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This is another tea that I purchased from Tea-Sipper’s stash sale.

The dryleaf has an assortment of stuff in it including a ton of cocoa shells.
It brews up a lovely reddish pink color due to the beetroot. Upon first taste It reminds me almost exactly of Spice & Tea Exchange’s Black Chocolate tea. So I compared ingredients and while this tea has many the Black Chocolate tea only has black tea and chocolate flavoring. They both use Sri Lanka Black Tea as the base though and of course are chocolate teas.

I can see a lot of people really liking this.
This tastes just like chocolate cake without the frosting. I always am disappointed when teas are named Red Velvet but lack the cream cheese aspect. Even a bit of raspberry flavor would be nice to give you some aspect of the red velvet part since some recipes have raspberry included. The best part of red velvet to me is the frosting. So until I find a red velvet tea with the cream cheese aspect I don’t need to buy more for my cupboard.

This year is going by so fast! I ordered this tea sample during their Black Friday sale and it’s already May!

So Apparently I am just terrible at brewing white teas because I can’t seem to get them to my liking most of the time. I think what went wrong with this one was the fact that the tea strainer I’m using is made for another cup but I used it with my preferred mug which is quite tall. So I think the water doesn’t always reach the strainer as much as it should or something…. The age could have also slightly affected it. The only white tea that I haven’t seemed to mess up is AQ2T’s Banana Split one which I loved. Of course I can’t remember what cup I used for it or what strainer though.

I’ve had this tea several times before but haven’t reviewed it. This was a free sample from my DT order.

I prepared this hot with some unsweetened vanilla almond milk.
This tea is quite similar to TJ’s Winter Wake Up tea except even sweeter and it’s caffeine free.
This tea is SO Sweet and I like really sweet teas but it’s like drinking Cinnamon syrup straight. The chai aspect of this tea isn’t there at all. The apple in the tea isn’t there at all either. I think the cinnamon flavoring they used is what ruins it.I love cinnamon and put tons of the spice itself on things, but syrupy cinnamon flavors aren’t ones I reach for and can only tolerate occasionally.
This tea would probably be amazing as a milkshake with some fresh granny smith apples and some vanilla bean ice cream or frozen yogurt. Since it’s already so sweet you wouldn’t have to add much ice cream. It definitely tastes like a simple syrup just lacking the thickness of the syrup.