Snickerdoodle

I’m officially moved! However, unpacking has been slow, so I am still without my teas. I went to downtown Palo Alto today and noticed a new DAVIDsTEA there, so I popped in to look at the fall teaware. I’m not usually a big fan of the teas there, but while I was browsing, the lady behind the counter offered me a sample of this tea. The good thing is that even though it has a rooibos base (which I hate), I could barely taste the rooibos because of the cinnamon and other flavoring. However, the bad news is that while the cinnamon part was tasty, it did also feel a little greasy and I felt like it needed a stronger base tea. I wouldn’t buy this for myself, but it was nice to try out!

I like this tea – I don’t really feel that it tastes just like a Snickerdoodle cookie but you definitely get lots of cinnamon flavor. Not too overpowering to me, but enough that I find this tea is one of the most strong, flavorful ones I’ve ever had. Not sure if I’ll be repurchasing but will definitely enjoy what I’ve got.

So I had a stressful Saturday and was off to David’s Tea in Menlo Park(New Jersey’s first David’s). I asked the young lady what she thought of the fall teas and she listed the teas starting with the ones she loved and ending with the ones she thought were well just okay which was Snickerdoodle. The young lady said it was almost like butterscotch and no cookie taste. I being a sucker especially curious about anything butterscotch had to try it anyway and well the young lady at the counter was 85% right. It was too much cinnamon like that red hot candy cinnamon taste that seems to be all too common with the Teavana Chais. I did pick up very subtle butterscotch tones but niot much at all. I tried it with and without milk and even threw some grated cinnamon on top and I was still disgusted by this tea. Davids should spike it up with the cinnamon add some beetrot for a reddish color and they could resell it as Mad about the RedHots or something along those lines. This sadly it didn’t remind me of anything Snickerdoodle which is my favorite cookie.

Well…kinda disappointed with this one too. :/
Maybe I just got a crap load of cinnamon in the tsp I used, but this tea turned out wayyy strong. Mainly tasting cinnamon with this. It’s pretty buttery and a bit bready though, besides the cinnamon….but just not enough to make me really love it. Eh, I don’t know. These fall teas aren’t doing it for me just yet.
It’s not bad, but not a big fan either…
to the sell list it goes I guess. xD And if no one else wants it, then I will probably drink it down at some point. It’s not bad, but just…not my thing I suppose.

I bought 50g to try out… boy, it was such a let down at first. I love sweet things, and this tea was far too sweet for me. But then I got experimenting…

There is a trick with this tea… I’d highly recommend steeping it in a tea bag. That way, a lot of the spices don’t escape into the cup and make it annoyingly spicy (or annoyingly sweet for that matter).

It also makes a fantastic latte. No need to add additional sweeteners.

Overall, not my fave. Certainly not a bad little tea though.

Sipdown (113)!

I could have made two smaller cups with what was left most likely, but instead I just dumped this into one cup to finish it off and hoped for the best. No idea exactly how much leaf I used, to be perfectly honest.

Man. Man, oh man. Maybe I should have split it…

I wanted more butterscotch flavour from this one; and I got it. All the butterscotch stuff must have really made it to the bottom of the bag, because this was so intensely, over the top sweet. I would call it “pure sugary butterscotch” except some cinnamon was actually present in the lingering aftertaste. But otherwise; it was all drowned out. No present base, at all. The butterscotch was actually so concentrated it almost sort of took on an alcoholic quality; it severely drew Comparison to butterscotch Schnapps for me.

At first I really liked it, but then it became too much too quickly where as my previous cups were so much more tame and seemed to be lacking. If only I could have struck a happy medium between the two.

I can’t believe I’m saying it; but maybe this is a fall tea I will restock if only to play with it more and see if I can strike a balance now that I know this can produce such polarizing flavours.

oh man is this stuff sweet!! And yet some how the nutritional value label on the back of the packet tells me there is only 15 calories per serve… ummm… ok … how big is a serve? 1/4 cup?? Ok, so I just looked it up, apparently the culprit is the monk fruit which is 300 times sweeter than sugar (what the #$@! is a monk fruit?!?!?!?!) Anyhoo this tea is super sweet but still pretty tasty, there is a fair amount of cinnamon however its not overpowering (I don’t like cinnamon all that much) and there is a slight cakey cookie taste. Its not something I would usually gravitate towards but since it tastes so sweet and has no caffeine it might become a after dinner treat, at least until the bag is gone. Now I must go google monk fruit…

I got 50 grams of this to try out while we in David’s Tea last week. I was warned that it could be cloyingly sweet and to approach steeping it with caution, so I tossed it into more tepid water and only steeped for a minute and a half. I am a fan of cinnamon but not in huge quantities. I do, however, have a weakness for Snickerdoodles. The steeped brew was very sweet, I am glad I didn’t toss in sugar, but it was still enjoyable. I am not sure how often I would drink this, but once in a while I could see it being a nice, indulgent treat. I do get the cookie notes and there is almost no discernible rooibos flavour to the tea. Another tea that was not my favourite, but I am sure we will get through the fifty grams we have in the house.

Sometimes I think I’m such a DT fan girl! The funny thing is I’m only in love with a couple of their teas. I think it’s the fact that they release things seasonally, so there’s always something new to try, and I love their teaware!

So, of course I ran out to check out the fall line on Wednesday during my lunch break. I was good, and stuck to my plan. I picked up only a half ounce of this tea and maple sugar, a tin of pumpkin chai, and the multicolor leaves Nordic mug. I had a hard time deciding on the mug, because the raccoon one was really cute, but I’m really happy with the leaves one…very classy and pretty. Plus, there are leaves printed on the inside!

I smelled the dry leaf of this tea from the samples they put out. My coworker immediately said it smelled oddly of cheese, and I agreed with her, but chocked it up to a weird sample and still bought some to try. I’m glad I did, because this is really nice. You really can’t taste any rooibos. It’s pretty much a cinnamon tea, but more of a warm pastry cinnamon than a hot cinnamon. I think I was able to convince myself that it tasted a bit buttery, which melds with the name, but I might just be easily persuaded! It is a bit on the thin side though, unfortunately. Overall, it doesn’t knock my socks off, but I wouldn’t mind more of this one.

Just tooooo sweeeeeeet. Fairly decent cinnamon flavour, no rooibos flavour at all. Seems somewhat artificial.