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Fruity Classic Yogi Tea Loaf {and a Yogi Tea Hamper Giveaway!}

Published on May 13, 2015 • Last updated January 28, 2019 by
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An afternoon tea loaf made with Yogi Classic Tea – an Ayurvedic blend with cinnamon, cardamom and ginger.

Fruity Classic Yogi Tea Loaf

I am well familiar with the Yogi Tea brand. Having previously worked in the independent health food industry for a decade of my life, Yogi Tea was a regularly stocked and popular item.

NEW LOOK – SAME TEA

Yogi Tea have been supplying Europe with delicious, Ayurvedic tea blends since the 1970s.

This Spring, the Yogi Tea range of over 40 herb and spice teas has a new look: they have revised and updated the design of their flavours, in bold, colourful packaging. They really do have something for every taste and every mood, whether it’s something to help you get to sleep at night, something to revitalize, something to ease a sore throat, or just something warming to enjoy in the afternoon.

DOING GOOD

Yogi Tea don’t just make amazing teas, they provide support and funding for people in need across the globe through various projects including The Kumari Project, the Nevandra Association, Naturefund, Doctors Without Borders and the Neighbourhood Program.

FEELING GOOD

I have only recently discovered the benefits of yoga and I can’t emphasize enough how it helps strengthen the body and calm the mind. Yogi Tea have a guide on their website for many physical and breathing poses to complement your mood, calm your mind and help achieve balance in your body. For each pose they have a suggested tea blend to complement the exercise.

Yogi Tea Classic

Yogi Tea Classic is the tea that Yogi Bhajan, a Master of Kundalini Yoga and inspirational teacher of Ayurveda and holistic living, used to serve to his yoga students. It is a blend of traditional certified organic Ayurvedic spices: cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves and black pepper. It is warming, relaxing, spicy and deliciously fragrant, and used to infuse seedless California raisins makes one fantastic afternoon tea loaf!

As the tea loaf recipe contains no butter or oil, the only moisture it has it in the soaked fruit – soak the fruit for as long as you can, preferably over night, but it still works well if you only soak for a few hours.

I recommend thickly slicing the loaf and liberally spreading each slice with butter, and drinking a cup of warm Yogi Classic tea alongside.

Each of the Yogi Tea teabags has a tag with a motivational quote on the back. Tweet your favourites using the hashtag #teatagThursday so Yogi Tea followers around the world can share!

You can buy Yogi Tea at most independent health food stores, and you can find them online on their website, Twitter and Facebook.

Fruity Classic Yogi Tea Loaf

Fruity Classic Yogi Tea Loaf

Seedless California raisins infused with Classic Yogi Tea - an Ayurvedic blend with cinnamon, cardamom and ginger - make for a delicious afternoon tea loaf.
5 from 3 votes
Print Rate
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 13 hours 10 minutes
Servings: 12 slices
Author: Elizabeth

Ingredients

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Instructions 

  • Dissolve the demerara sugar in the hot tea and pour over the seedless raisins in a medium sized bowl. Leave them to soak, covered, for as long as you can, preferably overnight, although two hours will do. The longer you leave them to soak the juicier they will be. If soaking for a short time leave the tea bag in with the raisins while they are soaking, to add more flavour.
  • After the soaking process, preheat the oven to 170 C, and grease and line a 2 litre loaf pan.
  • Whisk the egg lightly and stir into the raisins.
  • Sift over the flour and stir until well combined.
  • Fold in the blanched almonds and enough double cream to make a soft batter (1 - 2 tbsp).
  • Spoon into the prepared baking tray and bake in the lower half of the oven (so that the top of the cake is in the centre of the oven) for 60-70 minutes.
  • Leave to cool and then slice thickly and generously spread with butter. Serve with hot cups of Yogi Classic Tea for the full experience!

Yogi Tea Giveaway

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate the launch of their new branding, Yogi Tea sent me a gorgeous hamper full of goodies, and enough extra goodies for me to share with one lucky UK reader!

Hamper Contents:
1 x Yogi Tea Classic – a blend with cinnamon, cardamom and ginger (17 teabags)
1 x Yogi Tea Throat Comfort – a blend with liquorice, fennel and thyme (17 teabags)
1 x Yogi Tea Choco – a blend with cocoa shells, liquorice and cinnamon (17 teabags)
1 x Licorice – a blend with liquorice, orange peel and cardamom (17 teabags)
1 x Bedtime – a blend with fennel, chamomile and valerian root (17 teabags)
1 x Stomach Ease – a blend with cardamom, fennel and ginger (17 teabags)
1 x Yogi Tea ceramic mug
1 x Yogi Tea ceramic travel cup
1 x Yogi Tea Recipes for Healthy Living & Yoga Postures booklet
1 x Yogi Tea cotton shopping bag
1 x Yogi Tea eco-friendly jute bag
1 x 2015/2016 calendar

HOW TO ENTER

For your chance to win a Yogi Tea Hamper enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back and tweet about the giveaway every day for more chances to win!

TERMS & CONDITIONS

This giveaway is open to UK entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winner will need to respond within 7 days of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.

The prize is offered and provided by Yogi Tea Europe. The prize is to win a Yogi Tea Hamper. There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.

There is no entry fee and no purchase is necessary to enter this giveaway. The promoter (Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary) reserves the right to cancel or amend the giveaway and these terms and conditions without notice.

Entry into our giveaways will be deemed as acceptance of these terms and conditions.

If you need some help using Rafflecopter, here’s a quick clip to show you how. Rafflecopter will pick the winner at random from all the entries received. I will be verifying entries and any automated entries or those who have claimed they have made the mandatory blog post comment and really haven’t will be disqualified. It’s mandatory!

Closing date is midnight on Monday 15 June 2015 (GMT) and the winner will be announced that day.

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Don’t forget to visit my Giveaways Page for other fab prizes!

LINKING UP WITH SOME FOOD BLOGGING CHALLENGES

tea cake linkies

This recipe was made with a bag of California seedless raisins which had decided to go base jumping of its own accord off our rural village shop shelf. I could only image the last microsecond of its life was filled with a rush of adrenaline. The side split open when it belly flopped to the ground and some raisins were lost, but the rest of the raisins were salvageable, so they got turned into this cake. The almonds were sent to me for review by a company called Wonderful, the duck egg was the last of nine Shetland-grown eggs given to me by a friend, and the cream was the last little bit remaining in the tub after I made my honey-glazed pears with cardamom cream recipe. Also, this recipe was made on a Tuesday. It was tasty. As such, I am linking up to:
1. Credit Crunch Munch by Fuss Free Flavours & Fab Food 4 All, guest hosted this month by The Baking Queen. This cake only cost me pennies to make, given most of the ingredients were given to me. As it contains no butter or oil it is a less expensive cake recipe to make.
2. No Waste Food Challenge by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
3. Tasty Tuesdays by Honest Mum

OTHER TEA LOAF AND TEA INFUSED RECIPES YOU MIGHT LIKE
Vanilla Buttercream & Lemon Cheese Triple Layer Cake Infused with Lemon Grass Tea by Coffee & Vanilla
Fruity Chai Loaf {vegan} by Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary

Now… I’m off to do my yoga exercises!

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Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary received a Yogi Tea Hamper as compensation for this post, plus extra product for a giveaway. We also received some almond samples from Wonderful. All thoughts and opinions expressed are our own. This is not a paid post.

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Solivagant. Foodie. Calls Shetland home.

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Comments

  1. Janice

    5 stars
    I’d forgotten all about Yogi Tea, I used to drink it all the time and must go and find some so I can enjoy it again. I love how you used the Yogi Tea to make a tea loaf it’s one of my favourite bakes.

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  36. Katie

    I go through phases depending on the weather. Right now I’m enjoying a Summer Berries one, I think it’s Twinings.

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  47. Elizabeth Charlesworth

    Depends on the day. I love Yogi Tea Classic. Whenever I go to France I call into a branch of Monoprix and get some of their organic blackberry and ash green tea. There’s a place near me that does epic tea mocktails: the one based on lapsang and mandarin is particularly delicious.

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  72. Emma

    I love herbal teas and drink them all day long! I drink different kinds at different times of the day but my overall favourite is probably fennel.

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  76. Layla Thomas

    My favorite tea depends on my mood and what I need at the time. If I need an energy boost I drink Green Tea with Jasmine, if I want something refreshing I drink Lemon Tea, after meals I drink Peppermint Tea to settle my stomach and for something different I drink Lotus Tea because I love the flavor.

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  109. Kate Cass

    It really depends on my mood, I do love Chai! I love traditional, I also love iced tea, I lived in the states for a few years and I miss iced tea being in restaurants! I over herbal and green teas, I just love tea!

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  138. Tracy

    Green tea with vanilla is my fave at the moment. I’ve not heard of Yogi tea before so will check them out.

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  148. Caroline H

    My favourite is mint. My summer crop of mint plants is coming along nicely so I can make fresh mint tea for the summer.

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  178. Nadia

    I would love this as a gift for a very dear friend of mine. She’d love it as it’s so natural and she suffers allergies.

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  187. Choclette

    Oh yes Yogi Tea is a good one. Hard to have a favourite as it all depends on mood, but I drink Rooibos the most often.

    Your tea loaf looks splendid.

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  189. Camilla @FabFood4All

    My favourite tea is English Breakfast! Love the look of your tea loaf which sounds deliious and thank you for a great #CreditCrunchMunch entry;-)

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  216. Emma @ Supper in the Suburbs

    WOW! Well I’ve definitely learnt something new today 🙂 I’ve never really thought about Ayurvedic tea blends before. This loaf looks lovely though. Real comfort food!

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  221. fashion-mommy

    I just love regular English breakfast from Twinnings if I’m honest, but that throat comfort sounds brilliant.

    #UKBloggers

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  229. Honey McKinley

    Earl Grey or Asda Chai for daily use but Twinings Rose Garden (now discontinued) was my favourite treat tea. Yogi choco is great for an almost zero calorie hot chocolate (I add the merest splash of skimmed milk too).

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  235. Philippa

    I love ginger and chai flavour teas. I’d love to try the stomach ease tea as I have stomach issues and a soothing ginger tea always helps. I’d also love to try making that tea loaf so that might have to be my weekend project!

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  237. Kathryn

    I must admit, I am a Yogi tea virgin, but you have sold it to me. I just want to run out to the shop and buy some now, and I’d definitely love to give the tea loaf recipe a go!

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  240. Petra Beck

    I love the Classic Yogi Tea with all the different spices, but also drink other herbal teas with peppermint being one of my other favourites

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  246. Helen

    I love Yogi tea! My favourite is the choco one – add some milk and it’s like a virtuous hot chocolate. Mmmm.

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