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“Y’all. Making a gingerbread tea was so much harder than I expected it to be. It took probably around three years to really perfect this blend to the point where we were ready to launch it. The...” Read full tasting note
Perfectly decadent with rich notes of molasses, toffee, spice and a hint of cocoa.
dreams dough come true
Everyone loves gingerbread cookies, right? Well, what if we told you we took toffee, spice and everything nice and rolled it into one dark & delicious pu’erh tea to create Gingerbread Toffee. We even topped off this decadent fresh-out-the-oven recipe with a hint of warming spices and rich cocoa. Just make sure you try it as a latte if you’re looking for a festive & frothy treat. SO YUMMY.
What makes it great:
This blend was three years in the making—going for a pu’erh tea base really changed the game, giving this blend a rich & dark flavour.
Makes the perfect latte to dunk gingerbread or other holiday cookies into!
Lovers of Brown Sugar Bourbon, English Toffee or Cardamom French Toast will adore this tea, too!
Ginger, Black tea, Pu’erh tea, Cinnamon, Caramel flakes (sugar, glucose syrup), Cocoa husk, Caramel (sugared condensed skimmed milk, sugar, glucose syrup, butterfat, humectant sorbitol, mono and diglycerides of fatty acids), Allspice, Cocoa bean, Natural flavouring.
Contains: Dairy
DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.
Y’all. Making a gingerbread tea was so much harder than I expected it to be.
It took probably around three years to really perfect this blend to the point where we were ready to launch it. The ginger was maybe the easiest part, but getting the balance of the rest of the spices and that really distinct, borderline molasses tasting “sweet brown” flavour was tough. A lot of previous versions of this tea came out either fruity leaning or too bright and just not quite right. I love this one though. It’s my favourite of all the new holiday teas this year.
The pu’erh tea base is so essential to getting the profile right. It’s full-bodied, very rich and also grounding and earthy which created the perfect framework to layer the spices and more decadent notes overtop. In addition to ginger this blend has all the spices that are traditionally used in gingerbread. It’s really the use of allspice that gives it that especially cozy and festive sort of spice note and feeling. I just said it in another tasting note, but it’s sort of crazy how in North America we have this Pavlovian response to allspice where we just associate that taste with the holidays. I think it REALLY captures that dense, darkly spice and sweet gingerbread flavour so well though!
And of course the toffee! Y’all know I love a good caramel or toffee blend, and I think the toffee note in this tea is pretty close to perfect. It’s thick and not too bright at all so it really emulates that deeply golden, densely rich sweetness very well. There’s a hint of cocoa in the blend and though I personally prefer my toffee/caramel teas without chocolate I do think that inclusion really helps give it some depth and extra decadence.
And so good as a latte. Hot, but also iced. I drink it as an iced latte very, very often. It was one of my go to iced latte blends this summer while I was waiting for it to launch. Haven’t done it as an eggnog latte yet, but I can only imagine the sublime level of indulgence that would be.
I think this blend will really appeal to fans of teas like Salted Caramel Oolong, Cardamom French Toast, Brown Sugar Bourbon, English Toffee (IMO it’s way better than English Toffee), Burnt Sugar Boba, S’mores Chai, Jack Frosted Mocha, and Hazelnut Chocolate. Y’know. The decadent, sweet, and brown tasting teas. Like, I don’t want to call it prematurely but I can see this becoming on of those big returning holiday teas. But maybe that’s me projecting a little bit.
Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.
