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.
Oh dear.
Yikes. I hate when the base is covered up like that. What’s the point of having tea leaves in there at all?