Tea Party Recipes, Tips and Ideas

When you plan a tea party, you are planning more than the tea, you are planning a tea party that your guests
will remember fondly.

It is not the tea itself that makes the tea party special, it is the spirit of the tea party. Thats why little
girls loves tea parties. A new generation of children is ready to learn about the wonderful world of
entertaining and tea parties. The tea party has become more fashionable again and more and more parents are
hosting tea parties for their children either as a birthday or special event celebration.
Girls more then boys will enjoy the tea party and will have an opportunity to pretend to be grownups. The tea
party should be geared toward the age of the children, provide flexibility and allow them to interact with
each other and to enjoy themselves. Plan an age appropriate theme, decorate the room and plan games to help
entertain them.

The attire for the children can be casual or formal. although a formally dressed tea party is best for the girls
for the simple reason they get to act like adults and sit at formal tables.

Kid Friendly recipes makes it all the more imaginative for your little girl so try these recipes and later I’ll
give you the adult recipes.

Tea sandwiches

When it comes to the sandwiches try your child’s favorite sandwich. Keep in mind the tea sandwich is crustless
and cut in quarters either across or diagonally. Here is some of my favorite sandwiches. This works well
with either a child or adult.

Pineapple-Cream Cheese Sandwiches

3/4 cup soft butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon or nutmeg
20 slices bread of your choice
11/2 cups soft cream cheese
1/2 cup pineapple, finely chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped nuts

Combine the butter with cinnamon or nutmeg and spread the mixture over 1 side of each slice of bread.
In a small bowl, cream the cream cheese, if necessary, and stir in the pineapple and nuts.
Spread the cream cheese mixture evenly over 10 slices of bread and top with the other 10 slices.
Remove the crusts and cut. Makes 40 quarter tea sandwiches.

Cream Cheese Sandwiches

Makes 3 whole sandwiches

Ingredients

12 thin slices of bread
8 oz. softened cream cheese
4 tsp. milk (if you use whipped cream cheese, you don’t need the milk)
4 tbs. finely chopped dates, raisins, or dried apricots,
OR
4 tsp. finely chopped green onions

Directions

In a medium bowl, mix the cream cheese and milk together until it is smooth. Stir in your choice of dried
fruit or onions. Spread the filling on three slices of bread, and then top with the remaining slices. Trim off
the crusts and cut sandwiches into shapes.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches

Makes 3 whole sandwiches

Ingredients

12 thin slices of bread
creamy peanut, almond, or cashew butter
jam, jelly, or honey (pick your favorite flavor)

Directions

Spread a thin layer of peanut butter on three of the bread slices.
Spread the jam, jelly, or honey on the other three slices.
Put the slices together to create your sandwiches.
Trim off the crusts, and cute sandwiches into shapes.

Traditional Tea Cakes Recipe:

4 cups flour

1 cup butter

2 egg yolks, beaten

milk

1 egg white, beaten

1/4 cup sugar

Caraway seeds

Mix all ingredients together, mix to paste with a little warm milk, cover with a cloth and let stand
for about an hour in a warm place. Roll out cut with round or shaped cutter & bake on lightly greased or
sprayed sheet at 350 degrees until they are golden brown.

This is also great for the adult party.

Keep in mind at a child’s tea party you don’t have to serve actual tea it could be juice or any thing
your child like to drink but It is a must to serve it in a tea pot with tea cups and saucers to make it a
tea party.

Moving on to the adult party ideas. You can spice up your party with any flavor tea.

Tropical Tea

ed tea becomes a tropical orange treat when it’s mixed with fruity flavor. From eatbetteramerica.
Prep Time:10 min
Start to Finish:10 min
makes:12 servings (3/4 cup each)

4 1/2 cups water
4 cups iced tea
1 can (12 ounces) frozen pineapple-orange juice concentrate, thawed
Fresh mint leaf, if desired
1. Mix water, iced tea and juice concentrate in large pitcher.
2. Serve over ice. Garnish with mint.

Orange-Ginger Green Tea

2 cups plain or vanilla soy milk
2 tablespoons honey
5 bags green tea
1 piece (2 x 4 inch) orange peel
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1. In 1-quart saucepan, heat soy milk and honey just to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring frequently;
remove from heat. Add tea bags, orange peel and ginger to soy milk mixture; stir to blend.
2. Push tea bags into soy milk mixture; let stand 5 minutes. Discard tea bags and orange peel.
Strain soy milk mixture before serving. Recipe is for serving 2 but add 1 to each item for each person that
you invite.

Egg Salad Sandwiches

3 tsp. tea leaves
8 hard-boiled eggs
3 Tbsp. mayonnaise
2 tsp. finely chopped chives
Pinch of salt, optional
8 slices bread, any kind

Mix together first four ingredients
spread on bread of choice cut into shapes.

Peanut Butter Pie

1 16 oz jar peanut butter

1 8 oz pkg. reduced fat cream cheese, softened

3/4 cup honey

1 8 oz. carton frozen whipped topping, thawed

1 prepared cookie, chocolate or crumb pie crust

2 tbsp chocolate chips

1/2 tsp shortening

Beat together cream cheese and honey until well mixed. Stir in peanut butter, mix

well. Gently fold in whipped topping. Spoon into crust. Heat chocolate chips and

shortening over low heat until melted; drizzle over pie. Chill for several hours.

Serve, and watch it disappear before your eyes!

Blueberry Tea Bread

1/2 cup sugar

1/2 cup oil

2 eggs

½. Grease a large pan or two small ones and set

aside, Cream all the wet ingredients together and then add the dry. The

batter should be not thick but loose. Bake until lightly golden and the top

of loaf springs back. Let bread cool.

Topping for breads:

1/4 cup of blueberries

1/2 cup hot water

1 cup sugar

Smash blueberries in small bowl. Stir in sugar until it is creamy. Take your loafs and prick fork

holes on top of loafs. Pour this sugar water on top of each loaf and let stand over night..

Quick Shortbread Cookies

1 1/8 Cup of Butter or Margarine

5/8 Cup of Sugar

2 ¼ Cup of Sifted Flour

1 Teaspoon of Vanilla

Powdered Sugar for topping

Directions: Mix all ingredients well and roll into small balls. Flatten with fingers onto a cookie sheet.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. As soon as you take them out, dust them with powdered sugar.

Savory Tea Scones

# Dry ingredients:
# One cup quick oats
# Two tablespoons of honey
# 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda
# 1/2 teaspoon of salt
# 1 heaping tablespoon of Pu Erh tea
#
# To this add:
# 2 eggs
# 10 tablespoons of olive oil
# 2/3 cup buttermilk.

In a 400 degree oven toast oats for 8-10 minutes. Mix dry ingredients thoroughly. To the dry ingredients
add the eggs, oil and buttermilk. Stir just till ingredients are moistened. Let stand for five minutes.
Pat the dough into two six inch rounds, cut each round into six wedges. Brush the top with a little olive oil.
Bake for 16-18 minutes in the 400 degree oven.

Reference for this article are from:

http://www.eatbetteramerica.com
http://www.betterrecipes.com
http://www.cookingclub.com
http://www.teachef.com
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