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.