What’s in Salted Caramel tea?

Salted Caramel tea from Biscuit & Brew is blended with Sri Lankan black tea, coarse pink Himalayan salt and natural caramel flavouring. It looks simple but pretty, with dark matte leaves sprinkled with coarse salt crystals. Biscuit & Brew teas are definitely worth trying if you love flavours and interesting ingredients. This tea has a beautiful caramel scent, with pieces of salt sprinkled among pretty looking black tea leaves.

What does Salted Caramel taste like?  

To make a cup of Salted Caramel tea, steep 1 teaspoon of tea leaves in a cup of freshly boiled water for 3 minutes. It brews into a lighter but intense red coloured tea with the same caramel scent. Don’t over-steep it, as it may become bitter.

Salted Caramel has deep black tea notes blended with a soft and sweet caramel touch. If you like to drink your tea with milk, this is a perfect blend to do so. Add condensed milk, rather than regular milk, as it also has natural caramel notes. Condensed milk goes really well with this tea, and it will enhance the flavour further. It’s actually quite delightful to find a tea that can taste exactly as the name promises. While it’s undeniably a black tea, together with milk, those stronger black tea notes become incredibly soft, leaving caramel notes to shine. If you want to experience the salty caramel flavour, pay attention when scooping out tea leaves, to scoop out salt crystals too. A perfect sweetener for this tea would be a light or dark brown sugar.

Salted Caramel tea is an amazing choice for making a proper milk tea or a tea latte. To really intensify the flavour, add two teaspoons of tea leaves rather than one. Served with milk, it’s the ultimate afternoon dessert tea for any tea lover that loves caramel too.

Who would like this tea? This is a perfect blend for anyone who likes caramel, regardless of if you love black teas or not. There’s no bitterness, no harsh notes, only delightful caramel scent and flavour, beautifully incorporated into a mellow black tea base. If you love more natural flavours that are strong but not overpowering, this tea is for you.

Tea Recap

Water or milk? Water or milk.

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot.

Sweetened or pure? Pure or with a teaspoon of brown sugar or caramel sauce.

Caffeine? Yes.

What’s the price? Starting from 4.75 GBP.

Where to buy? Get it from the Biscuit & Brew website.

Other Teas from Biscuit & Brew

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Twinings Dark Caramel tea is one of the most intense caramel teas out there.

And for sure, one of the sweetest.

What is Twinings Dark Caramel tea?

Twinings Dark Caramel or No 22 tea is a black tea with golden syrup and toffee flavourings. This tea is exactly what the name says – a super-rich, dark caramel tea with an intense flavour. Indeed, it’s difficult to think of a caramel tea that tasted so close to the caramel as this tea.

Although the base of the No 22 blend is a strong black tea, this tea is literally all about toffee, golden syrup, brown sugar, molasses, and sweetness. It’s available in classic tea bag style that’ super easy to brew both at home and in the office.

Dark Caramel is crafted with tea drinkers that love to add sugar to their tea in mind, to offer especially sweet and indulging flavour without the need of adding any other condiments.

In fact, this intense sweetness and toffee scent are present immediately upon opening the box and will make any tea lover really eager to try that first cup.  

What does it taste like?

Now, a little warning.

Twinings Dark Caramel is nothing like a regular caramel tea. It’s also nothing like a regular flavoured black tea. And it’s far from a classic black tea. This tea is intense. It’s so intense you will feel you are drinking a properly sweetened tea.

To enjoy the best flavour, use 150-230 ml freshly boiled water and steep it for 3-5 minutes at 98 degrees Celsius. It’s very sweet, smooth, with a strong toffee flavour. Black tea is not dominating this blend but offers a perfect strong base. If you are used to regular black tea blends, this tea may not be the right choice, as the flavour of black tea is very, very mild.

The second amazing thing about this tea is that although it will give a deeper and darker infusion than loose leaf tea, it will have absolutely no bitterness. You can over-steep it, leave the tea bag in the mug, drink it cold or hot, and it will still be great. This is quite rare among classic tea bags, as they usually tend to have some bitterness if you over-steep them.

The third great thing about Twinings Dark Caramel tea is that it’s perfect for experimenting. It tastes delicious both hot and cold, with or without milk, iced with milk, or as a latte with vegan milk alternative.

However, not all tea drinkers will enjoy this tea.

Who would like this tea?

Twinings says, this tea is for those that prefer to add sugar to their tea. This blend is perfect for anyone who enjoys caramel and golden syrup flavour, even if you are not so fond of black teas. First and foremost, Twinings Dark Caramel is a playful, sweet dessert tea. If you are looking for pure black tea flavours, this blend is not for you. But if you want an incredibly delicious caramel flavoured tea that’s easy to brew and tastes great no matter how you make it, give it a chance, it may surprise you. It could easily become your favourite.   

Who else would like it? Tea drinkers who enjoy flavoured sweet teas, and prefer hot chocolate over black tea, especially if the bitterness is what you dislike about black teas.

Twinings Dark Caramel Recap

Water or milk? Water or milk (you can also use it to make a proper milk tea)

Day or night? Day.

Hot or iced? Hot or cold.

Sweetened or Pure? Pure, it’s already sweet enough.

Caffeine? Yes

What’s the price? Starting from 3.99 GBP.

Where to buy? Get Twinings Dark Caramel from Twinings website or Twinings Amazon store.

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What is Caramel Pudding Black Tea?

Tea blends have never been as flavourful and exciting as they are today. Some blends may contain dozens of ingredients to offer flavours that are truly unique, and some may achieve a perfect balance and elegance using only a few “simple” ingredients. A couple of decades ago, only some black teas were used as a base for blending, and just by reading the ingredients list, you could get a good idea how the blend will taste. Those days are gone. Today, no two caramel teas will taste the same, even if they contain “the same” ingredients. One of the reason is a choice of the tea base.  

Caramel Pudding black tea from Tea Paradise is made with Kangaita black tea from Kenya. It’s a high-grown tea with pretty tea leaves, robust but mellow flavour and hints of sweetness and maltiness. It’s similar to a lighter malty Assam tea, with a light briskness of Ceylon teas, and deep mellow warmth. This Kangaita black tea is blended with pieces of brown sugar and coffee and caramel cubes. It’s simple and elegant in both scent and appearance, with very deep and strong hints of delicious sweet caramel.

How does it taste?

To make a perfect cup, use 1-2 teaspoons of tea leaves (depending on if you want to make it with milk or pure) and steep for 3 minutes in freshly boiled water. Caramel Pudding black tea brews into an orange-brown tea with deep caramel and cocoa scent. It has a sweet and delicate flavour that’s slightly lighter than the scent, with no bitterness. All this makes it perfect for afternoon tea times when you want not only an energy boost, but a delicious and delightful flavour too. You can enjoy it pure or turn it a real indulgent treat by using caramel syrup or brown sugar instead of regular sugar or honey and adding a splash of condensed milk or coffee creamer instead of regular milk.

Deep and sweet flavour profile makes this tea perfect for making lattes and baking with tea – it’s strong enough for making a delicious milk tea or a proper tea syrup.

If you love roasted oolongs or even darker roast hojicha black teas, you will like this tea too. It’s not overpowering, and it has a very long sweet aftertaste. Because it’s not overpowering, it’s great as a daily tea as well and great for tea drinkers that want caramel flavoured black tea that’s not too intense.

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What is Toffee Apple tea?

Toffee Apple tea is a flavoured black tea blend inspired by the ultimate autumn treat – toffee, candy or caramelised apples. The traditional toffee apples are fresh apples coated in caramelised sugar often mixed with red food colouring. They are so popular that they even have their own national day – October 31st. Toffee Apples are usually available in autumn, but they are easy to make at home too. However, making a cup of toffee apple flavoured tea and adding the right condiments may be just as delicious.

Toffee Apple black tea blend from The Tea Crew is a pretty and deliciously smelling blend of Ceylon black tea, apple pieces, cherries, coriander seeds, almonds and natural flavourings. It smells sweet and fresh, with deep sweet apple base notes. Since a good apple needs not only to be sweet, but fresh and crispy too, smooth and crisp Ceylon black tea is a brilliant choice for this blend.

The best thing about liquified autumn treats is that while they are full of flavour, they are also virtually calorie free. This tea doesn’t contain any added sugar, but since it’s a black tea, it contains caffeine.

How to brew this tea?

Use 1 heaped teaspoon of tea leaves per cup of water and steep for 3-5 minutes at 100 degrees Celsius. First and foremost, this is a Ceylon black tea. It’s not an intensely flavoured blend, and the scent is lightly sweet, with deeper black tea notes. Toffee Apple is highly aromatic, but still light autumnal tea with hints of apples and sweetness. It’s not astringent or bitter and is great with no condiments.

For the ultimate experience, the best possible way to drink it is with 1 teaspoon of unsweetened condensed milk and ½ teaspoon of brown sugar. With a bit of creaminess and nutty sweetness, the result is a real liquified autumnal treat. It will still be low in calories, as adding ½ teaspoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of condensed milk will add approximately 30 calories to this tea.

Toffee Apple is a very easy to drink tea great for tea drinkers that prefer lightly flavoured or pure teas, rather than strong flavours. It has a truly warm autumn feeling, but it’s not overpowering or heavy.

More autumnal flavours.

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What is the Heroine?

Tea and the Gang say the Heroine is a superhero blend full of the good stuff – nutrients, antioxidants, and we dare to add – a very pretty colour and an incredible scent. It’s blended with Japanese matcha, cocoa powder and flavouring granules.

Matcha is a shaded Japanese green tea, ground into a fine powder. In the last decade, matcha gained enormous popularity worldwide, and not only because of its potential health benefits and unique flavour. It’s easy to make, super versatile, and has a beautiful green colour. And as it turns out, it can be blended with different ingredients for an even more unique flavour profile.

The Heroine is a real proof.

It has a beautiful green colour, especially considering it’s blended with 43% of cocoa powder.

How to make chocolate and caramel matcha tea?

Traditionally, matcha is prepared using a special bamboo whisk called chasen, a tea bowl called chawan, and measures using a matcha scoop – chashaku. These three utensils will be highly valuable for making any matcha at home. However, if you want to enjoy it as a latte, you will only need an electric whisk and a cup. Handheld battery-operated simple whisk is great for whisking both matcha powder and frothing the milk.

Per instructions, measure 1 gram of matcha powder and add about 30 ml of 80 Celsius degrees water. Mix it well and top up with hot frothed milk or hot water.

For a stronger flavour, add a gram more, especially if you want to make it with milk.

Does chocolate and caramel matcha taste better with water or with milk?

We tried it with both. While it tastes great with water only, it’s the milk that brings out chocolaty notes of this blend. It’s delicate, light, but undoubtedly matcha – and undoubtedly flavoured with cocoa powder. Since this chocolate and caramel matcha contains both matcha and cocoa, colour is less intense, but still pretty, delicate light matte green.

This tea has an amazing scent – warming, soothing cocoa on a green tea base.

This may be a wonderful blend for matcha traditionalists too, when feeling adventurous to try out something new. It would be great even for chocolate drinkers that are not too fond of grassy intense matcha scents, but would like to add a green tea to their daily routine and perhaps switch from a calorie rich drink to something lighter.

All in all, this chocolate and caramel matcha tea is delicious!

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