What are those cakes on your cakestand?

"What are those cakes on your cakestand?" I have been emailed that question a number of times recently, after my last post about Pink Lamingtons for Australia Day. I thought I would share the answer with everyone. Thankyou too to all who have sent me gorgeous emails over the past month, I so appreciate them all.

And yes, I have been a little busy these past 2 weeks - but there are actually more designs in the works (or spread all over my sewing table is more like it)

"Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies,
with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes etc;
being brought in as other guests arrive."
~ Mrs Beeton. The Household Book of Management.

Tea Parties are such a fun way of having a 'fancy afternoon tea'. I have found that smaller or daintier portions of sweet and savoury treats work the best, because you usually find that everyone wants more. And they have to still have room left in their tummy for a cup of tea or coffee!

On my Cakestand for that day I had homemade White & Pink Lamingtons in the smaller size. There were Buttercake Cupcakes with various pastel Buttercream Icing colours - White, Pink & Green - and the cupcakes were topped off with sweet little, freshly picked, pink rosebuds.

Pictured above: Top left: Miniature Meringues sandwiched together with swirls of coffee buttercream. Top right: Jam Rollettes wrapped in a pretty Pink Rosebud paper and tied with kitchen string - they made such a pretty little package. A White Lamington is in the background. Bottom left: Shortbread Cream stack - these were Arnott's Premier Melting Moments - tied up together with lashings of sheer Pink Organza Ribbon. Bottom right: homemade Chocolate Chip Biscotti - made smaller than the normal sized Biscotti - topped with squiggles of Pink Icing.

If you would like more Tea Party Ideas or even ideas about how to have a Rose Tea Party, which includes recipes for rose petal sandwiches, sugared rose petals & rose petal butter, you're most welcome to have a look at those articles on my Site.

I hope that your curiosity has been satiated hehe and that you find an inspiration or an idea or two that you can try next time you have a sweet and luscious Tea Party. And thanks again for asking, I actually enjoyed reliving that just now through writing about it (& it made me hungry too lol)

Rosy wishes