Red Velvet Cake

So I actually had tried this before but it was a gift for a friend since she’s the biggest red velvet cake lover in the world.

I went on a small tea shop to DT’s and decided to pick up 15 grams of my very own.

It smells like red velvet cake if it wasn’t over-sweetened and too rich as it usually is.I smell chocolate semi-sweet and white..mixed perfectly.

Once steeped smells richer and deeper notes of chocolate come though and I want my whole life to smell like this.

It’s a denser tea kind of like glitter and gold but sadly without the shimmer.( No points off though!)

This is a really comfy tea..it’s more pastry like and then descends into this gentle sweetness that stays on the tongue.Basically like a blanket placed around oneself it feels like THAT kind of a tea.

It’s really really nice and soothing..I see greatness in an icing as well.Not sure if this will be a staple of my collection but it’s wonderful right now.

as always only used 1tsp and steeped the lowest time recommended.

I’m baaaaacck

This tea packs a POWERFUL aroma punch. When I wandered back into the kitchen after steeping, it smelled like I’d lit a scented candle. This smells like how I wanted Read My Lips to taste. Yum!

On sipping, I don’t think it tastes anywhere near as strong as it smells, but it seems to turn out like Birthday Cake with less of that sugary-artifical maple flavour and a little more vanilla. And that’s fine, ‘cause I’m down to my last few grams of Birthday Cake, and I like these dessert teas for early evening sippin’. There’s only so many ways to make a ‘cake’ flavoured tea, after all.

Such a sweet tasting tea! I’m kind of a sucker for ones like this (I loved Ice Cream Cake before it was discontinued). I do have to add some sort of sweetener and milk to it though, otherwise it really doesn’t taste like much to me.

This is a really nice tea! I find the smell to be a tad on the strong side, but it definitely has a more mellow taste to it. It has the perfect amount of red velvet for me! I had a little bit of film on top with the first cup, but less so with the second (I didn’t do anything differently), so I will keep experimenting!

Being a person who usually takes their tea black – or with the barest splash of milk – I find a lot of dessert teas to be overwhelming and saccharine-sweet. This one certainly felt that way. The cup of tea has a sweet sort of cakey smell to it. It really does taste like red velvet cake with just a bit of sugar; with milk, it tastes a bit more like tea. Very sweet. No bitterness at all. One thing that sort of turned me off of it is the waxy, oily residue from the sprinkles (I think?) that were in the loose tea mix. Sprinkles give it such a nice flavour, but the wax… um… wasn’t the most appetizing. Warm thank-yous to Andrea for giving me a bit to try— I probably won’t go back for more, though. Maybe I’ve just been spoiled by all the other awesome teas I’ve tried around here?

I am pleasantly surprised at how well this one turned out! This one is similar to birthday cake. I liked birthday cake as a tea but I’m not a huge fan of it’s rooibos base.

When tasted straight, it’s not too strong and not bland either, you can really smell the cakey-ness to it. I guess you could say it smells like red velvet. I’m just a sucker for cake scented stuff so this one is good in my books!

Throw in some milk/sweetener and I got myself a yummy cake fix without the extra calories ;)

It’s not as good as I thought it would be. The smell of the dry leaf is very similar to that of Birthday Cake, which I didn’t like because it was rooibos, but I thought with a black base it would be amazing. It is actually quite nice, but not my favorite. I get a lot of sweetness and a bit of cake and chocolate, but the black base is too strong for my taste. I’ve come to realize that I’m always a bit disapointed with teas that have chocolate in them. Maybe I expect too much. I would be very interested in trying some from another company though because I’ve only had some chocolate teas from David’s Tea so maybe I’m just not a big fan of their chocolate flavouring. We’ll see!

This tea is definitely SWEET, do not add any sweetener to it. It does taste like cake batter…and I like it and I was surprised that I liked it as much as I did. It is such a Davids’ Tea and I am not a huge fan of super flavored teas, I prefer the more singular teas, but this one is fun and it is pretty to look at.

Backlog.

This tea jumped out at me when I first discovered the DAVIDsTEA website. I was looking for something sweet that would take the place of dessert and voila! Red Velvet Cake. I picked a sample up when I visited a DAVIDsTEA store a month later.

Dry, this tea smells yummy and sweet — almost sickeningly so. Steeped, however…

It’s thin, very bland and in no way a substitute for its namesake. Really disappointed by this one.

Very good. Sweet. I did add a packet of Splenda, which made it a bit too sweet. Next time I will add just barely a sprinkle if any at all. I don’t know if I’d say “red velvet cake” exactly, but there is a clear maple flavor. It was good. It’s a nice treat. I did top this with just a bit of whipped cream, which melted down into the tea. Yummy!