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A dessert tea is an ordinary tea or herbal blend flavoured to taste like a pudding, a cake or a biscuit. Most are black tea with natural flavouring, so you brew them like a normal cuppa, and a few are herbal or rooibos blends with no caffeine.
What counts as a dessert tea
There is no official category. The name covers any tea sold on a pudding flavour, and on our shelves that means three families: bakery flavours on black tea, chocolate blends, and caramel or vanilla blends. They sit inside the wider world of flavoured black tea bags.
The useful question before you buy is what the base is. A black tea base means caffeine and a cup that takes milk. A herbal or rooibos base means no caffeine and a lighter cup. If you would like sweetness with nothing added at all, our guide to naturally sweet teas covers that side.
Yorkshire Tea bakery brews
Taylors of Harrogate lists five flavoured brews, and all five are in stock here. The maker gives the same recipe for each: black tea from Africa and India with natural flavouring. It also gives the same caffeine figure as standard Yorkshire Tea, about 48mg in an average cup made with 200ml of water and brewed for five minutes.
| Brew | Base | Caffeine | Flavour the maker describes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew | Black tea | Yes | Malty biscuit. The maker's own site calls it Malty Biscuit Brew. |
| Caramelised Biscuit Brew | Black tea | Yes | Caramel and gentle spice, after crunchy continental biscuits |
| Cherry Bakewell Brew | Black tea | Yes | A Cherry Bakewell |
| Sticky Toffee Brew | Black tea | Yes | Rich sticky toffee pudding |
| Victoria Sponge Brew | Black tea | Yes | Vanilla and jam |
Each comes as a box of 40 bags. We have longer pages on Biscuit Brew, Sticky Toffee Brew and Cherry Bakewell tea, and a side by side in Yorkshire flavoured brews compared.
Yorkshire Tea dessert brews in stock
Biscuit, Cherry Bakewell, sticky toffee and Victoria sponge flavours on a proper black tea.
Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew, 40 Tea Bags 112g
Yorkshire Tea Cherry Bakewell Brew, 40 Tea Bags 112g
Taylors of Harrogate 40 x Sticky Toffee Brew Yorkshire, 112g
Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea Victoria Sponge Brew, 40 Pack 112g
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Chocolate and caramel from Teapigs
Teapigs takes the chocolate end of the shelf, with three blends on three different bases.
- Teapigs Chocolate Flake is a black tea blended with chocolate. It contains caffeine and is the one to have with milk. We have more on it in our Chocolate Flake page.
- Teapigs Chocolate and Mint is a herbal blend of peppermint and cocoa, listed as caffeine free.
- Teapigs Rooibos Creme Caramel is rooibos with caramel, also listed as caffeine free.
All three are hard to find. When we checked on 13 November 2026, the Teapigs online shop did not list any of them, and we have not found a statement from the maker saying why. We have all three in stock today.
Teapigs chocolate and caramel blends
One black tea to drink with milk and two caffeine free blends, all three hard to find.
Teapigs Chocolate Flake, 15 Tea Bags 37.5g
Teapigs Chocolate and Mint, 15 Tea Bags 37.5g
Teapigs Rooibos Creme Caramel, 15 Tea Bags, 37.5g
Autumn Sale prices shown. The sale ends on 24 December.
These are products sold by teas.co.uk. Every order includes a free tea sample, and UK delivery is free over £35. Check each product page for the latest price, availability and pack information.
Lines we list that are out of stock
Three Tetley dessert teas are in our catalogue but out of stock today: Tetley Chocolate and Mint Tart, Tetley Lemon Drizzle Cake and Tetley Digestive Biscuits. We have no restock date, so we are not promising one. Our Tetley Digestive Biscuit tea page explains what that blend is.
Yorkshire Tea Toast and Jam is also out of stock with us, and it is not among the five flavoured brews on the maker's site today. The closest things in stock are the brews in the table above.
How to brew and serve them
Brew the black tea versions as you would a breakfast tea: freshly boiled water, three to five minutes, milk if you take it. Taste before you add sugar, because the flavouring already reads as sweet.
Give the herbal and rooibos blends five minutes or a little longer. They have no tea leaf to turn bitter.
They also work next to the real thing. A biscuit flavoured tea with an actual biscuit is the obvious move, and our Border biscuits are on the same shelf. For more ideas see tea with cake.
Dessert teas at a glance
| You want | Pick |
|---|---|
| Biscuit flavour, with caffeine | Yorkshire Tea Biscuit Brew or Caramelised Biscuit Brew |
| Cake flavour | Victoria Sponge Brew or Cherry Bakewell Brew |
| Toffee | Sticky Toffee Brew |
| Chocolate with milk | Teapigs Chocolate Flake |
| No caffeine | Teapigs Chocolate and Mint, Teapigs Rooibos Creme Caramel or Dragonfly Organic Vanilla Rooibos |
Common questions
Do dessert teas contain sugar?
Yorkshire Tea lists only black tea and natural flavouring for its five flavoured brews. Blends made with chocolate or caramel pieces are a different matter, so read the ingredients on the pack.
Do dessert teas have caffeine?
The ones built on black tea do, and Yorkshire Tea gives about 48mg a cup for its flavoured brews. The peppermint and rooibos based blends above are listed as caffeine free.
Can you put milk in a dessert tea?
Yes, in the black tea ones. They start from a breakfast style blend, which is made to take milk.
Real biscuits for the biscuit tea
Border biscuits from the Scottish family bakery, to sit beside the cup.
Border Butterscotch Crunch Organic Biscuits, 135g
Border Milk Chocolate Viennese Whirls, 150g
Border Lemon Drizzle Melts Organic Biscuits, 150g
Autumn Sale prices shown. The sale ends on 24 December.
These are products sold by teas.co.uk. Every order includes a free tea sample, and UK delivery is free over £35. Check each product page for the latest price, availability and pack information.
Reference noted
Recipes, flavour descriptions and caffeine figures come from the maker: Yorkshire Tea: speciality black tea range, Malty Biscuit Brew, Caramelised Biscuit Brew, Cherry Bakewell Brew, Sticky Toffee Brew and Victoria Sponge Brew. Teapigs availability was checked on the Teapigs online shop.
More from the tea wiki
- Yorkshire Biscuit Brew
- Yorkshire Toast & Jam (Discontinued)
- Yorkshire Tea Sticky Toffee Brew: A Pudding Flavour on a Malty Tea
- Yorkshire Flavoured Brews Compared
- Tea and Desserts
- Tunnock's Milk Chocolate Teacakes: What Is Inside
- The whole Tea Wiki, A to Z
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