Strawberry Cupcake Black Tea

Tea type
Black Fruit Herbal Blend
Ingredients
Not available
Flavors
Cake, Strawberry, Artificial, Bitter, Candy, Chocolate, Creamy, Dark Chocolate, Jam, Sweet, Astringent, Biting, Cocoa, Dark Bittersweet, Frosting, Berries
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Bulk, Loose Leaf
Caffeine
High
Certification
Kosher
Edit tea info Last updated by Cameron B.
Average preparation
Boiling 3 min, 15 sec 2 g 14 oz / 408 ml

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  • “Second tea of the day from Simpson and Vail, I may need to stop soon before a caffeine overload. A co-worker remarked on how good the kitchen smelled and accurately identified this as strawberry...” Read full tasting note
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  • “. My goodness, I am massively terrible at keeping teas straight after brewing….. Anyhow! Thanks to momo for a generous sample of this one!! This is a really delicious tea. All cupcakey, bakey...” Read full tasting note
    85
  • “I need some comfort food. It’s going to be a HELL of a day! This fits the bill. It has a strong black tea base. Followed by a strong Strawberry flavor. There’s also a dark chocolate flavor in...” Read full tasting note
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  • “SIPDOWN! So this time around? This tea is much improved. I’m not sure if it was teh ratio of goodness in this steeping or what but its much more strawberry like than the first time, though the...” Read full tasting note
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From Simpson & Vail

Do you love cupcakes? We offer 3 delicious cupcake blends: Red Velvet Cupcake, Carrot Cake Cupcake and Strawberry Cupcake.

When you sip this delectable brew the strawberry taste first hits your tastebuds followed by the rich, creamy, chocolate “cake” taste. Some of our staff like this blend with agave or sugar, but I find it’s delicious (and less caloric) as is! The aroma is as enticing as the taste – sweet, baked strawberry cupcakes. Yum! The cup leaves a lingering creamy taste of fresh fruit that makes it hard to resist another and another and another sip!

Ingredients: Indian black tea, strawberry pieces, strawberry leaf and strawberry cupcake flavoring.

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42 Tasting Notes

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Here’s Hoping TTB

This is nice! I’m not really getting the chocolate, but it has an enjoyable creamy strawberry flavor. Not a standout, but I would certainly drink it again.

Flavors: Creamy, Strawberry, Sweet

Preparation
205 °F / 96 °C 3 min, 0 sec 1 tsp 12 OZ / 354 ML

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My first Simpson & Vail order arrived! Even though I got home late, I was too excited to go to sleep without trying something, especially since I was hit by a wave of delicious smells as soon as I opened the box.

Now I understand AllanK’s warning about the huge bags. I think these are coffee bags, really? I think I’ll follow his example and start transferring these to tins, because among other things, I don’t want all these great smells to go wafting away through the paper bags.

So, first up, strawberry cupcake. My first impression while sipping this was that it actually tasted much more like chocolate, but after awhile the strawberry started coming through, and it became a chocolate-covered strawberry experience.

Which is really a pretty brilliant idea for a dessert tea. Looking forward to trying everything else in the box!

Fjellrev

Transferring is a great idea with these. Because I didn’t have enough tins at the time I ordered from S&V, the ones that remained in the bag, I swear, started tasting like the paper bags after a while.

Tamarindel

Yeah, tea just seems to absorb flavors from anything it comes in contact with. I was surprised to see paper bags — I thought they’d come in foil bags, or plastic at least. But fortunately I have so many empty tins it’s not going to be a problem: http://danamartinillustration.tumblr.com/post/127977134782/froaderick-fronkensteen

Fjellrev

Nice collection of tins! And are those your drawings? Either way, very talented. :)

Tamarindel

Thanks! Yes, those are my sketches and things. Happily, H&S sends tins at no extra charge, and I won a bunch of tea from Tealet, so I am stocked on containers. It looks like madness to my non-tea friends, but they just don’t understand how useful tins are.

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With the addition of milk along with sugar it tastes less like a cupcake and more like strawberry milk. Tasty either way, but I prefer it without milk.

Also the second steep brews up pretty much the same as the first.

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First thing I get is strawberry and then a hint of chocolate comes through. This is pretty light for a black tea. I’m not tasting much of the base, mostly just strawberry. It gets a little bitter as it cools. It is a decent tea, but not one that I will seek out.

Preparation
Boiling 3 min, 0 sec

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Another surprise in the tea swap from Marcel Duchamp! Thank you so much! This tastes basically exactly how I was thinking it would, so I obviously I love it.

Steep #1 // 10 mins after boiling (accidentally waited that long) // 3-4 min
The black tea base suits this perfectly – it’s mild enough, yet it pairs well with the flavors. First, there is an odd flavor from the strawberry leaves, but that is thankfully only at the top of the cup. There is definitely something here that makes this taste like CUPCAKE. A bit of strawberry and I thiiinnk a hint of chocolate. There should really be some more strawberry, but it might take away from the cupcake flavor. I love it – it’s perfect because I was craving a tea that was cakey today.

Steep #2 // just boiled // 4-5 min
This cup was also nice, but a little light on the flavor which was surprising since I accidentally waited 10 mins for the first steep. I love this though!

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Sorry for the absence, Steepster, I haven’t had much time between work and my social life lately. Also, I’ve been blending my own chai and drinking that most mornings, so I haven’t had much to write about.

Anyway, I got this in a trade with JustJames a while back. It’s a pretty tea. Short, dark leaves with flakes of pale strawberry leaf and pink strawberry pieces. The aroma is just gorgeous. Tempting chocolate cake scent mixed with a hint of sweet-tart fruit. It really does smell like a cupcake.

Steeped, it starts to get a less-than-realistic, Tootsie Roll sort of smell. It looks lovely in the glass pot, however. Beautiful ambery red. From the aroma, I expected chocolate to be the most prominent flavor, but actually, it’s the strawberry! It reminds me of strawberry preserves, not strawberry candy, which is nice. Also, I can actually taste the black tea base. It’s mild and Assam-like with just a touch of astringency, but no bitterness. The chocolate is most noticable at the end, but I still feel like I’m smelling it more than I’m tasting it.

While chocolate teas aren’t really my thing, this one would be nice to revisit every once in a while.

Flavors: Berries, Chocolate

Preparation
Boiling 4 min, 0 sec

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Thanks Courtney for the sample! I still have one more cup worth left after this too!

This smells amazing and incredibly aromatic; sort of like a strawberry shortcake (plus black tea) – however my concern making it would be that like the Rootbeer I had earlier today the flavour would fall incredibly short to the delicious aromatic smell. However, steeped up it’s not too bad. I mean, yeah it doesn’t quite live up to the smell but it’s still a really nice strawberry flavour with a fudgey cake like (not shortcake) layer underneath and a nice enough black base (no bitterness or astringency). It reminds me of DT’s Love Tea #7 with a bit of a step up in strawberry flavour.

That said, I have lots of Love Tea #7 so I wouldn’t consider getting more of this one until I was out of Love Tea #7 – which could be awhile.

Thanks Courtney!

Courtney

My friend loves this one! She sends it to me occasionally because I’m not quite to the point where I need it myself, but I wanted to share the love haha.

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