Coffee Cake

Smells great…
Taste was similar to what every one else has said. Really cake and oil after taste..

I’m still not able to totally pin down this tea. I know it is not my favourite. I liked the “energy boost from rich black tea”. It had a nice mouth-feel. I definitely did not taste any cherry or pineapple though. It has a strong smell which I wasn’t too fond of. To me, the taste was more of a strong vanilla flavour. Both the smell and flavour seemed too artificial for me. I wouldn’t try it again.

Day #10 of the advent calendar! This one tastes similar to Red Velvet Cake, in my opinion, though less sweet. I don’t drink a lot of black tea blends straight, so I added a splash of milk and to me, the flavour improved. I also enjoy the pineapple flavouring I’m getting out of this, which was unexpected. I’m not a huge fan of cake teas (the sweetness gets to me after a while), but I think I’d like this one occasionally. All in all, a decent choice for a snowy December day.

Overall I’m pretty disappointed with the winter collection. This tastes pretty much exactly like red velvet. Of course it’s good, but nothing new & makes me regret spending money on it.

I get cake from this, but not so much the coffee. The flavor comes off more like a spice to me than coffee. I do love this tea however because I don’t like very sweet teas and this is perfect for cold mornings.

This tea smelled so good I had to try it, despite the fact that I don’t usually go for the overly-sweet cake-y teas. Which is exactly what this is. Red Velvet Cake tasted like butterscotch ick. The birthday cake collection was rooibos so I gave that a complete miss (just the smells turned this owl’s stomach). Coffee cake on the other hand… was worth trying.

In hindsight I probably shouldn’t have done it as a latte – the milk brought out the sweetness a bit too much. I’ll try steeping it straight next time. All I can think is, this would probably blend well with a chai or something to balance it out. Perhaps Sugar and Spice… oh, and can we take a moment to talk about how saddening it is that the autumn teas are gone?!

Anyway, sweet is the word here, but in an actual tastes-like-cake way, so its not all that bad. Wishing there was more coffee in this one, then again maybe there’s the answer to the blending, Coffee Chai.

Hm. So many questions.

This tea doesn’t necessarily taste like coffee cake, but it does seem like a dessert tea. It is more of a toffee-like or caramel flavor. The black tea base balances everything out, but it makes the tea really bitter if you steep it too long, so be careful with it!

Cheers to my first tasting note of 2021 after completely abandoning my advent calendar entries…

I picked up a bag of this tea during a recent DAVIDsTea order, mostly to refresh my mind and palate on what it tastes like after having tried it one other time years ago. First things first, I was blown away by the dry scent which is sweet, rich, and very cake-like. The post-steep flavour is very similar. The candied fruit provides the perfect amount of sweetness that almost comes off as reminiscent to brown sugar.

This particular cup was prepared hot without any add-ins, BUT I definitely foresee a Coffee Cake latte in my future!

A favorite I hoard as it is discontinued. A warm cake like flavor with slight caramel/maple notes. It’s a flavor that’s hard to describe but it’s one of the few flavored teas I really love.

Trick or Treat! A had a single-serve sample of this that I got from Ost’s cupboard sale, thank you Ost! Made this up as my thermos to take to work.

The black tea base is quite sweet, coming off just a bit syrupy; it tastes a bit like burnt sugar or molasses, maple syrup, and a syrupy fruit topping? It was mostly nice, but something felt decidedly off to me, and I think it was the fruit note, because it tasted very artificial; I couldn’t quite place what it should be, but it was mostly a weak sort of overly sugary pineapple flavor. I think I would’ve liked this much better with just the burnt sugar/maple notes giving it a very cakey sort of feel… but then, maybe as much as I love pineapple, I’m just the sort of person that doesn’t care for pineapple in my coffee cake. At least, this particular coffee cake.