An outbreak of Royal Wedding Fever was upon us with the anticipation for
Will and Kate's Big Day!
My girlfriends and I decided in light of the fairy tale wedding approaching a
celebrate was in order!
What could be more English than High Tea? So it was decided. The Princess
High Tea Party was a GO. And before you could sing Long Live the Queen
my good friend Sandradee set up a Facebook event for the Party!
I arrived at Sandra's on Friday evening with "The Princess Box of Delights"
in hand filled with a big plate of English Tea sandwiches,
12 little Classic English Scones with Danish butter, freshly whipped cream
and Strawberry Jam,
a selection of T2 Teas including Strawberries&Cream, Creme Brulee and
Monk Pear.
And what would a Princess Tea Party be without Tiaras! So i had 5 little pink
diamond incrusted Tiaras in there too.
My box of treats was a HUGE success! We watched as Catherine entered
the Church in her beautiful gown and was in awe of the spectacular "fairy tale
forest"
theme inside the Church.
By the end of the night there was pretty much nothing left of my princess
treats.
A happily ever ending to a great night.
Love Pip xo
Listed below all my recipes I created for our Princess Party for you to try at
home too!
Traditional English Scones
Makes 8-12 scones
Time to prepare: less than 30 minutes
Time to cook: 10 to 30 minutes
Ingredients
55g/2oz butter
225g/8oz self-raising flour
a pinch of salt
25g/1oz caster sugar
150ml/5fl oz milk
English Scone Recipe
Instructions
Firstly
heat the oven to 220C. Next sift flour then add salt and caster sugar.
Using your fingertips rub the butter into the dry ingredients until it forms
"crumbs". Slowly add the milk and mix together until you get soft
dough.
Turn the dough onto a floured work area and knead lightly. Pat
to a round
2cm/¾ inch thick. Using a 5cm/2in cutter, stamp out the
rounds and place
them on a lightly greased baking sheet. Knead together
the rest of the dough
and stamp out more scones to use up all of the
mix. Brush the tops of the
scones with a little milk. Bake for 12-15
minutes until well risen and golden.
Cool on a wire rack and serve with butter, jam & freshly whipped cream.
English Tea Sandwiches
Serves: 6 people
~2 loves of bread (1 light 1 dark)
~Approx.
. 350 g of Pumpkin thinly sliced (about 5 mm) and grilled in a
grill
pan with olive oil and sea salt (make sure you cool before preparing
your sandwiches)
~1 hand full of washed baby spinach
~Olive oil
~Parmesan Cheese
~Caramelized
onions. (2 onions finely sliced + 2 tsp of brown sugar
+ 1 Tbsp
balsamic (I used a barrel aged balsamic I got at Rocks
Farmers Market) Saute you're your Onion, sugar and balsamic in a pan
with olive oil on medium heat for about 15-20mins until onions are dark and soft.
(make
sure you cool before preparing your sandwiches)
~Gorgonzola (I use brand IGOR you can find at Coles. My Italian friend
told me about it. Its the best!)
~1 small Fennel bulb
~Cream Cheese
~1 Lebanese cucumber peeled and finely sliced
~Butter at Room temperature
~Salt + Pepper
Grilled Pumpkin, Spinach, parmesan and caramelized onion sandwich
Brush
6 slices bread slices with olive oil, place 3 or 4 spinach leaves on
each
side of your bread. On 1/2 of the bread slices place a layer of
Pumpkin , then
1 Tbs. of the onion topped with 4-5 shavings of Parmesan
cheese salt and pepper.
Put your sandwiches together, cut crusts off
and cut into 3 pieces.
Caramelized Onion, Gorgonzola and fennel sandwiches
Brush
6 slices of your bread with olive oil. (I bought a beautiful Aniseed
Myrtle Oil
at the Rocks Foodies Markets which worked beautifully) Place
2-3 Tbs of your
Caramelized onion mixture over 1/2 the bread slices.
Top with a thin layer of finely
sliced Fennel topped with a light
grating of Gorgonzola. Put your sandwiches together,
cut crusts off and
cut into 3 pieces.
Cucumber sandwiches
Spread you're
finely sliced cucumbers onto a plate covered with kitchen paper.
Lightly salt them and leave for 10mins for the water to be drawn out.
Blot with
kitchen paper.
Butter 6 slices of bread. Spread about 2
tsp of cream cheese on each slice. Place
your sliced cucumbers over the
bread. Season with cracked pepper and a light sprinkle of salt. Put
your sandwiches together, cut crusts off and cut into 3 pieces.
Display your little finger sandwiches on tired cake stands for the perfect addition to your very own High Tea Party!
