Homemade Peppermint Tea [with FREE printable]

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Looking for unopen to homemade vacation gift ideas? You’re inward luck! I’m joining xi other bloggers to to convey y'all Homemade Holiday Gift Ideas! During the wintertime I love to curlicue upward amongst a warm loving cup of tea, as well as I’m guessing I’m non the alone one. I’m sharing a quick as well as slow agency to brand Homemade Peppermint Tea for your friends as well as menage unit of measurement members!

If y'all desire to brand your ain homemade tea, y'all direct keep to rootage past times drying out unopen to peppermint leaves. The long version of this storey involves growing your ain peppermint through the summertime months. If you’ve ever done this before, as well as hence y'all know how rapidly it spreads, as well as how easily it comes back. What a non bad excuse to brand homemade tea every year! If it’s every bit good tardily to harvest your own, y'all could e'er role unopen to from a friend or menage unit of measurement member’s garden (like I did!), or y'all could purchase the leaves at a local marketplace position or grocery store. It all tastes delicious!

Drying the leaves tin also been done inward a twosome of dissimilar ways.

1. If y'all direct keep unopen to time, y'all could get together set out bunches of the peppermint, as well as allow them hang to dry. You precisely get together the mint into set out bundles as well as necktie the stems amongst an elastic band to hang them upside down. You tin role a chocolate-brown newspaper handbag to embrace them, which volition protect them from dust as well as sunlight bleaching the color out. Make certain that the bags direct keep slights to allow unopen to air period of time as well as preclude molding. Hang them upside downwards inward a warm, dry out identify until the leaves are brittle to the touch. It commonly takes almost ii weeks. When they are dry, split the leaves from the tough stems (you tin proceed pocket-size stems) as well as seal them inward a drinking glass jolt or pouch.


2. For the time-strapped, y'all tin also oven dry out your leaves. Simply launder the peppermint, as well as hence split the leaves as well as pocket-size stems (remove tough stems as well as discoloured leaves) as well as lay out the peppermint on parchment newspaper on a baking sheet. Heat for xxx minutes on depression (100F), as well as hence cheque every fifteen minutes afterward that. It volition live done when the mint crumbles inward your fingers.

If y'all want, y'all tin brand your leaves into Chocolate Peppermint Tea by adding cocoa nibs to your peppermint leaves. They add together a chocolately flavor without adding melted chocolate to your tea. Just add together almost a tbsp  to a mini bricklayer jolt of tea. More if y'all desire a stronger chocolate flavour. Perfect addition!

This homemade tea makes a PERFECT stocking stuffer or hostess gift. Just pile the mixture into unopen to pocket-size boxes or bricklayer jars, add together unopen to jute string or a ribbon to pretty them up, as well as and hence add one of my fun FREE Holiday Homemade Tea labels!

Download your costless printable here! 

If y'all similar gift baskets, add together your homemade peppermint tea to a Tea Lover’s gift basket! Here are a few to a greater extent than ideas to purchase your tea loving friends as well as menage unit of measurement members:

1. Mr.Tea Loose Tea Leaf Strainer


2. Tea: History, Terroirs, Varieties


3. Stylish Glass Water Bottle amongst Tea Strainer as well as Sleeve


4. Disposable Drawstring Paper Tea Bags


5. Green Tea Mini KitKat Bars {I had these inward Nippon as well as they are delicious!}


6. Glass Teapot

Now it’s fourth dimension for unopen to to a greater extent than DIY Christmas gift ideas from my Canadian blogging friends. Get laid for unopen to wonderful handmade gift inspiration for your holidays!

From the top, they are:

Christmas Scented Paper Sachet DIY Gift Bag from Time With Thea

DIY Holiday Pallet Sign from Fresh Crush

DIY Lime Mint Sugar Scrub from Setting for Four

Go Ahead, Get Messy Family Gift from The Inspired Home

Homemade Peppermint Tea from Love Create Celebrate

DIY Clay Jewelry Bowls from The Sweetest Digs

Homemade Honey Lip Balm from Lifeovereasy

DIY Metallic Pouch from The DIY Mommy

Hot Chocolate Ornament for One from Bette Creek

DIY Glitter Bird Garland from PMQ For Two

Monogram DIY from Mommyzoid

Traditional Fruitcake from New House New Home New Life