Spiced Tea Mix

Last updated on December 20th, 2023 at 11:51 pm

How to Make Spiced Tea Mix

Hot spiced tea mix is a wonderful gift in a jar – easy to make, delicious to drink, and well received by anyone who likes tea.

The spices in this recipe are cinnamon, cloves and ginger, and the infused flavors are pleasantly noticeable but not overpowering.

As a special occasion drink, this mix works well at Thanksgiving or at Christmas, when the cold nip in the air makes a hot spiced drink very welcome.

This also makes a most appropriate homemade gift for someone who isn’t feeling well – the warm orange spiced tea flavor is most comforting, especially when you’re suffering from a cold or a fever and you need those extra fluids.

by Jane Lake

Spiced Tea Mix Ingredients:

• 1½ cups of orange breakfast drink (like Tang)
• ¾ cup iced tea mix
• 1½ cups white sugar
• 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons ground cloves
• 1 teaspoon ground ginger

~ Makes about 4 cups ~

Jar Decoration:

• 1 quart (or 4 cup) glass jar
• eyelet lace trim or something similar
• ¼ picot ribbon or raffia
• 2 or 3 short cinnamon sticks
• white glue or tacky glue
• Printable Spiced Tea Mix label
• Scissors
• Paper punch

Spiced Tea Mix Recipe Instructions:

1. Stir all ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Pour into the quart jar (a funnel is useful for this but not absolutely necessary) and cap with a screw top lid, firmly screwed down.

2. Choose one of the free printable tea mix labels shown above. Click on the label to display in a different window for printing.

Print the label on paper or card stock, then cut it out (with fancy edged craft scissors, if you have some). Use a paper punch to cut a hole in one of top corners.

3. Cut the lace trim to fit around the jar lid, adding an extra inch. Glue the lace into place around the rim of the lid, overlapping the extra inch of lace at the back. Alternatively, you could just cover the lid with a circle of lace or pretty fabric tied in place with the ribbon.

4. Tie a ribbon around the lace on the jar lid, then tie the ribbon around the cinnamon sticks so that they appear at the front of the jar.

Thread remaining ribbon through the punched hole on the printed label and tie in place with a bow.

For coffee lovers, consider Ten Flavored Instant Coffee Mixes. All ten gift-in-a-jar coffee recipes are on one page so there is no endless clicking around the internet.