Happy National Junk Food Day! Today the prompt is to drink a tea with flavor notes of a favorite junk food.
I actually had a bit of trouble with this one, because most of the things that immediately stood out in my head I’ve already written reviews of quite recently (I don’t like “duping” reviews, unless it has been a substantial amount of time between the notes). For example, Marron Chocolat (because I love Nutella) or something like Candied Yams or my Tangerine-stuff Pu’erh (because Orange Slices are my favorite candy!) Lately I’ve been putting on a lot of cookie pounds, though, and this was the only tea I found in my collection with “cookie” in the name, so I went with this (I have not been very particular about what sort of cookies I’ve been nomming lately… they are all fair game!)
A Raspberry Almond cookie makes me think of those little thumbprint cookies with the raspberry jam in the center. I really like those, and my coworker makes some amazing thumbprint cookies! The aroma from the dry leaf is very sweet raspberry forward, though the honeybush has a quite strong aroma of its own. I can actually smell that “peppery” note I taste in honeybush.
The steeped cup smells like sweet/candied raspberry, honeyed nuts, and pepper. That’s pretty much what I’m getting in the flavor, as well. A very sweet raspberry, with a strong honeybush base with notes of nuts, oats, honey, and pepper. It’s a fine cup, but not one that stands out to me. I’d prefer the raspberry to be a little stronger/tangier in flavor, having more of a jammy quality, and while most of the flavors from the honeybush are very complimentary to a cookie, here that peppery note from the honeybush it taking me out of the cookie feel a bit too much.
I used up the rest of the packet making a latte with vanilla almond milk, and liked it more that way. Had a nice raspberry cream vibe, and the sweet milk hid the peppery taste from the honeybush.
Flavors: Candy, Honey, Nutty, Oats, Pepper, Raspberry, Sweet
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Yep, ALL the cookies. Not cookie picky.
Woo! Alita’s hanging in there. Yes, I literally signed onto this site just to say hi. :p
Hi! waves Yup, I’m still out there (and drinking tea). Haven’t been on Twitch in years though (just sort of fell out of it). Glad you are well, thanks for saying hi! :-D
Yep, ALL the cookies. Not cookie picky.
Woo! Alita’s hanging in there. Yes, I literally signed onto this site just to say hi. :p
Hi! waves Yup, I’m still out there (and drinking tea). Haven’t been on Twitch in years though (just sort of fell out of it). Glad you are well, thanks for saying hi! :-D