Homemade Afternoon Tea - a birthday celebration

Angela M - Garden Tea Cakes and Me Sunday, February 24, 2013

It has been a while since I have posted an Afternoon Tea for you all. Earlier this week a friend celebrated her 70th birthday, so we helped welcome this milestone birthday with a quiet but simple afternoon tea.

Afternoon tea treats!

Menu

Chicken finger sandwiches

Cheese finger sandwiches

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Raspberry and cream shortbread

Fruit cake

Butterfly fairy cakes

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Harvey Nichols Afternoon tea blend

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An array of Afternoon Tea ideas

The shortbread was made using the Shortbread Fingers recipe, but this time I used a standard pastry cutter along with my homemade stamp, which I have been waiting to use since last June. You can make the biscuits the day before, then pipe on a little fresh cream and top off with a few raspberries - simple but highly addictive!

I also defrosted a few butterfly fairy cakes from the freezer that morning and the fruit cake was made a few days earlier. An afternoon tea that did not require hours of preparation and just as enjoyable as if hours were spent on it.

20 comments:

Jacqueline Meldrum24 February 2013 at 16:37
Looks wonderful, I wish someone would do that for my birthday.
Janice Pattie24 February 2013 at 18:28
How delightful. I have to cater for my mother's 80th birthday lunch in March, I don't think finger sandwiches are going to do it, and I have to transport the whole lunch and cake 200+ miles :o
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Caroline25 February 2013 at 13:53
So pretty! I love your crockery too - I am kicking myself for not having kept my grandmother's china tea set (I blame my ex who said we didn't have room for it!) - eating off vintage china makes afternoon tea even better!
Miss C Flash26 February 2013 at 20:38
Wow, that is certainly an impressive homemade afternoon tea spread. I especially like the picture of the fruit cake x
Claire26 February 2013 at 22:02
Oh that is so lovely. I adore afternoon tea, both the making and devouring! Your shortbreads look delicious :)
Maggie27 February 2013 at 13:17
Everything looks really lovely - the mismatched vintage crockery looks wonderful.
Esther James27 February 2013 at 20:11
I would pay a lot of money for that!
olivia28017727 February 2013 at 23:20
That looks really pretty and very thoughtful. I love all the delicate china! I enjoy afternoon tea. I adore drinking tea!
magical1 March 2013 at 12:39
wow look lovely x
chrisreid2 March 2013 at 18:34
I really like the way you have set up the table and of course the cakes look fab x
Carolin @ Mummy Alarm3 March 2013 at 18:00
Such a cute idea. I love afternoon tea x
Claire Toplis4 March 2013 at 07:49
What a. Beautiful idea
Victoria Androsova8 March 2013 at 21:39
great idea, will use in the future
Karen Painter19 March 2013 at 14:50
Looks good enough to eat!!
I'm now thinking of doing something similar for a 50th birthday coming up soon, just got to scour some local fairs and charity shops for some vintage china!
Erica Price30 March 2013 at 18:23
What a lovely treat for your friend.
Alex8 April 2013 at 21:01
Wow! That looks amazing!