TAPAS said

New to Tea ! Love Dessert Teas!

Hey!
My sister has been obsessed with tea for a while, and recently just got my mother hooked on the stuff. I’ve always passed on a cup when offered until recently, and I loved it! I’ve taken a particular liking to sweet dessert teas. I plan on getting some over the weekend, and have seen a dessert tea set at David’s Tea recently. Anyone recommend any good ones? I’m into the chocolate, almond, caramel, etc type of stuff.

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Specifically from DAVIDsTEA, I really like these ones as dessert teas:

- Salted Caramel (Black)
- Love Tea #7 (Black)
- Buttered Rum (Black)
- Gold Rush (White)

Salted Caramel doesn’t actually taste too salty to me, but it does have a nice deeper kind of caramel taste, and is nice with a little milk too. Love Tea #7 is a lighter sort of chocolate tea with strawberry and rose and just feels really decadent – it’s nice straight or with milk, I find. Buttered Rum is really creamy and has some sweeter coconut to it along with a nice kind of butterscotch type of taste. I like this one straight, as a latte or infused into hot chocolate. And Gold Rush tastes like liquid Werther’s caramel to me. It’s lighter than the black teas, and more gentle/delicate but still packs quite the flavour profile.

From other companies, I like Della Terra’s Cinnamon Bun for a different type of sweet try (more pastry like, though to me it’s Spice Cake with Cream Cheese icing) and lately I’m liking Butiki’s Maple Pecan Oolong for a gentle and delicate sweet treat that still satisfies sugar cravings.

Hopefully that’s kind of helpful?

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Katiek said

My favorite dessert teas are Harney and Son’s Chocolate, lots of different ones from Della Terra

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Eight Candles from Della Terra is probably my favorite dessert tea at the moment. The Peppermint Bark one is good too, if you have a liking for chocolate + peppermint sweets.

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Della Terra has some really good dessert teas. I rather like the Carrot Cake (rooibos).

VariaTEA said

OMG I am in love with their Carrot Cake – you can actually taste the cream cheese frosting!!

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I recommend all of Della Terra, just in case you might find something to your fancy. I specifically like Minty Cow (also Shamrocks and Shenanigans, though they have yet to put it back on the site), Chocolate Chai Pu-erh, and Peppermint Bark. Any other teas with chocolate or caramel I have to yet try myself.

http://www.dellaterrateas.com/

It’s actually on the site right now as “Wintermint”, I believe. With snowflake sprinkles.

OK. I can’t seem to keep track of the changing titles ^^;

Yeah, the chocolate/ mint ones seem to change titles every season.

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Della Terra’s Pineapple Upside Down Cake! Mmmm, liquid yellow cake batter flavor!
Eight Candles is also really good with caramel and marshmallow flavor!

Of course, cannot forget Butiki Teas – Caramel Vanilla Assam is sooo tasty!

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ifjuly said

In general, I recommend Della Terra as a good starting point for dessert-flavored black teas and tisanes (I remember liking Oatmeal Raisin Cookie, Lemon Chiffon, Blueberry Crumble, and Pineapple Upside Down Cake which doesn’t taste of pineapple at all but is very cake-y) because they have so many choices, they offer sample packs where you can choose a bunch to try when you’re starting out, and they’re relatively affordable. Joy’s Teaspoon has some good ones too (Cinnamon Roll, Spicy Pear, Lemon Zest) and also offers pick-your-own sampler packs. 52teas has lots of very unusual flavors you won’t find elsewhere and is pretty popular here (I find their teas very hit or miss personally, but lots of people are ardent fans…Strawberry Pie Honeybush is my current favorite) and one nice thing about them is the shipping is “free”/included in the price of each tea, so you can can try when one comes up that suits your fancy instead of waiting to place a bulk order. American Tea Room has a ton of nice options but can be on the pricey side (but they offer big sales, like 20% off coupon codes or bonus tea, pretty much every other week it seems); Brioche is a Steepster favorite (the smell is amazing). (And Steap Shoppe has a tea with similar sticky-yeasted-pastry notes as Brioche called Cinnamon Swirl Bread.) Harney and Sons has some nice ones too—Florence (nutella), Boston (cranberry and almond), Fruits d’Alsace (best coldsteeped though). Their Hot Cinnamon Spice is popular too but I haven’t tried it yet. For subtle but dead-on accurate evocation of true flavor, Butiki is awesome (I’m partial to Peppermint Patty, Mango Lassi, Cantaloupe and Cream, Champagne and Rose Cream, Pumpkin Milkshake, Ruby Pie, Peach HoppiTea, Three Friends Orange, Chocolate, and Marshmallow, With Open Eyes which has a green base and notes of strawberry preserves toffee and ginger, Flowery Pineapple Oolong, Irish Cream Cheesecake which I think works best as a morning treat, and the sadly discontinued but possibly soon-to-be-revamped Birthday Cake). Lupicia also has some very nice flavored teas too (Momo Oolong Supergrade is my favorite peach tea, they’ve got some nice chestnut teas, grape teas, etc.).

And they’re not marketed as dessert flavored teas per se, but I’m a big sucker for the creamy rich oolongs—Milk Oolongs (whether flavored or natural Jin Xuan, I don’t care if I like the taste) and Coconut Oolongs (I like Zen Tea’s, Golden Moon’s, and American Tea Room’s. Yum. Similarly unorthodox but I shamelessly love fresh fruity flavored green teas, like a sunny bowl of fruit salad to me. My favorites are Joy’s Teaspoon’s Mahalo, Den’s Tea Pineapple Sencha, and American Tea Room’s Nirvana.

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