Welcome back to Tea With Me and Friends....sorry we haven't posted much in the last week...it was the excitment of Afternoon Tea Week! That and we've been busy preparing for a rather special tea party...a Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Lorna's garden!
For those of you who have visited our blog for a while now you'll know that we enjoy hosting afternoon teas as much as we enjoy going to fancy ones in hotels or tearooms. This particular tea party was Lorna's idea, we've had it booked in our diairies for a while and wanted to enjoy it in the garden ....thank goodness the weather was kind to us!
Now, Lorna's styling was pretty amazing for this afternoon tea....so I might have taken the odd photo or two....but I thought you wouldn't mind drooling over some extra photos in this post! So, grab a cup of tea and a piece of cake and sit back....presenting our Mad Hatter's Tea Party....
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| Mad Hatter's Tea Party Tea with Me and Friends |
In the centre of the Lorna's garden we had several tables, all piled high with iced tea and bubbles (we were a little too hot for traditional tea) sweet and savoury homemade goodies. Lorna also added beautiful flowers in various bottles and jars, along with all kinds of weird and wonderful items.
We followed a traditional afternoon tea menu, starting with savoury items....
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| Afternoon tea savouries Tea With Me and Friends |
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| Afternoon tea cheese scones |
We had egg mayonaise finger sandwiches, Queen of Hearts savoury tarts and cheese scones smoothered in cream cheese. Plus these was a large tomato and cheese tart. Lorna opted for just one sandwich filling as we had quite a few savoury options to pick from.
We then had blueberry and lemon curd scones with clotted cream....
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| Afternoon tea scones and cakes Tea With Me and Friends |
We really had to pace ourselves with this afternoon tea as we went a little crazy with the baking!
The sweet treats included vanilla biscuits, starwberry shortbreads, merguine mushrooms, gin and tonic cake and passionfruit and coconut rum cupcakes with lime icing.
There really was something for everyone....
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| Afternoon tea biscuits |
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| Passionfruit and coconut rum cakes with lime icing |
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| Strawberry shortbreads |
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| Afternoon tea cakes Tea With Me and Friends |
I told you there would be lots of photos!
Now obviously we enjoyed our afternoon tea served on Lorna's vintage china collection...but we also got to use some lovely glasswear for our bubbles and even the cutlery looked pretty....
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| They gave me that teeny tiny glass! |
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| A spot of Lorna's handy craft made the cutlery pretty! |
Now with such a wonderful setting for the tea party it would have been rude if the guests didn't look the part too....so here we are...before we got too hot in the sun and changed back out of the fancy dress.....
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| Mad Hatter's Tea Party Tea With Me and Friends |
We had a tea-riffic time....with great company and scrummy food! We'll be sharing some of the recipes on the blog soon, just in case you fancy creating your own Mad Hatter's Tea Party at home!
A big thank you to Lorna for hosting such a fab tea party!
Thank you for popping by today,
we hope you've enjoyed all the photos!
Rachel & Lorna
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