Candy Cane Crush

Tea type
Black Food Herbal Blend
Ingredients
Black Tea, Peppermint Candy, White Chocolate
Flavors
Candy, Candy Cane, Creamy, Mint, Sugar, Malt, Nutty, Vanilla, Butter, Peppermint, Smooth, Sweet, White Chocolate, Chocolate, Cream, Milk, Tea, Bitter, Sweat
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Bulk, Loose Leaf, Sachet
Caffeine
Medium
Certification
Not available
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 15 sec 7 g 28 oz / 816 ml

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How it tastes
Rich and mega creamy, with a sweet white chocolate flavour and an icy-cool peppermint finish

A minty wonderland in a cup. This rich and decadent peppermint black tea is strewn with creamy white chocolate drops, crushed candy cane pieces and tons of cute little snowflake sprinkles. Perfectly sweetened with an icy-cool finish, it’s the ultimate winter indulgence. Add it to your next mug of holiday eggnog for a festive twist.

What makes it great
• Made with a premium black tea base certified by Elephant Approved® – a non-profit organization that aims to help reduce Human Elephant Conflict in tea producing regions around the world.
• Satisfy your sweet tooth with the ultimate holiday indulgence.
• Try it as a tea latte or add it to your next batch of holiday eggnog for a festive twist.

Ingredients
50% Elephant Approved black tea, White chocolate (sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, butter oil, soy lecithin, vanilla extract), Peppermint candy (corn syrup, sugar, peppermint oil, colour (FD&C Red 40)), Snowflake candies (sugar, rice flour, palm and palm kernel oil, corn starch, gum Arabic, cellulose gum, titanium dioxide (colour), confectioner’s glaze, carrageenan, soy lecithin, artificial flavour), Cane sugar, Peppermint, Natural (peppermint, vanilla) flavouring.

About DAVIDsTEA View company

DavidsTea is a Canadian specialty tea and tea accessory retailer based in Montreal, Quebec. It is the largest Canadian-based specialty tea boutique in the country, with its first store having opened in 2008.

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249 tasting notes

This is super cute, but the flavor isn’t anything special. It’s a nice basic black tea and you can “feel” the peppermint. I didn’t really get anything from the white chocolate bits, although they clearly melted and made a cloudy tea. The scent is strongly candy cane rather than just peppermint.

Flavors: Cream, Peppermint

Preparation
200 °F / 93 °C 5 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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308 tasting notes

This is another tea that I’m happy I tried but even happier that I don’t like/love. It’s a very heavy tea, if I can even call it that, and I can’t imagine you’d get many steeps out of 50g/2oz. There’s a lot of candy in the blend and very little tea. I tried to drink it hot but it wasn’t doing anything for me. I added a bit of chocolate milk and that made it more drinkable, but I won’t be finishing the bag I’ve opened. It’s basically liquid candy cane, as one would expect from a tea called Candy Cane Crush. I was hoping for a lot more black tea flavor, so I could’ve done with about 1/4 of the white chocolate chips and 1/2 of the crushed candy cane bits. I’d recommend this to those who love candy canes and sweet teas.

Flavors: Peppermint, White Chocolate

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2965 tasting notes

A pouch of this accompanied me to work today, where I am nominating it to be the next work tea.
It was really, really mild today, and, curiously, pink! I would not have guessed there was a black tea base in this, if I was blindfolded and given this.
In that case it will be a great work tea, though I do hope I can get my proportions right and release the peppermint goodness that I hope lurks within.

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123 tasting notes

This one did taste like a candy cane. There are large candy cane pieces in it. It made a tea that was not clear. Good, but I would have preferred a black tea with candy cane flavouring.

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43 tasting notes

Was excited to try this tea when it was announced and was surprised to see it as a ‘Tea of the Month’, so it would be a permanent Christmas-y tea throughout the year.

I ordered some when Santa’s Secret came back into stock and ordered about 100g of it.

It smelled alright, although not as strong in a minty flavour as Snow Day from last year. When brewed, it had a filmy coating on the top from the white chocolate. The taste wasn’t all that strong, wasn’t what I was expecting. I do like black teas, but was looking for a stronger mix of a minty taste and more of the white chocolate.

Basically, I was wanting a White Chocolate Frost kinda taste with a mix of Santa’s Secret, you can’t really get much of a taste of the peppermint or the white chocolate.

Will I get more? Not sure right now. I like SS more and mixing the two didn’t change much.

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15575 tasting notes

I think it’s actually bee a fair amount of time since I last had this tea. I did the caffeine free DT advent this past year and I didn’t steep this one up in the month of December outside of advent season, so I sort of went the whole holiday period without making what is probably one of my favourite DT holiday teas. It felt kind of weird and maybe that’s why I found myself earlier this weekend craving it so much. I steeped up a cup in the afternoon and just sort of let myself melt into the deeply minty and richly creamy notes of the steeped cup. It was just indulgent in the most relaxing sort of way!

Friendly reminder that I do not numerically rate DAVIDsTEA blends as I’m currently employed there and it would be an obvious conflict of interest. Any blends you see with numerical ratings were rated prior to my employment there. These reviews are a reflection of my personal thoughts and feelings regarding the teas, and not the company’s.

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606 tasting notes

This tea is definitely sweet from all the chocolate and candy, but it’s pretty good. I’m not sure if I like this one more than Santa’s secret or not… I like how Santa’s Secret I could sweeten to my liking, whereas this one is very sweet already…

I know this would make a good latte though. I will probably try that tomorrow. I feel like I’m kind of back and forth on this one and how I feel… haha yeah I don’t know. The peppermint is nice but it does seem to need a bit more black tea base or something to it. I do feel like it is missing something? I’m really not sure.

Michelle

I heard some people add English Breakfast to it and its better for them

TheKesser

That’s a good idea! I think I’ll do that.

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46 tasting notes

This was admittedly quite the impulse buy, I tried it in-store today and the sample was… quite watery but the pre-packed tin had such a nice design that I thought “Why not?”. I’m glad that I did pick it up because apparently that put me over the $35 mark and I got a free collectible ornament, so that was a nice surprise.

This tea definitely smells just like a candy cane, the smell is so strong that I don’t get even small notes from the other ingredients in it. When steeped, it turns a surprisingly murky reddish color, which I think is from the white chocolate chips and candy cane pieces. Even straight, this tea is pretty good, it’s very smooth and minty. It gets even better with a touch of milk and sugar though, in my opinion it’s the best seasonal tea that David’s has for winter, based on the current collection.

Overall, I think this is going to be a holiday staple for me and I pray that they bring it back in the coming years as well, because I already can’t get enough of this.

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 4 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 8 OZ / 236 ML

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I have to say that it was quite watery. There is a hint of the candy cane peppermint but that is nowhere near as good as having a true peppermint leaf. Santa’s Secret is much better. I would even say the herbal Snow Day is also a better peppermint holiday tea.

Preparation
185 °F / 85 °C 4 min, 0 sec 3 tsp 16 OZ / 473 ML

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30 tasting notes

This is the nicest Christmassy tea I’ve had from David’s so far over a few years being a customer. It is very nice and minty, you definitely taste the candy cane, and the white chocolate bits are a great pairing. It tastes like if you’ve ever had candy cane white hot chocolate, only of course a tea version, instead of the sweet and calorific hot chocolate version. Great for if you’re craving that but want a healthier treat. And if you add some cream and sweetener to this tea it actually gets even better! I suppose the only downside is this really is a seasonal flavor, I can’t imagine drinking it much at all except around Christmas but I’d certainly buy it again next year if they bring it back for Christmas again.

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