In many ways this tea is kind of wish fulfillment on my part because I’ve wanted to make a churro tea since about 2021, and actually there were MANY variations on this profile that we tried before landing on this one…
However, personal interest aside, I think you almost have to have been sleeping under a rock to not see how commercial and popular the churro flavour profile has become in the last couple of years. I feel like I turn my head while grocery shopping and I see a new churro something every time. Kit-Kat. Ben & Jerry’s. Oreos. Haagen Dazs Ice Cream Bars. Baileys. Flipz Pretzels. Turtle Chips. Eggos. Bugles. I could literally just go on and on listing even more…
So, I think firstly, this is a sweet tea. It very literally has cinnamon sugar in it in a way that I find very eerily replicates the kind of cinnamon sugar you might have tossed on a bunch of churros fresh out of the frier at, like, a state fair or carnival. It’s really nostalgic to me, and even though it launched in the heart of winter it reminds me so much of the end of summer vacations where the carnival would roll into town for a week and you would BEG your parents to go and for one glorious night you would win stupid plushies at the midway, go on maybe a hundred rides, and eat candy apples, fudge, lemonade, and – yes – churros until you were sick. Just cherished memories. I mean, my very first job was working at a pizza stand (that served macaroni and cheese pizza) on the midway at a carnival right across from a churro booth. That smell of frier oil and cinnamon is practically BURNED into my head.
But sweet cinnamon aside, I think one of the other things I like about this blend is that it does maybe taste just a little greasy? But not in a bad way at all – just in that way that feels authentic to the fact that churros are a deep fried pastry. It’s balanced out by the black tea base which adds a nice amount of body and briskness and then a gentle creamy golden sweetness from the caramel inclusion – like a nod to dulce de leche which is my personal favourite thing to dip churros into, and something I discovered through exploring Mexican cuisine as more of an adult version the straight up cinnamon sugar I was used to from my childhood.
I do think this tea is nice on its own, but in my personal opinion is shines the must with an addition of milk (or alt milk) or if made into a latte. Hot or iced, I think both are really good. Toss a cinnamon stick in there and some foam with a caramel drizzle? Oh, that is HEAVEN in a mug. All my churro tea dreams come true.
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