Today's Tea: Red Velvet Cake

This one is for Kaseteufel!

Red Velvet Cake from David's Tea

Ingredients: Black tea, semi-sweet chocolate bits, white chocolate bits, beetroot powder, sprinkles, natural and artificial flavouring.

(From David's Tea: Red Velvet Cake)


Steph's Thoughts:
I like this tea! Not only does it smell lovely, and taste lovely, but LOOK at it! It looks happy! All the little chocolate bits, and the little red sprinkles.... My first thought upon smelling it was..... "I know this smell!!" and then it hit me  - it smells like butterscotch.

I haven't had much experience with red velvet cake (except for some deliciously yummy white-chocolate covered cake balls) so I have very little to go on. But if red velvet cake tastes like vaguely chocolate-y butterscotch, then DT wins.

This is one black tea that tastes fine if you leave the teabag in. It brews a little on the red side (that's the beetroot), and tastes lovely with or without sweetener. (I use the term sweetener generically. I don't mean Splenda or what have you. I mean YOUR sweetener of choice - honey, agave, sugar, xylitol, or, if you must, some other lo-cal sweetener.)

It has a nice aftertaste, smooth with a wee hint of chocolate. It's not overwhelming, which is nice. Even Hubby likes it, and he doesn't like chocolate tea, as a general rule.

I think it reminds me of my mum's butterscotch cookies, which are amazing. (And a secret family recipe... My grandma made them with chocolate chips, but my mum likes the butterscotch ones.

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Great. Now I crave cookies. Nice job, DT. :P