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Afternoon Tea at Home

22nd August 2016

I love visiting quaint little cafes for afternoon tea. Not that it’s a major past time for me but it’s definitely something I enjoy doing when I can.

Something I’d never actually tried to do myself before was recreate and afternoon tea setup at home.

Afternoon Tea at Home

Afternoon Tea at Home

I say ‘home’ loosely as we were actually away at a little lodge for Chris’ birthday. But I’m sure you can excuse that.

The usual setup of an afternoon tea is a couple of tiered cake stands (if that’s what they’re called) with some little foods all over them.

I got my 2 stands from Home Bargains and they were only Β£1.99 each! I knew I wanted to do sweet & savoury seperate. It was just so I could get more on each one. And because it was for Chris’ birthday, I didn’t want to have to cook so I wanted to have enough to just nibble on throughout the afternoon and into the evening.

Afternoon Tea at Home

Afternoon Tea | The food

I tootled off to Lidl and got the majority of food. I did have to pop to Tesco for some extras and some clotted creams for the scones! Just because.

I ended up getting quite alot and realised actually I didn’t even need half the stuff I’d got. But when a couple of my family members popped to the lodge to give Chris his birthday presents it actually turned out ideal that they could have a ‘picnic tea’ with us too!

It’s each to their own what is on your platter. I got snacky bits like sausage rolls & scotch eggs. I got some sandwhiches and some quiche too.

For the sweet one I went all out, because it’s similar to cream tea right?

I got scones, cinnamon buns, cookies and of course Chris’ favourites; fizzy sweets!

It turned out relatively inexpensive, probably partly due to the fact I went to good old Lidl!

Have you ever tried making your own Afternoon Tea?

helen

in Adventures, Food, Recipe # afternoon tea, food, foodie, lodge

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