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Plan out your perfect fall day in this short quiz to find out what tea you should be drinking. Which blend matches your favorite seasonal activities?

I don't know about you, but "Pumpkin Spice Everything" is my favorite fall cliché. I am absolutely obsessed with the taste of pumpkin, cinnamon, and those other fragrant spices. To me, the scent is the smell of fall. So obviously my favorite tea each autumn is Pumpkin Moonshine. It has all those delicious spices (cinnamon, clove, ginger...), plus black tea and pumpkins! And yet it's still light - not overpoweringly spiced like some fall drinks I've had. Pumpkin Moonshine is just perfect. That's why today I am bringing you a recipe for a Pumpkin Moonshine Lat-tea! No, not a latte, which is just a coffee with steamed milk. A lat-tea is a beverage with coffee and tea - twice the flavor, extra-caffeinated, and super delicious. (This...

A refreshing beverage to keep you cool during the summer heat wave. Since Sweet Dixie is caffeine-free, this mocktail is a beverage the whole family can enjoy! Mix up a batch on a hot Saturday afternoon so you can stay relaxed and enjoy the sun. This recipe makes one 16oz drink, so use your pint jar if you’re in the P&L spirit! Follow along with this video or keep scrolling to read the recipe down below. Dixie Colada Mocktail Recipe: Add 8 ounces of ice to your cup (or jar)  Add 2 ounces of Sweet Dixie concentrated tea (if you don’t know how to make concentrate, check out our brewing 101 here!*) Add 2 ounces of coconut milk  Add 4 ounces of sparkling...

Cupcakes Infused with Tea! Baking with concentrated tea is the best way to get a delicious and unique dessert using your favorite tea blend. Tea cupcakes are the perfect combination of sweet baked good infused with rich, complex tea flavor! We suggest making these fluffy cupcakes for your sweetie pie chai as a Valentine’s day treat using our seasonal Velvet Bliss. But this tea-infused cupcake recipe is also amazing for treats any time of the year! Plus you can use concentrated tea from any blend you’d like in both the batter and the icing; you’ll have a different dessert every time. One Piper Family friend swears this recipe is best with Lemon Berry Blush cupcakes and Strawberry Shindig icing. Yum!...

Special-tea Winter Drinks Before our favorite seasonals leave for the year, I wanted to share some of my favorite Christmas tea recipes with you! These cheery Christmas drinks use our winter blends (Cherry Christmas and Mistletoe Grove) so they're perfect to capture a last taste of the holidays before we start easing our way towards Valentine's, then March, then warmer weather. Reminisce on winter for a few days more with your family by sharing a specialty drink or two! Cherry Christmas Cocoa This drink is exactly what you need on a cold and windy winter day. Wrap up in a soft blanket and sip on a mug of this creamy cocoa, richly flavored with the berry-amaretto notes of our seasonal...