Alexis Kaae

Alexis Kaae

Old-Fashioned Gingernuts

Approximately 30 pieces. Ingredients: Preparation: Store in an airtight container and consume within 1 week, or freeze for up to 1 month. If you prefer slightly soft gingernuts, bake them for about 15 minutes until they are just firm; if…

Earl Grey Cookies

Approximately 60 Earl Grey cookies Ingredients: Whisk the butter and sugar until white and fluffy. Add the Earl Grey tea and lemon zest, along with the eggs one at a time. Mix in the flour. Once the dough is ready,…

Simply Tea Choc Chip Cookies

You will need: 1 hand mixer 3 baking trays lined with baking paper Ingredients: Instructions: Choc Chip Cookies taste especially good with a cup of puerh, for example, Shu Palace Puerh. You will achieve the best results by using organic…

Simply Tea Cheese Cake

If you want to treat yourself and your friends and family to something extraordinarily good and sweet, here is the recipe for our famous Cheese Cake: For the cake base, you will need: For the cake filling, you will need:…

Molbo Tea Garden and Tea Retreat

The Dream of a Tea Garden, Stage 1 I apologize to all of you who have been waiting in vain to receive a newsletter in April and May! I have used the Corona crisis to start a long-awaited project that…

Better to Prevent than to Cure

COVID-19Instead of hoarding toilet paper and disinfectant, perhaps we should fill our cupboards with tea? Studies have shown that tea can influence immune cells and thus our immune defense, helping them reach their targets more quickly. White, green, and yellow…

Assam for the Fall

Even before tea was discovered in Assam in 1823 by the Bruce brothers, the Singpho tribe in Jorhat had been using the leaves as an herbal drink. The discovery of the tea plant in Jorhat, Assam, enabled the British East…

A Journey Through Yunnan’s Rainforest

It was early July 2018. I had just returned to Denmark from Sichuan, China, where I had the task of being a tea judge and keynote speaker at the Emeishan Tea Expo. I barely had time to throw my clothes…

Can You Get Drunk on Tea?

Yes, yes, and yes again! More and more people report an almost psychedelic or intoxicating experience when drinking certain types of tea. This has especially been the case at several of our tea courses and particularly when tea enthusiasts gather…

Oolong Tea

For tea enthusiasts, Oolong is perhaps the most sought-after of all tea types. These teas are very diverse from one another, with unique leaves, color nuances, countless degrees of oxidation, ranging from 25% to 80%, repeated roasting, as well as…

Puerh Tea – A Sensual Experience

Last week, I had a visit from a customer who received a tea gift from a cousin in China. The tea was wrapped in silk and beautiful boxes and came in the form of two pressed discs. She had never…