Coffee Cake

My absolute all time favorite tea!

some sweetness, some coffee, mostly mild

Thanks M Mack for sending a sample of this along with the other teas! I always love little samples of teas I haven’t tried. Even with two teaspoons of this, the black tea is very weak. I’m not sure what coffee cake should taste like but there is a slightly sweet fruity flavor to this. Does coffee cake even have fruit or it that fruit cake? It kind of reminds me of Della Terra’s Pineapple Upside Down Cake. Though the Upside Down was much more delicious (even though Della Terra’s black teas were always pretty weak too). So another mediocre tea from David’s but I wasn’t expecting much anyway. I appreciate trying it though.

I did not expect to like this tea but I have seriously enjoyed it. It kind of tastes like maple brown sugar oatmeal with a bit of fruitiness. It’s pleasant and not a bad astringency or after taste like David’s Teas sometimes get. I hope they bring it back this year because I would love to buy a full tin of this tea.

When I ran out of jumpy monkey from (2014) my Advent Calendar, I moved onto coffee cake. It smells like caramel and coffee cake, and it was wonderful with milk. I found this black tea to be comforting and I was grateful to have asked for this as a sample for all of my Christmas orders.

When I finished the sample, I went ahead and got another 100g. Although I do see bits of pineapple in it, I can’t taste it in the actual tea. I suspect that it may be because it has been candied within an inch of its life, and melted during the steep.

(DavidsTea 94)

Not so enthralled with this one anymore. I like it, but there’s something a bit flat about it despite the rich, cakey aroma and flavour. I’m not entirely sure what. I imagine it would be great as a latte/with milk though; perhaps I’ll remember that when I have it again.

I really liked this and the smell was lovely, the taste lightly sweet. A great pick-me-up after lunch at work.

This tea doesn’t take well to being oversteeped, it gets very bitter and chemically pretty fast. So I steep it near-boiling for 4 minutes exactly, and it comes out pretty nice. Not mind-blowing, but it tastes about how it smells when steeped under those conditions. To me, it smells and tastes like maple syrup flavored cake. I don’t get much in the way of pineapple, but I get a bit of cherry & I get a lot of sweetness and a hint of malty black tea.

I like it either black or with a little splash of milk – when I’ve tried to make this as a latte it gets pretty overpowered by the milk – unless you oversteep it, but then it’s kind of bitter and unpleasant anyway. I wouldn’t bother repurchasing this one as I’ve got quite a few teabags of it, but it’s quite nice. I’d recommend trying it.

Just a nice black tea. I over-steeped it the first time so it was too bitter to get any of the fruit flavours. Oops! But the second time I got it just right and enjoyed it a lot. I like black tea with milk and it helped with getting the cake-like flavours to come out.

Hah, once again my taste buds are nothing like everyone else’s! I really loved this one. There is something just warm and comforting about this one – the single strongest flavor impression for me is brioche. Maybe there’s a bit of a butter taste, and a touch of vanilla, but not spices or anything. There is a fruity hint as well, but it doesn’t read strong and overpowering. There is a faint coffee taste/aftertaste, but it was very faint – I think I only taste it because I don’t like coffee. I was fine with the hint of it in this tea, though. Seriously, this tea was like drinking a hug for me today. (Yes, overly saccharine description, but sorry, it fits for me!) Is it the finest tea ever? No, but I still loved it.

eta – I did not get any maple flavor from it as I see some others have, which I would notice as I don’t care for maple.