This month, I tried Tonia's Birthday Cake black tea by Steeped Tea, a local direct-selling tea company that has expanded across Canada and the US. Steeped Tea's Founder and President, Tonia, is also a January baby.
Tonia's Birthday Cake tea is supposed to taste like black forest cake. The label listed the following ingredients: black tea, sour cherry, cocoa bean bits, cocoa bean peels, almonds, rose blossom leaves, strawberry, safflower, natural flavors.
I stepped the tea for the recommended 3-minute time in my Royal Albert's polka blue tea for one set.
The breakfast cup is about twice the size of a standard teacup so fewer refills are required!
Tonia's Birthday Cake tea smelled wonderful.
My sweet tooth enjoyed the combined chocolate and fruit flavours in this dessert tea.
I also tasted a slight astringency so next time I'll try it with some milk.
Do you drink dessert teas?
A belated Happy Birthday to you, Margie! You have the prettiest tea for one set! I love the polka dots! The tea sounds lovely and I do enjoy a dessert tea now and then. Have a wonderful week.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful porcelain,so dainty and romantic!Hugs!
ReplyDeleteThis must have the excellent aroma.
ReplyDeleteThat’s an adorable tea set for one. Some dessert teas are too sweet for me. I do like some of the Steeped Teas, especially peppermint. Unfortunately they stopped carrying a lot of the teas I limed, spearmint, winter mint and a few more.
ReplyDeleteOMG Such a lovely little tea set... perfect for a snowy day...Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI love these type of dessert teas. I'm going to have to check out their site. That is a beautiful tea for one set and I like that the cup is bigger! That's my one complaint about pretty tea cups -- too small and dainty haha! My tea steeper makes just the right amount for a coffee mug so that's what I use.
ReplyDeleteOh I bet it did taste divine. I am drinking a cup of flavored coffee at the moment but I see a tea break in the works this afternoon. I love the pretty tea cups. I have several that are small and seem to take quite a few refills for me to get my full. But, I still love them all the same. Happy Day to you dear Margie. Hugs and blessings, Cindy
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute name for tea and I know how fun these "personality flavored teas" are! That is such a lovely tea for one too! Thanks for sharing Margie.
ReplyDeleteYou know me, Margie, and I LOVE dessert teas! I also enjoy milk in my tea most of the time. Your teaset for one is just so cute! I like the oversized cup for breakfast time. The birthday cake tea flavor sounds perfect!
ReplyDeleteMargie, I'm not fond of flavored teas, except Earl Grey, but I love your tea-for-one set! Such a pretty pattern.
ReplyDeleteMargie, That is a lovely shade of blue. I have not seen a tea for one in English china. Thanks for sharing. Sylvia D.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun tea! Black Forest cake is not my fave, but I do like vanilla, chocolate or caramel teas. Love your teafor one. So cute! Thanks for linking to Tuesday Cuppa Tea
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Sounds crazy, but I can almost smell the sweetness from this tea through the screen. I'm not a big dessert eater, but I enjoy certain dessert teas before bedtime. This one looks wonderful, especially served in your lovely tea for one set. What a pretty shade of blue.
ReplyDeleteI'll have to check out Steeped Tea.
I'm also theaholic! But mostly because I have a very ... very large collection of tea boxes from all over the world- I think it will be over 1500!
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