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This tea has actual carrot flakes in it. I think I can safely say that this is the first tea I’ve ever had with carrots in the ingredients list. I’ve bought green tea and avocado before, so I am not averse to vegetables in my tea. (I don’t want to hear any of your nonsense about avocados being technically a fruit.)
This tea doesn’t so much taste of carrots, though, as taste exactly like carrot cake. Spookily so. I think the caramelised hazelnuts help here, bringing – as they do – sugar to the whole endeavour. The carrot flakes and hazelnuts pair up beautifully with rooibos, cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, and mallow flowers and result in a cup of tea, which is not dissimilar to how I imagine it would be if you put a slice of carrot cake into a blender and then made a beverage out of it. They’ve even somehow got the taste of the cream cheese frosting in there.
So I can confirm that Bird & Blend‘s description of this tea as “a yummy scrummy cakey cuppa” isn’t some marketing hyperbole. It is a factually accurate description of the product. They could have bunged “creamy cakey goodness” on the label as well.
Today’s guest book is Baking with Vegetables. Because carrot cake isn’t the half of it, apparently.
