I’m a chocolate fiend and I knew I needed this in my life. In the bag, it smells like legit chocolate cake. Cocoa, and even a sort of “dense” smell. Like dense, moist cake. Reaching into the bag and eating some of the dry tea actually crossed my mind before I came to my senses and went ahead and brewed it.
It made my kitchen smell divine! Once brewed, the tea smelled different from the dry tea; it was more tea-like and less obviously chocolatey. I sweetened it with sugar, because you can’t have unsweetened chocolate cake, now can you? What fun is that?
I liked that this one had no scum, but it was completely opaque, which was interesting. It didn’t have a ton of flavor from the start, but after it had cooled some the chocolate cake flavor really did start to come out more. I found it unlike the chocolate flavor used in other DavidsTea chocolate teas, it was more real I guess. More like actual cocoa powder, which could be why some people are finding it sort of dusty.
I really enjoy this one. Unfortunately though, it didn’t stop my chocolate craving, it made me want chocolate cake or brownies.
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