dip tea cookies in tea? Christmas tea party is a perfect occasion to replace regular cookies with more festive ones. Serve gingerbread man cookies with a cup of traditional black tea such as Vanilla Creme Earl Grey.

7. Make a tea eggnog

   If you are looking for a truly traditional drink, eggnog is an answer. Eggnog is a milky and creamy drink make with milk, cream, sugar and eggs. Make your eggnog with Chai tea, and served chilled sprinkled with cinnamon powder.

8. Decorate your table

   Even if you choose the best Christmas tea and food flavors, Christmas tea party without Christmas decorations will always be just an ordinary afternoon tea. Choose red, green, white and gold colors, take out your finest tea set and don’t forget to add candles, garlands and other Christmas decorations such as baubles, stars, pine cones and sugar canes.

9. Serve tea with a Christmas jam

   Instead of regular sugar for sweetening tea, offer jams or marmalades with Christmas flavors. A spoon of cranberry jam, strawberry and prosecco jam or a peach rum jam will take a cup of pure black tea to a whole new level. Offer a small bowl with freshly cut slices of oranges too.

10. Don’t forget to have fun

    Christmas should be all about joy and spending happy times with your loved ones. You can prepare simple family games, jokes, or share the most memorable moments.

Planning to organize a Christmas tea party? We’d love to hear your ideas in the comments below.