Tully's Coffee Cheese Tea

Cheese tea became a trend last year. It's basically tea topped with a light cheese cream. Tully's, a big Japanese cafe chain, came up with a version for their winter season. It was royal milk tea (a sweetened milk tea) with mascarpone cheese and strawberry.

I was expecting the royal milk tea to be very sweet, but to my happy surprise it was actually only mildly so. The sweetness in this drink came mostly from the strawberry jam and the whipped cream. I suspect the mascarpone was blended in with the whipped cream giving it some richness. Mixing the jam with the cream gave the drink a strawberry milk flavour. Overall, a good combination.

For spring, it seems they have a peach confiture and whipped cream royal milk tea drink. There's no cheese in this one though...perhaps the cheese tea trend has died.