Matching Tea & Cake

Have you ever Googled matching tea & cake. I just tried it and nothing really hit me between the eyes. I looked again and it had a plethora of cake fillings and several causes making cakes for charities. A lot of answers with tea cup and saucer designs but where do we find somewhere that informs you about matching cake and tea?

OK, I hear you ask Where? Well we have a customer in Chai Deli Mumbles, his name is Steve I’m sure he won’t mind me mentioning his name. Steve is a retired Nuclear Chemist and a prolific foodie we compare notes and he is forever bringing me cheese and charcuterie from local suppliers in Cumbria where he lives. Now Steve loves to match tea & cake.

In house we have around 50 different teas, everything from black teas, green teas, Oolongs, flavoured and herbal, many of which we will be introducing on the site. Now our cake collection at Chai Deli can vary week from week, day to day. Steve loves Kenyan teas and one of our specialties is a drizzle cake, not lemon but an Orange drizzle cake. Now this as a match is fantastic but we can certainly suggest others.

Darjeeling a light fragrant brew goes very well as a tea and cake match with a good old fashioned Victoria sponge, neither detract from each other. A stronger tea deserves a stronger cake and one in our repertoire is a fig, ricotta cheese and pine nut for this I would suggest a robust Keemun a black tea with a great smokey aftertaste the perfect tea & cake match.

We’d love to hear from our readers and anyone with their perfect tea & cake match just let us know.