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A treat for any day of the year! A tasty blend of vanilla, cream, and a touch of caramel. The inclusion of rainbow sugar sprinkles adds a festive note and makes this tea perfect for celebrating your special day.
Description from Adagio.com.
When I got this tea in the mail, I was surprised. This blend of tea leaves makes you believe that you’re smelling a delicious cake, full of sugar and calories that you don’t want. Adagio even put a decent amount of rainbow sprinkles into the blend. I wonder if these sprinkles will have any significant impact on the overall taste of this tea.
The components of what makes this birthday cake blend are flavored vanilla, caramel, and cream teas. However, they are indeed black teas. I think Adagio mostly pairs these flavors with regular Celon tea, which is a black tea that I’m accustomed to now after drinking their teas for months now.
There weren’t any indications of water temperature and brewing time on the canister, but I went for the average temperature and brewing time of black teas. Depending on this taste test, I’ll be the judge on how long the brewing time should be. I’ve been waiting for this moment for ages too because this tea has a very good reputation over at Adagio.com.
After the first brew, I could get a decent whiff of cake-ness from the scent. It’s not as strong as the aroma from opening the can, but it is there. When you get up close to the scent, it smells just like any decent black tea. Believe it or not, but I’ve never smelled a tea with such sweetness without any sugar additives before, it’s amazing.
When the tea first hits your palate, you will feel a bit let down because it’s not the amazing birthday cake you expected. It tastes just like any other black tea. However, the mid palate is really interesting. There’s a slight hint of the cream component and sweetness from the sprinkles around here. I think the hint of sweetness also comes from the caramel component in the blend. When all is said and done towards the end, the after taste reminds me a bit of the Keemun Rhapsody tea.
After all of this pent up excitement, I really do think that this is a very refined black tea blend that will definitely replace the strong Bearonica’s Berry Zinger that I usually take in the morning. I’d still prefer Keemun Rhapsody as the best tea to drink in the morning, but this ranks in really close. If you’re planning on ordering this tea because you want to “eat” cake everyday, prepare to be let down.
You can come close to that feeling if you add some milk and sugar to it. However, my opinion on adding cream/milk and sugar to any tea/coffee remains the same. You need sugar and cream/milk for cake! So you’re pretty much adding the ingredients of cake to whatever you’re drinking. Tea and coffee with additives is pretty much liquid cake.
Pardon me for such a bold statement, but those are my expressed feelings. I think that I might do a post on my feelings on additives another day.
Rating:
4 out of 5
