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drank Red Velvet Cake by DAVIDsTEA
268 tasting notes

Total points for presentation for this tea. Red and white sprinkles! Milk and white chocolate chips! So pretty! It brews up a pretty reddish-brown color. The taste, though, falls a little flat. I’ve been finding that I prefer a lot of the David’s Teas I’ve been trying without adding anything (which is unusual for me), so I tried it first without sweetener. It tasted like vaguely creamy black tea. So, I added some sweetener and that did wake up the flavors quite a bit! Then I added some frothed milk which was a nice addition. Now the taste has a white chocolate start with a milk chocolate finish. It’s actually quite good and if they had called this tea something like chocolate decadence, it would have been spot on. But when I think of red velvet cake, the essential part is the cream cheese icing. AMIRIGHT?? I was hoping for that element and ended up a bit disappointed because it wasn’t present. This tea is still a super tasty dessert tea, just a little simple. Plus I prefer dark chocolate. Thanks Virginia for setting some of this aside for me amid the red velvet frenzy!

Flavors: Chocolate

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 5 min, 45 sec 2 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML
Suziqzer

Yes.. Cream Cheese icing! Yummy stuff! Plus the chocolate… yummy combo. Too bad this tea was cute but didn’t live up to the flavor expectations :/

Virginia

I totally agree with you on this one. Although I do enjoy it once in a while, I’ve stopped expecting red velvet from it. It just ain’t gonna happen.

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Suziqzer

Yes.. Cream Cheese icing! Yummy stuff! Plus the chocolate… yummy combo. Too bad this tea was cute but didn’t live up to the flavor expectations :/

Virginia

I totally agree with you on this one. Although I do enjoy it once in a while, I’ve stopped expecting red velvet from it. It just ain’t gonna happen.

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Tea-obsessed, book worm scientist.

I love black tea, especially Chinese black tea- I’m looking at you Fujians and Yunnans! I also enjoy Indian teas, mostly first flush darjeelings (and a select few assams).
I think I’m recently starting to like oolongs better though- gasp! I’ve been cheating on my black teas with all these lovely, alluring green floral oolongs. Sorry I’m not sorry.
White tea gets a lot of love too! I am particularly fond of silver needle whites.
I can’t seem to appreciate green teas and rooibos is foul, IMO.

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