It is well & truly the time for Winter Afternoon Tea!
On the inside of the window, a layer of frost frames the vista of white sugar coated landscape beyond. It is quite the perfect backdrop for a warming winter afternoon tea.
Just the perfect Pink & grey rose vintage royal Albert cup for winter afternoon tea
Winter Afternoon Tea creates a magical environment for intimacy and companionship
Outside, the snow is swirling, inside, sitting by the glow of a warming fire, what more magical a setting could there be to share the intimacy & companionship of a pot of perfectly brewed tea. Tea with Mary Kate’s recommendation is mouthfuls of reassuringly fabulous Yorkshire Gold tea, leaf naturally.
Winter Afternoon Tea Table decoration
Tea Cups filled to the brim with an inspiring mix of foliage bring the winter countryside indoors. Holly & ivy, combined with vivid red rose hips, aromatic eucalyptus, pine cones and snowy white roses complete the exquistit winter afternoon tea flower table decoration.
Winter inspired flower filled Tea cups for a perfect Afternoon Tea table decoration
Idea’s for a Winter Afternoon Tea Menu
The aim of this Winter Afternoon Tea menu is to inspire to create your own quite splendid & throughly indulgent tea time treat.
Winter Afternoon Tea Menu
A small cup of carrot & warming ginger soup with a hint of clementine
Blinis with smoked salmon & creme fraiche topped with caviar
Trifle filled Tea Cups
A small cup of carrot & warming ginger soup
With just a hint of clementine, this is the perfect start to a warming winter afternoon tea. Serve with thin slices of wholemeal bread spread thickly with butter.
Gorgeous Vintage Tea Cups filled with warming Carrot & Ginger soup
Blinis with smoked salmon & creme fraiche topped with caviar
The blinis must be warm so the creme fraiche is just melting, and I insist on them being devoured in one mouthful!
Winter afternoon Tea Blinis
Trifle filled Tea Cups
Fabulous sugared purple violets top an eclectic mix of vintage tea cups filled with jelly & sponge bound fresh berry fruits, vanilla custard & a generous dollop of whipped cream.
Tempting Trifle filled vintage tea cups
Winter is always a reflective time of year
Although there is a comfort in its familiarity, the darkness offers us no space for distraction. In that very repetition is the chink that pierces the armour of our usual busy distractedness, compelling us to consider what perhaps we have been avoiding to think about. As the shortest day approaches, Tea with Mary Kate’s wish is for this post is to encourage you to consider turning over a new leaf, to ponder why you have never done all those things that you have been promising that you would always do.
