Chocolate Macaroon

I go to this tea when I have my chocolate cravings and it helps.
Such a good tea, delish!

Yay, coconut! It’s the closest to SoHo Blend I could get locally. I had a Harney cart filled out but then I was reminded of the $15 shipping… I knew about the fee as I ordered before but I guess when you see it written down there at the TOTAL it’s kinda, well, jarring. :)

But this came to me courtesy of the lovely salesperson at the Church St. DAVIDs Tea, Toronto. I went with a long list and told her I had a budget and kinda didn’t want to go over, asked her to keep an eye on the total. We went $2 over, which I was ok with, but it meant I had to abandon the sample of chocolate macaroon I was going to add to my list. And you know what she did, totally gave me 16 grams free of charge. She said she knew I really wanted to try it and so she gave me some. How’s that for customer service? :)

I like the tea also but I agree it is thin tasting. I also knew it was sweet and only added a pinch of sugar (it’s gotta be psychological at this point, what’s a pinch of sugar to a 8 oz cup?, I should just leave it out).

The first few sips were very much coconut, yummy coconut, reminded me quite a bit of the SoHo blend in that respect. I then made the mistake of adding almond coconut milk because I wanted it creamier. Unfortunately now all I can taste is my almond milk. Maybe because this is so thin tasting, it can’t take much addition and still maintain its own flavour.

I have enough for another cup and I will likely buy more but I have to figure out what to mix it with for stronger base — don’t have many str8 black teas in house — I don’t want to just use more because it would become too expensive that way.

Method: 1.5 tsp, 8 oz, 205 degrees, 5 minutes, French Press

Dry Leaf Aroma: Chocolate with a hint of coconut

Flavor: I get some chocolate, but no coconut. The flavor is weak at a 5 min steep. Instructions were 4-7 minutes, so it might be better at 6 or 7 min. I have enough for one cup remaining, so I’ll give that a try and update as needed.

I actually liked this better when it was cool to room temp. The flavor seemed a little more vivid. Maybe this would be good cold!

I really like this tea, but you do have to let it steep for about 7 minutes or maybe even a little longer. It is currently one of my favourites.

Thin-tasting

My mum is a big coconut fan. She used to always make these coconut chocolate macaroons. I didn’t like them at first because growing up I didn’t like coconut. But they grew on me. Which is good, because this tea tastes exactly like it!
It’s smooth and rich.
For once the coconut wasn’t too overpowering. The chocolate had a strong part in this tea. Definitely worth a try if you like chocolate and coconut! (:

I hated this tea when I had it. HATED it but when yet anothe DAVIDs employee recommended it as their first choice for an eggnog latte, I caved. It helped that the salesperson promised she would make me another, different flavored one, if I hated it so I figured why not. Honestly, it actually worked out pretty well. The cloying sweetness I got from the plain tea was buried beneath the rich chocolate/nut notes and the eggnoggy sweetness. Plus, it highlighted the coconut which worked well in this cup as it blended well with the other flavors (as opposed to the issue of the Fantasy Island eggnog latte where the coconut just took over). Oh and as an added bonus? I got two vouchers for a free cup of tea because I was polite about waiting (not that it took that long anyways).

Tried this one with the nepal black, too. Don’t remember all the details, but it was good. The flavors didn’t go together as well as with the kenyan tinderet, so I might see if I like the nepal black straight, better. :)

This tea is a true work or art. I never thought that such a rich, deep chocolate flavor could ever work in a tea. in addition to the chocolate, there are other little subtle flavor that go so well together and make this tea, the masterpiece that it is.

This is one of the sweetest teas I’ve ever had! It has the slightest background taste of toasted coconut and a nutty flavor. The black tea base is excellent for the tea because it balances out the sweetness perfectly while not overpowering the other subtle flavors in the tea.

As for the steeping, it is very important that this tea only steeps for the recommended amount of time, or else it will become unpleasantly sweet!

Forgot to review this when I first got it, so here’s some notes on my final cup of it as I remove it from my cupboard.
My first complaint that this was another of Davids’ tea with too much “stuff”. I’ve been thinking about making a teatra.de post about tea with too much “stuff”; Davids and Teavana are two companies (as well as Art Knapp’s tea, though that isn’t as known) that fall under this subject, I think. They both like their “stuff”, though they tend to keep a good ratio of tea.
But this one, and one other that I remember (cranberry pear from Davids’), had exceptionally large “stuff”. So much so that when you scooped teaspoons of it out to brew, all the little tea leaves would sink to the bottom so your first several (or most of) your cups would end up being almost caffeine-free, being made up of most of the larger ingredients. Sometimes you forget the solid base black tea provides until it’s suddenly absent from the brew.
You sort’ve have to learn to scoop a lot extra if you want to get some real tea into your drink. At any rate, the final two scoops were made up of the tea that had settled to the bottom, and I brewed it into my extra large TARDIS mug. So this last one ended up being more tea and less flavour (as opposed to my earlier cups which were a thick chocolate-coconut, but a bit watery without the good tea base).
Anyways, it’s a good mix of coconut and chocolate, and almost makes me think of white chocolate (but it’s not nearly sweet enough for that). It’s also got a good nuttyness to it—like hazelnut, except that I just brought up the ingredients list and realized there were none in here. It must be a mix of the pecans and other flavours that are making me think of hazelnuts. It actually tastes fuller because I managed to get a good bit of tea into this cup. Does remind me of macaroons (though honestly my main memory is the crunch). It’s a comforting cup.
In conclusion, I should start shaking my Davidstea bags before each use.