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This is my first tea to try from my Della Terra order that arrived today. It was full of shameless dessert teas like this one and cotton candy… Sue me! The dry leaf of this tea smells amazing – mostly butter with brown sugar undertones. It’s black tea mixed with a decent amount of candied pineapple pieces, various flower petals, and the occasional dried cherry. I have to assume the cherries are only there for style, since there were only like five total in my 1 ounce package. This makes sense, considering the maraschino cherries on top of the pineapple upside down cake are only there for show, too.
The first time, I brewed the recommended teaspoon (mine was a bit heaping) for 3 minutes. It came out far too weak for my tastes. So then I did about a teaspoon and a half for 4 minutes and it definitely improved. The brewed tea smells strongly of butter and brown sugar with kind of a toasted nut smell. It reminds me of a really buttery pound cake with some kind of glaze, which is pretty much what pineapple upside down cake is. I don’t get any pineapple in the smell.
The tea itself is quite tasty. I can taste the base just barely, so it must be a fairly mild variety since I steeped for 4 minutes and with extra tea. The flavor is very buttery and sugary with hints of dark caramelized sugar and cream. I think it equates very well to the actual cake used in the dessert, but I am getting zero pineapple here. Not even a hint of pineapple. And to be honest, that’s okay with me because this does cake very well. This is almost a dead ringer for that terrible-for-you sliced butter cake that you can buy at grocery stores (it’s like a more ridiculous pound cake basically).
I feel like this tea is a little weak, maybe I’ll try 2 full teaspoons next time I make it. Very tasty though!
Flavors: Brown Sugar, Butter, Cake, Cream, Roasted Nuts
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That sounds so good!! Too bad about the pineapple though…that’s disappointing
Yeah, I think they probably didn’t add pineapple flavoring and the little pieces of candied pineapple can’t compete with the other flavorings (plus they’re candied so they would mostly taste like sugar anyway). I don’t mind though, I wanted this tea more for the brown sugar glaze and the cake than the pineapple. :P
You can’t go wrong with a brown sugar glaze/cake flavor. Also, I order shameless dessert teas like it’s my job. You are not alone :-)
I’ve seen other people say they didn’t get pineapple out of this tea. It makes me want to try it. (I’m not a real pineapple fan.)
Ugh, your awesome description makes me feel even more bad for not restocking this one yet…
That sounds so good!! Too bad about the pineapple though…that’s disappointing
Yeah, I think they probably didn’t add pineapple flavoring and the little pieces of candied pineapple can’t compete with the other flavorings (plus they’re candied so they would mostly taste like sugar anyway). I don’t mind though, I wanted this tea more for the brown sugar glaze and the cake than the pineapple. :P
You can’t go wrong with a brown sugar glaze/cake flavor. Also, I order shameless dessert teas like it’s my job. You are not alone :-)
I’ve seen other people say they didn’t get pineapple out of this tea. It makes me want to try it. (I’m not a real pineapple fan.)
Ugh, your awesome description makes me feel even more bad for not restocking this one yet…