This one is another one from the massive pile that Auggy shared with me. I understand that the name refers to some sort of cake or something, and when I read the description of it I was pretty excited to try it. This post is actually a backlog based on hand scribbled notes which I hope to be able to decipher, so this was one of the first of her lot that I tried.
The aroma of the leaves is awesome. It smells like fresh pastry, straight out of the oven. It’s nutty and sweet and warm and slightly spicy, and I was pleased to find that this goes for both the dry leaf and the steeped cup. Almost exactly the same aroma, actually.
In the flavour the picture was almost the same as before, with the same elements to it. It was still quite nutty and a bit spicy, but the pastry note was really the by far largest one of them all where before they had seemed more equal to one another. On the swallow and in the long aftertaste it turned all sugary sweet.
It was a very nice cup, but it’s not something that I think I could have more than one cup of at the time. One was good, but I think more than one, it would just become too much. It’s extremely richly flavoured, this.
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I absolutely adore this tea but I don’t think I could have more than 1 cup in a row either—it’s so rich and decadent, without any additions!
I was excited to read about this tea – because I just made a brioche today! It is not actually a cake but a very buttery, sweat yeast bread. Really, it is the dessert of breads, but I can’t imagine the bread and the tea would be good together. Too rich.
Brioche is really fluffy, wholesome and like a sweet eggy bread, so I’m heartened to hear that there is a tea out there that smells and tastes like a fresh pastry~
I haven’t yet been brave enough to try and bake some. But I will! Eventually!
I absolutely adore this tea but I don’t think I could have more than 1 cup in a row either—it’s so rich and decadent, without any additions!
I was excited to read about this tea – because I just made a brioche today! It is not actually a cake but a very buttery, sweat yeast bread. Really, it is the dessert of breads, but I can’t imagine the bread and the tea would be good together. Too rich.
Brioche is really fluffy, wholesome and like a sweet eggy bread, so I’m heartened to hear that there is a tea out there that smells and tastes like a fresh pastry~
I haven’t yet been brave enough to try and bake some. But I will! Eventually!