Candy Cane Crush

Brought this one out tonight. I have about 40-45 grams of it left. I like it, but it does leave an oily residue on the cup and the teapot. That’s not enough to lose it points, just something to be aware of.

It brews up rather pale and cloudy. I like the creamy minty flavor. The ‘leaf’ (I put that in quotes because it is more than half additives) is very pretty and festive. A lovely holiday tea.

It is still snowing here and my parking lot has not been plowed in over 24 hours so no one is getting out or in. Cars have tried, and now they are stranded in the lot like scattered toys abandoned by a spoiled child. When they do come to plow i9t will be a nightmare. I am a little worried about getting to my oncology appointment tomorrow and may need to call an Uber.

I accidentally bought 200g of this, thinking it was Santa’s Secret (which is also a black tea, vanilla, peppermint, sprinkles concoction). It looks amazing with the candy canes, white chocolate chips and snowflake sprinkles. It just… doesn’t taste good to me. No matter how much I use, it just tastes like I melted a candy cane into some hot water. Weak peppermint. And it kind of makes for a thick, oily-ish brew. I wanted white chocolate, vanilla-ish tones, creaminess, and actual black tea, and I get none of those things. All of the Christmas/holiday offerings from David’sTea have been absolute duds for me so far this year. Depressing. I don’t know what I’m going to do with 200g of this stuff :/

I absolutely, positively love this! Every sip was a sip from heaven! Of course this is my own personal feelings about this tea as the rest of the family was not granted the option to even try it as I only had a small tester amount.

Dried the leaf filled my senses with peppermint and reminders of the winter months and the long missed candy can hot chocolate that Tim Hortons brings out each year (I can no longer have this since they cannot guarantee that it does not contain wheat or gluten). I instantly became impatient for the brew to sit. It produced a cloudy deep peach coloured liquid and filled the air with a peppermint aroma. From the first sip I was in love. Creamy smooth mint danced amongst my taste buds and the last sip left me longing for more.

Sadly it is not an option to buy in store or online and my jubilation was cut short.

The resolution that came on the little tin – Get to know your crush. I do know him, I married him and have sent him on a mission to find this tea lol.

This may be my favourite tea. Creamy, minty and sweet. It’s an absolute treat! Try it hot or as an iced latte. Sooo good as an iced latte.

I drank this tonight as I watched more SMASH episodes.
it’s low in caffeine so it’s a good bet for the evenings.
and i love the vanilla and mint teas always.

i watched the eps where Jeremy Jordan sings one of my favorite songs, and i couldn’t stop giggling because the man has some beautiful pipes! but sadly he really can’t dance.
and they do what they can to cover it, but even the little bit of dancing they show is hard to watch.
in the recent Supergirl episode they put him behind the piano and left him there. and it was beautiful.
his singing brings me chills and often ends in my spontaneous fitspump.

I think this tea does better in the container than brewed up. It’s a very pretty tea with the snowflakes, white chocolate and candy cane pieces and smells quite nice. Brewed up, the tea takes on a cloudy brown colour that as other reviewers have noted isn’t very appetizing looking. The flavour is quite sweet, a bit too much for a morning black tea I find. All in all, I prefer Santa’s secret if I’m looking for a morning black tea with a holiday splash. The black tea flavour is lost in all the sweetness of this tea. Still, it’s not horrible, just incredibly sweet.

I’m sad to say that this one’s not for me at all. I’m really not a fan of how weak this tea turns out, I don’t think there’s enough literal tea leaves in this one. The white chocolate, sprinkles, and candy canes are so cute but too much for me.

Love this one! To me it’s just the right level of sweet for a dessert or treat type of tea. I steep it for about 4 or 5 minutes, and enjoy it “black” (although given the white chocolate, it isn’t really black at all, haha), with a splash of milk, or as a latte. It tastes far mintier to me than the similar Santa’s Secret does, but also much sweeter. Where Santa’s Secret is a nice sipping tea all through the day, Candy Cane Crush is more indulgent and flavorsome. The black tea taste itself isn’t very pronounced, but all the lovely mint and sweetness does get a nice malty background from it. Definitely a favorite and it’s hard to resist having it all the time, but this blend has quite a bit of sugar for it to be an ‘every day’ tea. Glad it’s limited edition for that reason, haha.

I can imagine it’d be lovely as a strongly brewed latte topped with whipped cream – maybe next Christmas I’ll try it like that.

A nice, minty black tea. Didn’t get the white chocolate at all besides making the tea look cloudy and milky (and pretty unappetizing). Personally I would add a bit of sugar, but it’s perfectly fine on its own.

Edit March 8, 2017: After drinking this a few more times the trick is to let it steep for an absurd amount of time like DAVIDsTEA’s “Hot Chocolate”. Then you will taste white chocolate and sweetness.

very peppermint-y, added too much sugar so toooo sweet. wouldn’t recommend adding any.