Chocolate Cookie - Rooibos & black tea 100 g - Café du Jour loose tea

Cocoa beans, not chocolate

Chocolate Cookie is a Café du Jour blend of rooibos tea and black tea with real cocoa beans and sugared almonds mixed through the leaf. The chocolate note comes from those cocoa beans and the flavouring that goes with them; there is no chocolate and no biscuit in the pack. What you get is a sweet, cream-coloured cup with a biscuity edge, sitting on the soft rooibos and black tea base.

Milk suits it

A dash of milk brings the creamy, biscuity side further forward, which is why this one works as a milk tea next to a plain biscuit or a slice of cake. Use about 2 g of loose tea per cup, roughly a level teaspoon, and pour boiling water over it; four to five minutes is enough, because the black tea keeps building after that and the cup turns strong rather than sweeter.

A strainer, and a word on caffeine

This is loose-leaf tea, so you need a strainer, tea filter or filter bag, and a roomy one at that, because the cocoa beans and almond pieces are bigger than the tea leaves. There is no caffeine in the rooibos, but the black tea does bring some, so the blend is not caffeine free. The level stays lower than in a straight black tea, since the black leaf is only part of the mix.

In the pack

• Type: flavoured rooibos and black tea, loose leaf
• Ingredients: cocoa beans, sugared almonds, rooibos, black tea, flavouring
• Flavour: sweet chocolate and biscuit, cream-coloured in the cup
• Brewing: 2 g per cup, boiling water, 4-5 minutes
• Caffeine: yes, from the black tea
• Contains almonds
• Contents: 100 g
• Produced in the Netherlands