Afternoon Tea and Cake or Scones

Afternoon tea for me would be a selection of daintily cut sandwiches (smoked salmon & cucumber, egg & cress, ham) followed by a selection of mini cakes plus scones with jam & clotted cream.
All washed down with a pot of Darjeeling tea, and if being extra indulgent, a glass of bubbles with a strawberry! ?
Ooh, I'm drooling now!

A pot of Assam tea for me please, and a strawberry tart - one of those with lots of confectioner's custard in the base and glazed strawberries on top.

And a big round fresh cream eclair with coffee icing on top (called an elephant's foot in my neck of the woods.

Oh and I think I'll round it all off with a custard slice.

Nothing else, just that, because I'm on a diet too

Thanks Mick, same time again tomorrow?

Hmmm Manchester tart,a pot of Earl grey, a table with a view,(outdoors) peace&quiet...lovely!

Ugh, I hate smoked salmon! Hot smoked is lovely, but cold smoked........nope!
So, sandwiches, very thin white bread, crab; cucumber; cheese with onion pickle.
Cakes are to be Manchester tart, carrot cake, rich fruit cake with Cheshire cheese, and a bit of my home made Bara Brith, served with salty Welsh butter of course!
I'll be drinking Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee too please!

I have two favourite haunts when it comes to cafes
1: Blackhams in meadow walk Buckingham coffee £1.80p for a standard with cold milk , they also have a display of cakes , flapjacks etc tempting .
2: Nash's Bakery in Bicester café at back of shop , coffee £1.40p also tempting cakes , plus you also have stamp card with 9th free
With your receipt you can get a discount on cakes ,and bread at the shop counter.
Mick

I love a good slice of lemon drizzle ?

Absolutely love afternoon tea, but I can't have it as the carb content is much to high., I might have just a plain scone but that is not quite the same is it ?

Filter coffee black no sugar
with Chocolate Cake and Alpro simply plain Yogurt

Delicious.

Kitty, we have a cafe at our allotment every Sunday morning run by volunteers and today we offered 3 cakes a bakewell tart, peach pistachio and polenta cake and a jam and oat crumble slice, the last two were gluten free. We love a full blown afternoon tea with little sandwiches, scones and cakes. DH eats the egg ones and I eat the cucumber, but we both love the smoked salmon. We also like a glass of bubbles with our tea.

Mine has got to be lemon drizzle everytime followed closely by a fruit scone smothered in strawberry jam and a strong served in a china cup.
After reading this thread I am checking my store cupboard to make sure I have everything in to do some cake baking tomorrow.

Last Sunday we were out for an old-fashioned High Tea!
Main courses were traditional - steak pie, chicken, salmon etc.
Then it was tea, scones with jam and cream plus beautiful cakes.
Served from 3 until 8 every Sunday.
Highlight of the meal was the announcement that DS and DiL will present us with their first baby in April.
So that's why he organised a family meal out!!

National Trust, especially the larger places, have nice cakes and scones. The best afternoon tea experience I ever had was a few years ago when we went to The Savoy, a birthday treat, we had the works, finger sandwiches, scones with jam and cream, endless tea and a glass of champagne. I think we went on to the theatre afterwards feeling totally bloated from an overload of carbs. I also love Bettys of Harrogate, I wish we had a Bettys down here in the south.

One of North's treasures!!

Curd Tart in Bettys in Northallerton for me please! (I live near Bristol so it's a bit of a long drive though...!)

Finger sandwiches. Egg and cress, and cucumber. Small, warm sausage rolls. Then fruit cake, a fruit tart and a scone with jam and cream. Plus lots of tea. Of course this is all fantasy. I eat low carb so can't have any of it. But I like to see others enjoy a good tea.

Last weekend when visiting family, I had home made earl grey fruit loaf with a slice of Wensleydale, delicious.

Tea and cake, of course! Plain cakes, nothing with nuts in. Chocolate cake high on the list...

Betty’s curd tart, Fat Rascals and a pot of Earl Grey! Lovely.