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Saturday 18 April 2015

Time for something a little bit different....Tea

Hello there,

Happy Saturday! Welcome back to Tea With Me and Friends.

Today is a special day, as two of our friends are getting married - a huge congratulations to Alex and Aron! Now, this might seem like a bit of an unusual post for Tea With Me and Friends...but I promise there is some afternoon tea coming up!

I had the pleasure of attending Alex's hen weekend in Bristol, a group of us hired a house and had a lovely weekend. It was organised by Alex's bridesmaids Louise and Lauren, and they had the brainwave of hosting an afternoon tea at the house during one of the afternoons. As a group we thought this was a fab idea and all wanted to contribute to this afternoon tea adventure.

If you have popped by the blog before you might recognise Alex's name, as she is rather passionate about afternoon tea and often comes on our adventures! We began the morning with some crafting, each of us making a felt cat head that will be made into cat bunting for Alex....

Alex getting her craft on!
 We got very creative with our cats....


Then later in the afternoon we prepared the afternoon tea spread, which was all homemade.....

A homemade afternoon tea spread

As you can see the house was very well equipped for hosting a proper afternoon tea, just look at this wonderful cupboard (which we made the most of!)....

A proper china cupboard!

We were very traditional and included all the usual items in our afternoon tea....

Crustless afternoon tea sandwiches

The sandwiches were crustless and the scones were served warm....

Homemade afternoon tea scones

The sweet treats were all so different and included lemon cake, coffee cake, cat shaped vanilla biscuits, mini victoria sponges...you name it and we probably had it....

Afternoon tea sweets

Mini victoria sponges


We even had these amazing cat shaped cake pops, which were rich and scrummy....

Cat cake pops!

We were all really pleased with our efforts and so was Alex when we finally let her see the spread....

Alex and her afternoon tea spread!

All in all this was a wonderful experience that I got to share with a lovely group of ladies.

So, over to you....do you have any homemade afternoon tea photos that you'd like to share with us? We'd love to hear about your afternoon tea adventures at home - please leave us a comment!

Thank you for popping by today,
Rachel

3 comments:

Pina at One Two Culinary Stew said...

I spy Prosecco. Well done, ladies! :)

Jean | DelightfulRepast.com said...

Rachel, my photos aren't very well organised or I'd send you one of my many afternoon tea at home pics. This was such a lovely one! What did you bake your little Victoria sponges in?

Jean | DelightfulRepast.com said...

PS Just thought of this: You can see a photo of something I made for my last afternoon tea at home because I blogged about it. http://www.delightfulrepast.com/2015/03/crumpets-classic-british-teatime-treat.html