So excited to share a new idea!
Everyone needs a little Sparkle… and now you can enjoy sparkles in tea!
Just stir about 1/16 tsp of our specialty Gourmet Sparkles™ into a cup of tea, and enter a fairytale moment! Or try our fun craft project, below, to make Glitter Tea Bags for treats and gifts that sparkle!
Fairytale Tea
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Edible Ink Project
Enjoy making glitter tea bags with golden edible ink, and create “fairytale moments” for yourself or friends!
One bottle of Gourmet Sparkles™ makes enough ink for about 24 tea bags. FDA approved food safe, our Gourmet Sparkles™ are so much fun to work with… you’ll feel as if in a fairytale bakery, with little sparkles on your hands (and everywhere)!
Glitter Tea Bags
Easy to do, this is a fun project, especially when you need a princess moment! First, make edible gold ink, then apply to tea bags, using either a stencil or a craft stamp.
Supplies:
Tea Bags, single serving size
Gourmet Sparkles™ > (about 1/4 tsp for 4 tea bags, 1/2 tsp for 8 // 1 bottle for 24)
small bowl water
craft brush
stencils &/or stamps
Edible Gold Ink
DIRECTIONS
1. It only takes about 1/16 tsp Gourmet Sparkles per tea bag.
Measure and place gold Sparkles on a saucer and add drops of water, until you have a “watercolor” consistency.
2. Then, place a stencil over the tea bag and fill in with your lovely edible ink, or use the golden ink with a craft stamp.
3, Use a craft brush to fill the stencil in nicely and/or to fill in where the stamp’s ink didn’t cover well enough.
*You can use ready-made stencils, but I cut mine out of stiff paper, using a star cookie cutter & heart, as a pattern.
(Tape around the cut edges with clear tape, to make the stencils more sturdy.)
To carry out the fairytale theme, I loved using a Crown design stamp!
4. Let the ink dry (about an hour or so). Store tea bags in a box or tin.
And now you have a delightful treat to look forward to, when you need a sparkle moment!
Or
make several glittery tea bags and package in a pretty boxes for friends ~
a lovely, special gift!
To Use
Just brew your tea bag & sweeten as usual. The sparkles show up best in white tea, but black tea is fine.
*Under bright light, the sparkles really show off!
*(We’ll be offering DIY kits soon, with tea bags, Gourmet Sparkles™ and pretty gold favor boxes)
Fairytale Tea
this photo: made with white tea // (top photo: with black tea)
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