It’s Matcha Month at Lahloo. We’ve been possessed by matcha madness! Here’s some of our matcha cinnamon streusel cake… we’re having it with a dollop of vanilla chantilly cream. Ummm! 

These cinnamony winter biscuits are the perfect stocking filler for friends and family. Everybody loves them! You can bake them in big batches and pack them in small cellophane bags, tied up with red ribbons. Or you could get crafty and personalise small cardboard boxes to keep them.

Ingredients

300 g white flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

125 g butter

80 g sugar

1 egg

3 teaspoons ground cinnamon 

A vanilla pod or a few drops of natural vanilla essence 

• Pre-heat the oven at 160ºC. 
• Mix butter and sugar in a big bowl until they go smooth. Add a beaten egg, mixing thoroughly. 
• In a different bowl, mix the flour, adding the raising powder, the ground cinnamon and the little ‘seeds’ inside a vanilla pod (or the drops of natural vanilla essence)
• Mix the dry and wet ingredients together into a firm dough. Knead on a lightly floured surface. Roll them to approximately 4 mm thick. Now cut into shapes and place these carefully on an oiled oven tray. 
• Bake for 12 minutes until they’re light gold. Let them cool on a rack until they harden.

Our lovely and super moist apple and custard pie is the best comfort pudding you could ever have! 

Chantal’s plum cakes with speculaa frosting, inspired by the lovely Belgian biscuits traditionally baked in December. 

Just in time for Halloween, we’ve created this special blend of our sweet Yunnan Cloud black tea with apple and spices. Our Witches Brew is already a best-seller at The Pantry. But ssssh, here’s how to make the witches’ secret recipe at home!

• 1 measure of Yunnan Cloud, our incredibly sweet black tea from China, with hints of baked sweet potato and raisins. 
• Three slices of dessicated apple. We’ve sliced and slow-baked ours. 
• Cinnamon quill. 
• A sixth of a vanilla pod. 
• Grated nutmeg
• Three black peppercorns

Leave it to infuse for three minutes… guaranteed to protect you against the evil spirits!