This passion tango ice tea is the perfect copycat of your favorite drink from your favorite overpriced coffee shop.
I have never been a coffee girl. Maybe it’s because I bounce off the walls after the tiniest bit of coffee or because I never really liked the taste of it (except for tiramisu because tiramisu is delicious), I don’t know. This is sad because I love hanging out in coffee shops. I love the ambiance, smell of them and the warmth they provide. I even love the sound of them so much that I have an app that provides me with a coffee shop white noise generator. Since I started university, coffee shop became my second home.
And while I am not a coffee enthusiast, I do love a good cup of tea. From the simplest cup of green tea to a perfectly spiced soy chai latte; from a traditional matcha to a refreshing ice cold tea and even herbal teas of all kinds, tea simply soothes my soul.
And like every broke university students sitting in a overpriced coffee shop with a name ending with “ arbuck”, holding in my hands a drink with my name badly written on it ( seriously how can make 2 mistakes in a 5 letter name), I ask myself what the fudge I am doing here spending the equivalent of an hour of work on two small drinks. So I decided to create my own version of one of my favorite iced drink that they serve. And while this might help me save a bit of money in the long run, it doesn’t mean my love story with coffee shop and here, because it’s only a beginning.
- Water
- 2 passion tea bags from Tazo
- 3 tbsp maple syrup
- 1/4 cup of lemon juice
- 1/4 sliced lime
- 4-5 frozen berries
- Fill a 1 quart mason jar with cold water.
- Put the tea bags in the jar so that the sting of falling out of the jar and screw the mason jar lid on so that it hold the tea bag in place.
- Put the masson jar in the fridge for a night
- When ready to serve, add the maple syrup, lemon juice, lime slices, frozen berries and ice cubes to the mix.
