So, I finally caved last week and bought one of DT’s tea infused “Hot Chocolate On A Stick”. I was really, really tempted to get the Candy Cane Crush one since I’ve been on such a CCC kick lately but I opted for this one to try something different and, in a way, give this tea another chance since I wasn’t super impressed the first time I tried it.
I thought the perfect idea would be to ‘steep’/melt the chocolate for this hot chocolate stick in the tea that’s infused into it – you know, for an extra rich/concentrated flavour and to really get the most out of it. So, I steeped up a normal, plain cup of this tea and then swirled around the chocolate cube and marshmallow until they were both melted. Only one problem…
The whole thing curdled!
I mean, I guess in hindsight I shouldn’t have been that surprised since the tea itself does curdle milk and this was a milk chocolate but at the same time why would you choose to use milk chocolate as the base for a tea that curdles milk!? I mean, you have to know that at some point someone is going to buy one of those cute hot chocolate sticks and try doing it with frothed milk or something like that – right? Is the tea infused into the chocolate going to curdle it then? Or is it just because I used this tea as the base of my ‘hot chocolate’? I mean, I certainly don’t feel like buying another one right now to test the idea out…
Anyway, curdling aside it actually did taste really good. It was very sweet and nutty, with strong notes of almond and chocolate. The caramel was actually a little bit lost; it was present but I think mostly just contributed to the really vibrant sweetness of the chocolate. I didn’t get any creamy marshmallow, unfortunately. The worst part was the same as the worst part when I first tried this though – the sour cherry. I mean, just why? I’ve talked to so many customers about this tea so far this season and I’ve still yet to actually have someone think that adding cherry was a good idea!
Also, yes, that’s right – I still drank it. I just ladled out the worst of the curdled mess, and then kind of sucked it up and drank through the rest. I wasn’t going to waste it…
Yeah – not sure how I feel about this experience as a whole.
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Yeah, that’s not the best choice to throw a tea that curdles milk into a hot chocolate cube that people will most likely try to prep in milk.