A long time ago, in a land far far away (Sri Lanka), my great grandfather set up a tea factory in the hills of Ratnapura. It still stands there today and is run by my great-uncle. It makes stellar tea and if you’re in the market for some Single Origin estate Ceylon Tea, there’s no finer than:
New Vithanakande Estate
Since I love drinking tea, I figured I must enjoy cooking with it right? Hence this recipe. This is an ode to the Sri Lanan tradition of drinking very sweet black tea with ginger.
Ingredients
Melted butter, to grease
Plain flour, to dust
195g (1 1/2 cups) pure icing sugar, sifted
75g (1/2 cup) plain flour, sifted
155g (1 1/2 cups) almond meal
3 eggs, lightly whisked
190g unsalted butter, melted, cooled
4-5 teaspoons of good loose leaf black tea
2 teaspoons of powdered ginger
Icing sugar, to dust
Instructions
Preheat oven to 180°C. Brush thirty 40ml-capacity mini muffin pans with melted butter to grease. Dust with plain flour.
In a small pan combine butter and tea and place on a low heat.
When the butter is melted remove from the heat and leave to stand for 10 minutes. When the butter has taken on some of the colour of the tea, pour through a fine sieve and leave butter to cool.
Combine the sugar, flour, powdered ginger and almond meal in a bowl. Make a well in the centre.
Add egg and infused butter. Stir until well combined.
Divide among the prepared pans. Divide the raspberries among the centres. Sprinkle with the flaked almonds.
Bake for 15-20 minutes or until light golden. Set aside in the pans for 5 minutes to cool slightly before transferring to wire racks to cool completely.
Dust the friands with icing sugar to serve.
Serve with a cup of Ceylon tea.
akkis kitchen 
Hey Chath, do you think Dilmah would be good enough for this recipe?
Definitely. I think I made these with dilmah last time.