Birthday Cake

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Homemade Advent Day 19
from AJRimmer
This one is a nice breakfast tea. There was also quite a bit of sweetness which I assume was from the sprinkles. Unfortunately, I didn’t taste anything specifically that reminded me of birthday cake other than the sweetness from the sprinkles. I enjoyed my cup of this but wanted more in terms of it fitting the concept. It was a nice and sweet breakfast black tea without milk.

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Advent Season 2021 Day 23

Drank this last night and it was a slightly cake-y breakfast tea. Brisk black tea first. Vanilla cake batter second. Good but not my favourite cake blend.

Huh, I expected this one to be more special, but really, I only taste a boring, plain, somewhat astringent black tea. Hot, there was nothing cakey or desserty about it. I don’t even taste vanilla. With additions, it can be decent, but I’ve had much better cake teas. I added cake batter flavoring the last time I had it to give it a boost. Now I’m drinking the rest chilled, and I can’t tell if it’s the tea or the flavoring I added (probably the latter) but it tastes pretty good!

And it’s a sipdown! (but I already have a new one so I guess it doesn’t count.)

Yesterday was my birthday and Youngest came to visit. It was a gorgeous day and we spent pretty much the whole day outside, even having our meals out on the patio. We drank copious amounts of lots of different teas which I hope to get around to writing a note on.

I had intended for this to be my birthday tea from the time I saw it advertised, then I hit it hard and was nearly out, and ordered more. And of course, on the actual day I forgot. I was going through the whole “what shall we have with the cake…” and soliciting suggestions when I remembered this tea. I made a huge pot for the three of us. (Middle daughter drinks absolutely no tea but London Cuppa.)

The smell is pure birthday cake or birthday cake flavor Oreos but the taste is rich black tea with caramel, almost a burnt brown sugar taste. It was perfect with the butter cake with chocolate frosting. Ashman said he believed it was the perfect pairing.

If this tea had been super sweet and cloying like a grocery store birthday cake, it would have been terrible with cake in my opinion. Instead it has the body and black tea cocoa-y goodness to cut through heavy sweetness and let you taste the caramel and flavors in the tea instead of being overwhelmed by thick syrupy tasting sweetness. The aroma adds festivity but the tea has what it takes to go with your sweets and stand out as a solid, delicious tea.