Homemade Lattes

I'm a big tea person and I don't think I could ever add up all the money I've spend at countless cafes and coffee chains over the years buying myself all kinds of tea lattes(yah I'm looking at you Starbucks). They just taste sooo good! But with the fact that I have no job for the summer, I have to start watching all the little extra items I buy (especially on whim) sigh. ENTER THE HOMEMADE TEA LATTES.

It started off a couple weeks ago when I was at square one. I was walking by the Zellers with me mum when I decided to venture into the little tea shop called Teaopia (cheesy i know) to satisfy my latte craving. I ordered the mint chocolate tea latte because it intrigued me (and ok.. the guy serving me was pretty cute too). At just a little under $5 I thought it'd taste amazing, but it fell short. It was pretty good, but I didn't think it was worth $5. To say the least I was somewhat disappointed.

Fast forward to last weekend while downtown my friend suggested we go into this tea place on queen st. to have a look around. They had all these canisters of loose leaf teas on the wall with flavours I didn't even know existed. Long story short, I entered empty handed and exited the store minus $6 and a canister of their mint chocolate rooibos tea. The justification was logical really. why would I go buy a cup of 5 dollar ok tea when I could make about 25 cups of the same tea at home for $6 (WORTH IT).

This is what the tea looks like. there's even real chocolate chips in it and it smells heavenly. sometimes I just open the canister to smell it haha

So here's to homemade tea lattes complete with FOAM :D

I've found that as a steeped tea itself it tastes just like regular tea with a little bit of a chocolate mint after taste. but when you turn it into a latte, the flavour is more prominent and it's pretty dang good! and yes it's in my mug because i don't have fancy cups. i wished i had a cool cup and saucer to drink out of

and that's my tea story. the end.