Coconut Cream Pie

I love coconut so of course I was suckered in to buying this one. It is a little too sweet for me. Why does DAVIDsTEA need to add so much sweetener to their teas lately? If I want it sweeter, I will add my own, thank you very much :/

It is a bit creamy due to the white chocolate perhaps and I see where they are going with the pie…the buttery oolong…but it’s just not quite there.

I much prefer the Chocolate Macaroon or whatever it’s called over this one.

I liked this a lot more than the Buttered Rum. Tastes very buttery, very coconutty — a subtler experience than the Buttered Rum was. My only grievance is that I wish the white chocolate was a more prominent taste, but that certainly doesn’t detract from how much I enjoyed it.

Im a fan! I havent really loved a coconut tea from Davids Tea since the long discontinued Pina Colada (and I’ve tried almost all of them!) But this one surprised me by how much I immediately liked it. Im surprised so many people have reviewed it as being similar to Coconut Oolong because to me they are quite different. Coconut Oolong was blown out of the water by this one. In comparison, I notice CO has a much nuttier flavor, taking away from the coconut. CCP is lovely, the white chocolate sweetens up the coconut and gives it the warm creamy taste that a lot of other coconut tea attempts have failed at. I wish it was a smidge less ‘toasted coconut’ flavor, but that minor detail hasn’t stopped me enjoying it.

I got this hoping it would taste totally different (though to be fair, it does taste a bit like coconut cream pie.)

Impressively, I can taste the oolong base and it doesn’t bother me. Usually I don’t care for oolongs but I might keep this in my collection rather than trading it off. The coconut it about as strong as the flavor in Adagio’s Coconut, but there’s some creamier notes (the white chocolate chips?) overall it’s a bit sweet and the oolong helps counter that a bit. I don’t taste any graham cracker or crust flavors which is really good, imo, I think that might take away from the creamy coconut flavor.

This is disappointingly one note. It’s very coconut. No cream, no pie crust. Just coconut. Not bad but if I wanted coconut, I’d drink Coconut Oolong.

Holy Scheiße, this is sweet. Everyone knows how I love my coconut but the sweetness is simply over the top here. Coconut is already naturally sweet, so the addition of cane sugar—especially considering that there are also white chocolate chips in this—is so unnecessary. It stops tasting like coconut after a while and just tastes like sugared milk. Actually, I added a touch of cream to this and that is all this tastes like.

I was hoping this could be a reasonable substitution for their lemongrass-less Coconut Oolong that they offered a couple springs ago, but no dice. I’m still baffled why DAVIDsTEA would bring that back, add a truckload of lemongrass to it, but keep the same name. Can you please just bring back the original?

This kind of reminds me of Chocolate Macaroon but on sugar ‘roids. I wanted to write sugaroids but apparently those are Polaroids nuked in the microwave with sugar and water to alter the surface, so sugar ’roids will have to suffice. So yeah, this is Chocolate Macaroon’s chocolate-less, pecan-less cousin jacked up on some serious soluble carbs.

Lastly, I can hardly tell that the base is even oolong. It’s simply buried too deep underneath the sweetness. I’ll stick to Chocolate Macaroon whenever I’m in the mood for a DAVIDsTEA coconut dessert tea.

A new favourite. I’m usually conservative with my stashes, but I blasted through a 50g bag of this in a week. I can drink this any time of day as a very pleasant pick-me-up.

The dry leaves certainly smell like a pie – the crust/ baked aromas come through quite strongly. Very sweet overall.

You don’t get much of a crust flavour in the liquer. Certainly butter, but no crust. Overall it’s very nutty and smooth. For the people that aren’t big coconut fans, it doesn’t have that poopy flavour that coconut can sometimes have. Slight oil droplets on the surface from the chocolate and coconut but nothing too obnoxious.

I prepare this a little differently. I will get the kettle to a full boil and as I am waiting, I pick the white chocolate chips out of the tea and put it along with my sweetner of choice into the cup. Once the water is at a full boil, I pour a little into the cup and stir it briskly to get the chocolate and sugar well dissolved. I then fill the cup and steep the tea (in bag or strainer) with the kettle water that has had a chance to cool. While the tea is steeping I usually tug the bag up and down a couple times to break up the leaves if they clump together. That way the chocolate is fully incorporated and you get a perfect, flavourful steep.

To me, this tasted pretty much identical to Coconut Oolong. It’s not a bad thing, because that one is also delicious, but I don’t see enough difference in the taste to get any more of this when I still have nearly 50g of Coconut Oolong in my stash. Maybe I’m missing something? I prepared it the exact same way as I do with most of my oolongs (straight first, then with milk) and got the same flavour profiles.

I knew as soon as I smelled this tea that it would be delicious. It has quickly become my favourite. I can drink this all throughout the day without getting bored of it. It has a very nice coconut flavour and the white chocolate makes it have a smooth finish. Definitely one of Davidstea’s best dessert teas.

Speaking as a not huge coconut fan, this is rather lovely. I had it as a tea latte. Sweet, creamy, coconut—as one would expect. I’m not sure it screamed “pie” to me, but those flavours might’ve gotten muted due to it being a latte. I wouldn’t want to have it in my cupboard, just as I don’t see myself craving coconut cream pie that often, but I sure got through this quickly because it was just so tasty!