Spoil your family members and dine in type within the consolation of your property with an Easter afternoon tea. Throwing your personal get together makes for straightforward leisure – it helps you keep inside your price range and permits you to select your personal appetizers, truffles and cocktails.
Because it’s Easter, you do not really feel like you need to persist with conventional recipes. Unfold seasonal rhubarb preserves on scones, combine a sizzling cocktail with cross buns or shake issues up with our Easter pastries.
Learn our recommendations on easy methods to host an Easter-themed afternoon tea get together in type under, then try our assortment of afternoon tea recipes, Easter pastries and desserts. Vegans needn’t fear both – we have got loads of inspiration with our vegan Easter menu.
Set the scene
Flip your eating area into a gorgeous Easter wonderland, stuffed with pastel and floral themes.
Mud your cake stand or use your fanciest dinnerware, plus delicate doilies and floral-patterned napkins. Adorn your desk with a reasonably desk runner: this easy white design will not distract out of your Easter celebration, with a floral meadow sample for some springtime color. There’s additionally a complete vary of matching kitchenware on this sample – we love the floral melamine bowl when you’re eating al fresco.
Make every visitor really feel particular with these easy bunny place settings, customized with names of your selection. Go the additional mile with these lovely gingham bunny serviette rings, pastel Easter crackers and raffia placemats – select from beige, pink, blue or soothing sage to match your Easter imaginative and prescient.
In case you’re ranging from scratch, search for inexpensive porcelain, from teapots and teacups to cutlery and cake slicers. You’ll be able to’t go unsuitable with the normal tearoom aesthetic; nevertheless, a medley of colours and rustic patterns will look visually interesting.
Get extra inspiration, together with cake stands and kitchenware, with our greatest Easter desk adorning concepts.
Easter cocktails
Earlier than company arrive, set out a bowl of sugar and a milk jug able to serve your company a cup of tea after they arrive. For tea, add as a lot as you want, together with (however not restricted to) earl gray, english breakfast, chai, peppermint, fruit, and herbs. You may as well make a cafetiere of sizzling espresso; try which espresso beans we at present love.
Serve up a chilly pitcher of peach iced tea for a fruity refresher that is excellent for sunny climate, topped off with actual peach slices and recent mint. For a boozy drink, break up the fizz and serve a kir royale, or whip up a elaborate Aperol mimosa for an Italian twist on the normal boxing fizz.
For post-party sipping, use leftover sizzling cross buns on this festive Easter cocktail, which places a tantalizing, Easter-spiced twist on an amarreto bitter.
Savory treats
It is best to offer loads of savory bits to keep away from sugar overload. Go forward by prepping your sandwich toppings forward of time; merely assemble simply earlier than company arrive to keep away from soggy sarnies.
The selection is yours on the subject of finger meals – a plate of neatly sliced finger sandwiches stuffed with creamy coronation hen won’t ever look misplaced at afternoon tea, and sandwich fillers like egg and cress or smoked salmon are fail-safe winners.
Deal with company to savory treats together with scrumptious salmon and zucchini mini quiches, basic scotch eggs and earl grey teacakes slathered with butter and a bit lemon curd.
Easter scones
Scones are the beating coronary heart of any afternoon tea – their tender, ethereal middle is the right base for clotted cream and heaps of jam. Though scones are finest the day they’re made, you may also make them upfront, freeze them and thaw them in a low oven on the day.
Make fluffy and fruity scones with our straightforward step-by-step recipe. They’re prepared in simply half-hour. Or swap candy for savory with a batch of Wensleydale cheese scones.
Making your personal jam is deceptively straightforward (and any leftover jars will be taken dwelling as items). Our straightforward strawberry jam recipe is a good place for budding jam lovers because it solely requires three substances. Or take it up a notch with our juicy strawberry jam spiced up with Pimm’s (you would be lacking a trick when you did not serve it on this strawberry bowl!).
Use seasonal produce with our rhubarb preserves, enlivened with spices together with fiery ginger and chilli. Pour into a reasonably bowl with a silver spoon for buddies to assist themselves.
Easter bakes
Afternoon tea is not full with out a dazzling show of candy treats, akin to cupcakes, blondies and sandwiches – all with an imaginative Easter twist.
Particular person parts are important to the afternoon tea aesthetic, so bake a beneficiant batch of small Easter cupcakes, properly adorned with mini eggs and chocolate chips. Take your love of Creme Eggs to the subsequent degree with our Creme Egg cupcakes, that includes a putting yellow icing.
Exhibit your Easter adorning abilities with our Easter Rocky Highway, Easter Blondies and Easter Cookies, filled with Malteser’s Mini Bunnies, Galaxy Golden Eggs and M&M’s Eggs. These recipes all take lower than an hour, so you can also make them the night time earlier than or the morning of your occasion.
Widespread at Easter, you are certain to wow company with these attractive gooey ice cream buns, topped with a zesty blood orange icing and fairly edible flowers for a springtime really feel. Each afternoon tea wants a bit spice: scotch creme eggs are a standout novelty that company will not quickly neglect, or go all out with our attractive white chocolate Easter cake.
Try our guides to all of the important baking gear you may want, then browse one of the best cake stands to showcase your bakes.
