Serving afternoon tea is a quintessentially English past-time and it can be an excellent option for entertaining a large number of people. Preparing scones and simple cakes is quick and easy, and you will be able to impress your guests with your culinary skills. Serve the meal with pots of English tea. A best kept secret, these are some of the easiest afternoon tea recipes out there!
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Easiest Afternoon Tea Recipes You Can Make
You can make these incredible scones and cakes recipes for your next get together! These are simple and easy to follow recipes that make for a quick snack. Give these recipes a try for a care-free tea party!
Easy Afternoon Tea scones Recipe
Easy Scones
Plain scones are incredibly easy to make. It is best to prepare them just before serving your afternoon tea, as they are at their most delicious when hot from the oven.
Ingredients
- 8oz self raising flour
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 2oz softened butter
- 1oz sugar
- 1 teacup of milk
Instructions
The oven should be pre-heated to 200°C while you prepare the mixture. Allow at least two scones per person, more if your guests have big appetites. The quantities listed here make 12 scones.
Measure 8oz self raising flour and add a pinch of salt and a teaspoon of baking powder. Using self raising flour as well as baking powder will make your scones rise beautifully.
Add 2oz softened butter and 1oz sugar and mix to a dough with about 1 teacup of milk. Roll out your dough to a thickness of about half an inch and use a cutter of around 2” diameter to cut into rounds. Place on a greased baking sheet and cook for around 12 minutes until well-risen and golden.
Notes
Using self raising flour as well as baking powder will make your scones rise beautifully.
Serving your scones
Traditionally, scones are served with jam and clotted cream, but if you do not have any clotted cream, the warm scones will taste delicious with just butter and jam. If you make your own jam, this is a perfect opportunity to use it. Otherwise buy some good quality jam from the supermarket, or better still from your local farm shop. Raspberry jam goes exceptionally well with scones, but other flavours such as strawberry and plum work well too.
Easy Afternoon Tea fairy cake Recipe
Simple Fairy Cakes
There are a number of books available containing recipes for elaborate cupcakes, but if you do not have the time or inclination it is easy to make pretty and delicious fairy cakes according to the simple instructions below. Serve garnished with strawberries and colored icing for an added twist!
Ingredients
- 4oz self raising flour
- 4oz margarine
- 4oz caster sugar
- 2 eggs
Instructions
For a chocolate variation, remove one tablespoon of the flour and replace it with a tablespoon of cocoa powder. Beat the ingredients well, preferably using an electric mixer until the mix turns pale in color.
Line a 12-hole cupcake tin with paper cases and divide the mixture equally between the cases: it works out at around one dessert spoon per cake. Bake at 150°C for about 20 minutes.
To tell if the cakes are ready, take them out of the oven and listen carefully to them: if they are not ready you will hear a quiet bubbling noise. Allow the fairy cakes to cool on a wire rack before icing.
Notes
To make a simple icing just mix up some icing sugar with enough water to make a think pouring consistency. For a colored icing add a drop of food coloring.
Basic quick-mix sponge cake
Quick-Mix Sponge Cake
To make a simple cake for the center of your table, all you need is a set of shallow sandwich cake tins, ideally 8” diameter. Add a few simple ingredients and you've got a reliable cake recipe!
Ingredients
- 8oz Flour
- 8oz Margerine
- 8oz Caster Sugar
- 4 Eggs
Instructions
A simple fail-safe cake can be made by mixing together 8oz each of flour. As well as caster sugar and margarine, along with four eggs. Beat well for two minutes until the mixture turns pale then divide the mix between the two greased sandwich tins. Bake for around 30 minutes at 150°C until the cakes begin to come away from the side of the tin. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for five minutes before turning out.
Notes
To assemble the cake make a simple butter icing filling using 6oz icing sugar and 3oz margarine or softened butter. Add a drop of vanilla essence. Beat together until well combined, then spread on one of the cakes. Spread jam on the other cake, and sandwich them together.
Hopefully you’ve enjoyed some of the easiest afternoon tea recipes! Grab your favorite type of tea and a few good friends. These heartwarming recipes are a great way to unwind.
Easy Cake Recipes for Your Afternoon Tea!
Feel free to indulge with these cake recipes that are just too good looking not to make! They’re easy to add to your recipe book, and a joy to serve. Each one can be presented nicely on a tray alongside your other afternoon tea treats. Or, you can enjoy them on their own for a lovely evening of tea and cake. Do yourself a favor and check out these tea cake recipes, they’re exactly what you need to make a memorable afternoon tea spread!
Afternoon Tea Cake Recipes
These scrumptious afternoon tea cake recipes will add some mouthwatering, eye catching cakes to your spread. Give your guests something to remember, and fill up your recipe book so you can put out the perfect afternoon tea treats!
This soft and sensational olive oil tea cake will be the talk of your spread!
This banana tea cake is as easy to make as it is to eat! Pair it with a black tea, or a blend like Earl Grey for the perfect accompaniment.
Mango Snack Cake with Toasted Coconut Crumb (Gluten-Free, Vegan)
This snack cake is filling and impressive, show it off in your next afternoon tea spread.
If you're looking for a simple but eye-catching afternoon tea cake, this is a great place to start! It has lots of flavor and will compliment any tea.
Cute and easy? These 3-ingredient funfetti cake truffles will steal the show, and make the perfect bite-sized teatime snack!
All-American afternoon tea, everyone? This low-card tea cake is a healthy way to ring in tea time on teh 4th of July!
Instant pot fans! This is the tea cake for you. Delicious and springy, it's ideal for just about any afternoon tea.
Step things up a notch with this rich and filling fall afternoon tea cake recipe!
This is a fool-proof no bake cake that will make your afternoon tea a total breeze!
Liven up your afternoon tea experience with this luscious coconut cake recipe!
Emulate some of the most high-class afternoon tea trays out there with this blueberry teacake in a jar! It's a lovely and stylish way to upgrade your afternoon tea.
If you prefer to keep things simple, but tasty this lime drizzle cake is the answer you've been looking for! It packs lots of flavor, and plays nice with black teas, and herbal teas a like!
This orange cake is packed with flavor! What else will you pair with it?
Vegan and gluten-free? This hummingbird loaf cake is made to impress! Add this recipe to your cookbook for a lovely go-to!
Forget everything you thought you knew about carrot cake! This stuff is a cake lover's dream. Tuck in with a nice cup of tea.
Enjoy this delightful lemon poppy seed loaf cake with nice blended tea, or herbal to suit your taste!
Cookies n Cream cheesecake right in your pressure cooker! This awesome cake is a course all its own, for the perfect single-dish afternoon tea.
This gingerbread loaf might remind you of Christmas, but you can easily enjoy it all year round!
These little mug cakes will look incredible in your spread! Use this recipe for an afternoon tea people will keep talking about.
This is a classic, spongy and sweet tea cake that doesn't steal the show from the tea!
