The Menu in Pictures

Counting Down to Tea Time

With only three days left before the Annual Mothers' Tea for their Daughters, a palpable excitement can be felt in the air, at least in our household.  The girls have picked out their dresses, and are busily scrounging through my closet for accessories.  In the meantime, our menu is shaping up beautifully from delights promised by the mommies!

Appetizers

Chicken Salad Sandwiches

Cucumber Sandwiches

Salmon and Cream Cheese Croquettes

Pineapple Nut Tea Sandwiches

Desserts

Lemon Bars

Orange Cupcakes

Walnut Ball Cookies

Grapes

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Mini Cheesecakes

Beverages

Selection of Regular and Herbal Teas

Lemonade and Water

But an Afternoon Tea cannot be complete without Scones, Clotted Cream, and Strawberry Jam!  Email us directly at saintannshomeschool at gmail dot com for the scone flavors you can bring, and if I may add, I am partial to orange-cranberry.

Menu Ideas: Desserts

Desserts are often the first things our daughters learn to make.  Chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and frosted and shaped sugar cookies.  For an Afternoon Tea, baking these same things in a daintier size make it seem more special.  Below are ideas from previous years' menus --

Mini Meringues

Cheesecake Shooters

Orange Cupcakes

Palmiers

Lemon Drizzle Pound Cake

Chocolate Petit Fours

Tea Cookies

Assorted Fruits

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Brownies

Chocolate covered Pretzels

Chocolate covered Strawberries

Green grapes

Oranges

Pineapple chunks

Red grapes

Strawberries

Tea cookies

Walnut cookies

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Amaretto truffle brownies

Assorted Fruits

Chocolate covered Strawberries

Cinnamon bread pudding

Fondant Puffs

Mini banana muffins

Mini meringues

Pineapple cupcakes

Tea cookies

Walnut cookies

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Menu Ideas: Appetizers

Do you need to be inspired?  Here are sample selections from our Afternoon Tea in previous years --

Chicken salad sandwiches

Egg salad sandwiches

Pimento Cheese Sandwiches

Tuna Salad Sandwiches

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Bacon delight sandwiches
Cheese and crackers
Chicken Salad Sandwiches
Cream Cheese and Olive Sandwiches
Cream Cheese and Smoked Salmon
Sandwiches
Cucumber sandwiches
Egg Salad Sandwiches


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Cream Cheese & Turkey Rounds
Chicken Salad Puffs
Cucumber Sandwiches
Ham & Pickle Rolls
Beef Turnovers
Brie with Raspberry Jam