Sugar Cookie Sleigh Ride

To me, this is sickeningly sweet.

I wanted to like it, but it didn’t really taste at all like a sugar cookie to me. The taste was very faint and, even with a little sugar added, it didn’t really get much better. Didn’t finish my cup; sadly not one I’ll drink again.

Lexa took this one from the box and was so excited by the scent…but I couldn’t smell anything! Odd.

I steeped it up and it smelled exactly like a sugar cookie. Exactly!

Sadly, there was essentially no actual flavour. But, Lexa said it tasted like a liquid sugar cookie to her! How bizarre! More for her to enjoy!

It’s okay with a bit of milk, but still tastes a bit like Play Doh. It’s not very palatable to drink straight.

As much as I wanted to like this one, the sugar cookie flavour was lacking. Not only that, but the mouthfeel was so thin, with not much of a finish to savour. Making this herbal into a latte is what saved it for me. Milk and some sugar helped to better solidify the idea of sugar cookies in my mind. Shortbread even. Latte will definitely be my go-to method of preparation going forward with my remaining handful of tea sachets.

Despite not loving this blend, it’s the best representation I’ve tasted of sugar cookies (in tea form) thus far.

I did not buy this tea for the flavour; I bought it for the milk thistle (which has a lot of health benefits)

When I opened this, it smelled like cardboard or play-do? However, once steeped, it does not taste that bad! It tastes like a sugar cookie (but with no sweetness). I enjoyed this one, and I look forward to repurchasing it solely because of the milk thistle.

However, if this tea had no milk thistle in it, and this was just based on taste, I would not repurchase it.

I can smell the sugar cookie in the scent. But I taste … grass.

I leave the bags in as recommended in other tasting notes and it just gets grassier. It tastes as if I’ve left my mouth open while mowing the lawn.

My preparation included no additives. No milk. No cream. No sweetener. Just it as is.

Is my tongue broken?

Holiday Tea-son! This came in the Discovery Teabox, and though I’ve seen this one reviewed many times, I actually have never tried this one. It fits my monthly theme nicely, so why not finally try it out? Thanks so much to Skysamurai for organizing and all participants of the box!

The teabag smells very buttery and sweet. The steeped tea is slightly buttery, with some subtle nutty and vanilla notes. There is a very slight lemon creme note toward the end of the sip. It really does remind me of a sweet sugar cookie with a lemon glaze topping, and it is quite nice. The flavor is perhaps a little weaker than I prefer for my herbals, and I did like it better when I added a few more teabags to my teapot. But this is certainly a bagged tea I wouldn’t mind keeping around, I can see why so many people sing its praises. It is quite tasty, and I do find these sweet, desserty herbals really nice before bed.

I recently opened the box of this I’ve been saving for the holidays, and I’ve already had several bags. The flavor is so buttery and delicious. It’s like an actual sugar cookie. I’m going to have to order some more boxes of this. I use two bags for 18 oz of liquid, and I add sugar, milk, and vanilla. It’s one of my very favorite teas. I’m sorry it gets so many negative reviews. It really does need those additions to make it great, but I don’t hold that against it because it brings the buttery flavor that I rarely see in a tea.

After a Celestial Seasonings hiatus of YEARS, I grabbed a box of this at the store because I need to bump up my tisane stock a bit and I remembered this had been weirdly popular on Steepster. It is pretty good, though the barley is a bit of an odd flavor in the mix. It does kind of taste like sugar cookies? I wish the orange peel came through more because I always used to put orange peel in my cookies and I miss it.