Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Tea

Family teas (ok, any tea!) are one of my favorite things ever and it was so special to put together this simple Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Tea! I gotta have my Seder on the actual holiday so it was lovely to have this opportunity to explore the holiday and the seven species in such a yummy way with my family before the real day.

What You’ll Need

Date scones (Recipes by Carina recipe)
- Flour
- Sugar
- Baking Powder
- Cinnamon
- Salt
- Butter
- Pitted Dates
- Milk
Olive and cream cheese tea sandwiches
- Jar of green olives
- Cream cheese
- Multi grain bread that has barley in it (make sure the check the ingredients list!)
Cucumber and cream cheese tea sandwiches
- Cucumber
- Cream cheese
Grapes
Dried apricots dipped in chocolate with pomegranate arils
- Dried apricots
- Chocolate chips
- Pomegranate arils
Chocolate pomegranate sweets
- Chocolate chips
- Pomegranate arils
Fig jam
Tea
Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Book (optional)

Putting It Together

To make the date scones: Follow this simple recipe by Recipes by Carina.
To make the olive sandwiches:
- Chop olives.
- Spread cream cheese on one slice of bread.
- Spread chopped olives on top.
- Press a second slice of bread on top.
- Cut off crusts and cut into two vertical strips.
To make the cucumber sandwiches:
- Slice cucumbers.
- Spread cream cheese on one slice of bread.
- Spread cucumbers on top.
- Press a second slice of bread on top.
- Cut off crusts and cut into two triangles.
To make the chocolate dipped apricots:
- In a microwave bowl, melt chocolate chips in 20 second bursts, stirring in between, until they are melted.
- Dip half a dried apricot in the chocolate.
- Place a few pomegranate arils on top of the chocolate.
- Let set (takes a few hours).
To make the chocolate pomegranate sweets:
- In a microwave bowl, melt chocolate chips in 20 second bursts, stirring in between, until they are melted.
- Place pomegranate arils in the bottom of a silicone mini mold and add melted chocolate on top and let set or spoon a dollop of chocolate onto parchment paper and add a few arils on top and let set.
Rinse some grapes.
Set your table with whatever special dishes you want. Paper plates are always ok!
If you have a 3 tiered tray, set sandwiches on bottom, scones next, then sweets and grapes on top. If you don’t have a tiered tray, just place all the food on separate plates.
Set out the fig jam.
Make tea.
Invite your family to join you for a special Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Tea!
I recommend also making a Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Book to review while having your tea to make it extra special (and educational, woo hoo!).

Finished & Loving It!

We had such a fun time being together, exploring the seven species and having this special tea together!

We used our Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Book to identify each of the seven species and then find them in our tea. The kids loved getting to guess which foods had each seven species. Although tasting them all was the best part!

I especially love the date scones. This was the first time I tried this recipe and they are sweet but not overly so. The fig jam makes it extra yummy, of course! I think the pomegranate arils might have been the kids’ favorite. And the chocolate too of course!

I really loved the opportunity to enjoy a morning with my family while also incorporating this type of hands-on learning. Using our Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Book and enjoying all the seven species in delicious ways during our Tu B’Shevat Seven Species Tea not only helped us review all the seven species and the holiday of Tu B’Shevat, but also gave us that extra special family time which makes our holidays extra meaningful and lovely!