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Dessert in a cup! I opted to make it into a tea latte this morning with a swirl of chocolate sauce on top. Holy yum! Seriously the toasted mate is SO much better with stronger flavors of hazelnut and chocolate added to mellow it out. So, so good!

I had a second eye surgery on Wednesday of last week. Well, last night was the first night I wanted to make myself something fancy with tea. So I whipped up a tea latte with this tea. I got a lot of great cheesecake flavor with this method and pumpkin too! Will def. try again!

On it’s own this is pretty gross. I think I’ll have to try it mixed with some vanilla comoro or a tea like that to get past the taste of this one. Which I can’t even figure out what I’m tasting.

Hands down my favorite fandom blend from Cara! It doesn’t hurt that Mycroft Holmes is my favorite of the BBC reboot. Seriously hello cake in a cup(no really)! Sweet with hints of chai spice. Perfect with milk and sugar. I prefer this one at breakfast time.

A little in your face like Donovan, but deep down you know she’s just a little bit sweet on the boys….ok maybe not! Lovely chocolate chai flavor in this tea. I also love that the chocolate isn’t lost to the chai spices in the tea. I like this one as a mid-morning pick me up.

Do you like cinnamon and chai spices? Well, belly up to the tea kettle and prepare for a great cuppa! I love all the spice going on in this blend. Everything just works really well even though you don’t think it should. I like adding in a little vanilla sugar and light cream or to turn it into a tea latte.

The weird thing about this tea is that it is a White Cab…last I checked Cab Sav is a red wine. That being said the tea is pretty good. It isn’t something I would drink every day. But it is something different that I wouldn’t mind trying out now and again or sharing with friends. The jasmine and rose work very well together and give off a very sweet flavor.

It’s been a LONG time since my last review here. But I’m baaaack…did you miss me?. Changed the name as The PurrfectCup blog no longer lives. But my regular blog, Gal in the Grey Hat, does. And sometimes I post reviews there. But I’d like to return to doing that here. Anyway…to the review:

This tea (prior to steeping) smells devious. It is totally up to something. Once steeped it smells mostly of the earthy pu erh…nothing at all like Moriarty…but wait for the sucker punch of surprise of the strawberry, cream, candy cane, and peppermint. All of these flavors work so well together even though they hit you at different time in each sip! Truly one I need to have around in the cabinet!

My new favorite Mycroft tea. At first I wasn’t sure the flavors of apricot, vanilla, and hazelnut would go together. I was happy to find I was very wrong and it is indeed very good. I drink far too much of it for the good of my wallet. Which reminds me it’s time to re-order

I’ve gotten into a nasty habit at work…drinking coffee. I know, bad, bad. But I’ve been trying to kick that by bringing some of my favorite teas to work and to make a thermos full of something before I leave in the morning. For that I’ve tried pu-erh’s because they are usually super strong like coffee.

The other day I noticed that my local tea room just started carrying this blend. I knew I had to get my paws on some ASAP. So I ordered 4oz. I know you might be thinking this is a bit much for a tea I’ve never tried before. But I’ve only ever had one tea I bought in a large amount from The Whistling Kettle that I didn’t like. My order arrived yesterday and I’m just digging in today.

The dry leaves smell like coffee with hints of chocolate and caramel. Not crummy coffee either, like top notch coffee that might be served in some swanky cafe. The steeped leaf smells more like the earthiness I’ve come to expect from a pu-erh tea. The mocha and caramel notes come out and mix really well with one another in this tea. I think I found a nice way to get a little coffee and yet not feel guilty for not having tea!