Lemon Pound Cake

I can’t figure this one out. Maybe I got a bad batch? Everyone is raving about it. The kid behind the counter assured me it tastes JUST like lemon pound cake. I love oolongs. I love citrus. It smells like pure bliss. How could this go wrong?!?

Well it did and has. I’ve made it 3 times since purchasing and every time it’s been bitter and I have definitely not gotten the lovely lemony flavour it smells like it should have. Is everyone else drinking this with milk and sweetener? Is that the secret to making it taste good? I nearly always drink my teas black.

I own a variable temp kettle, so I know I’m steeping at an appropriate temperature for oolong. I’m also cautious about steeping time. I measure my tea and water every time.

I’m going to give this one more shot tomorrow morning. I’m going to do a minimal steep, and add soy milk and agave and hope for the best. If it still doesn’t taste good, then I’m going to give up and retiring this tea to the garbage.

So I really wanted to try this one when it came out last year because I LOVE lemon pound cake, but I never got around to it. I’ve also really come to like oolongs in the last 6 months or so, so I decided to take a risk and just get this as one of my free 50g of tea as it was about to expire and there wasn’t anything I really wanted to stock up on.

Like a lot of teas from DAVID’s these days, particularly the more gimmicky ones, I have mixed feelings about this one. While drinking it, I find it tastes very much like Froot Loops, which is not strictly unpleasant, but it’s not a flavour I’m really after.

But the aftertaste… Spot on lemon pound cake with a slightly lemony frosting. And unlikely a lot of DAVID’s cake teas, this one isn’t drying at all. The lemon notes in the aftertaste manage to come off as not artificial, unlike when you’re actually drinking the tea, and there’s a lovely creaminess that is just to die for.

I found that DT has made a lot of desserty teas this year, but I tend to try most of them, and this one is pretty good. When I first tried it I didn’t know what to think. I have tried it as a latte, hot, and iced, and I finally decided I liked it when I had it iced with some sweetener. But now I like it hot as well. It’s really grown on me, so I stocked up before it left.
I definitely get a ‘cake’ flavour in this tea. I think it lives up to its name. I enjoy the lemon flavour too, and I’m getting a kind of creamy taste with this. It’s sweet, but its balanced with the lemon zest. Overall it’s a good tea.

I am pleasantly surprised with trying this one for the first time today. I’ve gotten into the habit of under leafing DTs, under a perfect DT teaspoon, to prevent the imitation flavour peek-a-boo and doing that is a winner with this one. The first and second steeps gave up a lovely mellow lemon and vanilla custard cup two three and four with oolong supporting it all. A good afternoon pleasure.

Was not expecting to love this tea as much as I do. When it first launched a month or two ago, I was looking at it like “Really?” “Did this really need to be a tea flavour?” Well – I was pleasantly surprised because it’s quite tasty. I am not a fan of lemongrass but the lemongrass in this takes a backseat – thankfully. This tea contains some artificial flavours – I know a lot of people get really wigged out over that, but honestly it doesn’t taste that way. More of a “I wonder how they did that?” kind of thing. Upfront is mostly that “baked” flavour found in some other dessert teas, and lemon. The oolong is mellow and …I want to say floral.

Got this in the breakfast collection. Debating on buying a bag of this on its own now :)

It’s been awhile since I wrote a review. So I hope everyone enjoys. After finding out I was type two Diabetic in January I have embraced tea even more (if possible, especially after a 20 minute jog). Being able to enjoy cake via tea has been amazing. Especially when it comes to the classic refreshing lemon pound cake that I loved for afternoon tea. It has the creamy flavor of a Quangzhou milk Oolong but with the lemony twist that is so heavenly for the summer.

It takes all the flavor nuances up a notch I find. It tastes great hot and is a lovely iced tea as well. I have also tried this blended with the Raspberry Jam tea to emulate Starbucks’ Lemon Raspberry loaf to a fairly successful match. Magnifique.

I remember when this tea was in stores (that was so long ago now…I miss physical DT stores) and I tried this brewed strong over ice with agave. It was delicious. In order to finish up the ~2 portions of loose leaf I had around, I decided to recreate my first ever cup.

~2.5 to 3 tsp leaf
750 mL cold water, brewed for 2 hours
Added 1 tbs brown sugar, since I have no agave syrup
Served over ice

The cold brewing brought out the herbs (lemongrass flavours) more so than the vegetal oolong used in this blend. This oolong has floral notes, which I love. In the after taste you get buttery notes and a hint of vanilla.

It was fantastic! With the hot weather these days, I think cold brews are what’s going to keep me hydrated.

It smells heavenly – like lemon pound cake, definitely. It tastes sort of more like lemongrass and by the bottom of the cup is a bit sour and green. It’s a nice lemon tea, but the smell makes a promise that the taste just doesn’t deliver. As some others have mentioned, it might be better with sweetened milk, maybe almond milk? I’ll try it to see, but just as a brewed cup, it wasn’t what I thought it would be.

Lemon? Check. Vanilla ish sort of flavour? Check. “Cake”? not really. this is really just a lemony tea to me. Maybe with a little sweetner added this would be more cake like but it’s missing that sort of heavy, cakelike, dropping with icing sort of feel to it. It DOES hit the intense lemon aspect of pound cake on the head though. Do i love this? eh, it’s decent…certainly don’t need more outside of my sample though. :)

Drank this one on the way home from work a few nights ago; I had a moment where I was sipping on the creamy, buttery steeped tea where I was just experiencing total bliss and I thought to myself “Wow, I’m so glad that this oolong hasn’t been discontinued. I love how creamy these lemon notes are…” – and then the ball dropped, and I had this gut wrenching realization that actually this tea has been discontinued. It’s been a long time since I’ve had the soul crushing experience with a DT blend – I’m usually pretty on top of what is and isn’t part of the core line up anymore. I guess I was just especially tired from the day…

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 regarding the teas, and not the company’s.