Afternoon tea is a light meal served between lunch and dinner. Afternoon tea menu should include both sweets and savories like scones, quiche, tea sandwiches, cake and tarts along with tea. Usually afternoon tea is a light refreshment, so make it simple, however when it replaces meal, try to add more variety of food. Afternoon tea menu ideas are simple and easy. Look into the foods that can be part of your Afternoon tea menu.

Tea

Tea is the main item served, so try to choose the tea which everyone would like to have. There are many kinds of tea namely green tea, oolong tea, black tea, white tea, compressed tea, and flavored tea. To make the event quite different, serve organic tea, herbal tea or iced tea. 

Tea Sandwiches 

These are tasty treats in the evening that comes in many shapes like hearts, triangles, circles or any other creative shapes. The bread used is very thin and fresh. The traditional method of sandwich preparation uses watercress or cucumber. However you can use egg, seafood, chicken, cheese.  Some of the tea sandwiches to be included to your afternoon tea menu include goat cheese and watercress sandwich, pecan sandwich, and salmon wasabi tea sandwich.

Scones

These are small biscuits prepared using sugar, egg, cream and flour. Traditional tea scones uses oatmeal, barley or wheat and eaten with tea and butter. Presently scones are made using dried fruits such as cherry, coconut, date and apricot. Serving scones varies in different countries; they are served plain or can include dates, raisins, cheese and currants. Its good when served hot with jelly, jam or butter. It can also be taken with clotted cream or lemon curd. Clotted cream like crème fraiche and Devonshire can be used with scones.

Desserts

Afternoon tea menu ideas should be interesting considering everyone who attends the tea. So generously display all variety of desserts and sweets. Consider to include English trifle to your afternoon tea menu, which is prepared with pound cake whipped cream, pudding and fruits. Cream puffs, cheesecake with lemon curd, lemon bars or cookies, almond honey cakes and orange poppy seed cake are the other dessert choices for your afternoon tea. Fresh cut fruits would be fine; however it is nice to serve chocolate dipped sandwiches, honey dew melon and candied orange rind.

Afternoon tea is an event by its own; however, nowadays it is used as a theme for other events like anniversary, birthday and graduation celebration. Based on the event you can plan your afternoon tea menu.

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