Bird & Blend Advent Calendar Day 3 – Peppermint Hot Cocoa
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Okay, I said the other day that I wasn’t going to cheat and look ahead to any future advent teas. I may have slightly broken that resolution today but, hear me out, there were extenuating circumstances.
Having reached day number 3 and been presented with another non-tea herbal-type offering, I genuinely had a moment of panic this morning and thought I may have purchased the caffeine-free version of the Bird & Blend advent calendar by mistake. It’s okay though. I snuck a look at Saturday’s tea blend and am now reassured that there will be tea in my teabag tomorrow.
This puts me in a much better frame of mind to review today’s Peppermint Hot Cocoa, a blend of roasted dandelion root, cocoa nibs, peppermint and cocoa shells. It tastes at first sip like common or garden peppermint tea. However, if you allow this tisane to cool for a bit then the cocoa flavours really do come out to play.
This makes for a surprisingly creamy tasting drink with almost coffee-like base notes. I’m guessing that the dandelion root at work. Roasted dandelion roots are used as a coffee substitute, aren’t they?
It’s my favourite so far of the Bird & Blend Advent blends and, if I hadn’t been already frustrated by this calendar’s lack of Camelia Sinensis in its opening numbers, I’m sure I would have appreciated it all the more.
At least I know there’s proper tea coming tomorrow. I do feel guilty for looking, though. I’ve crossed a line. Next thing you know, I’ll be picking up the presents under the tree and shaking them and then I really will be beyond all hope.
Today’s featured book is, once again, The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore. You are going to get a new page of this book each day until I run out of pages.
