Birthday Cake - David's Tea

Where to buy:  David’s Tea

Description:  PARTY LIKE IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY

What’s the best thing about birthdays? It could be the presents, or spending time with loved ones, but let’s be honest. It’s all about the cake. With vanilla icing, and lots of sprinkles. And this sweet and festive rooibos blend brings the taste of birthday cake to your cup any day of the year – sprinkles and all. Best of all, not only is it low in calories, it also has all the goodness of rooibos. Talk about having your cake and eating it too.

Ingredients:  Red and green rooibos, honeybush, freeze-dried ice cream bits, sprinkles, natural and artificial flavoring 

Contains milk, eggs and soy

My Review:

My sister has a pouch of this tea in the pantry and I’ve been eying it for a while. Yesterday she made me a cup (I believe out of pity) to try.

This tea reminds me of funfetti cake mix. The multicoloured sprinkles contrast sharply with the red and green rooibos. The scent from this tea is almost sickeningly sweet and smells like vanilla icing.

The recommended brewing is 1.5 tsp. of Birthday Cake tea, water heated to 98 degrees Celsius (or 208 degrees Fahrenheit), steeped for 4-7 minutes. I brewed a normal cup with the recommended preparation and added a little milk.

When brewed, this tea has a heavy scent of vanilla, but not like vanilla extract more like vanilla ice cream (the stuff with actual vanilla beans, not the fake crap). This tea isn't overly sweet and to me tasted faintly like white cake batter and vanilla frosting. The rooibos is subtle and doesn't overpower the simple sweet taste of the other ingredients. I've heard people say that they see this tea as a toned down version of Oh Canada!, but I honestly don’t taste maple anywhere in this tea.

This is a really great tea that I enjoyed a lot.  I think it would make a great dessert tea and maybe an alternative to actual birthday cake for those health conscious adults (or kids).