* So he can Hoe, Hoe, Hoe!
Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 18 – Snowball
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Snowball is a heady mix of Sri Lankan black tea, cocoa shells, desiccated coconut, cocoa nibs, red cornflowers and flavouring.
Originally, I thought that Snowball tea was named after the alcoholic beverage but a cursory amount of research has revealed that that is not the case. (The Snowball cocktail contains advocaat and lemonade.) This led me to the rather the delightful conclusion that Bird & Blend’s Snowball tea is in fact inspired the Tunnock’s Snowball, the coconutty cousin of Tunnock’s world-famous (I hope) Teacake.
I was going to remark on how it was nice to have a vegetarian equivalent of the marshmallowy chocolate treat because I assumed that Tunnock’s snowballs weren’t vegetarian but I have just checked the website and they bloody well are you know. So are teacakes! I could have been eating these delicious Scottish treats all along! What on earth have I been doing with my life?
All the flavours in this tea marry together perfectly. And then everyone in this polyamorous ingredient marriage roll around together and create a warm, sensual – and slightly naughty – taste experience. It is a boatload of gorgeous chocolate coconuttiness and it made me very happy.
Tea Ranking
- Mince Pie (17th Dec)
- Hazelnut Rocher (7th Dec)
- Snowball (18th Dec)
- Gingerbread Chai (16th Dec)
- Salted Caramel Lebkuchen (13th Dec)
- Panettone (11th Dec)
- Banana Bread Chai (12th Dec)
- Fairytale of NY (9th Dec)
- Poppin’ Xmas Butter Toffee (6th Dec)
- Candy Cane (5th Dec)
- Winter Is Coming (4th Dec)
- Peppermint Hot Cocoa (3rd Dec)
- Mistletoe and Wine (14th Dec)
- Christmas Cranberry Pie (1st Dec)
- Cherry Cola Bottles (10th Dec)
- Mulled Cider (2nd Dec)
- Cold Weather Warrior (15th Dec)
- Fireside Snuggles (8th Dec)
