High tea at your favourite hotel is a special experience but when time and geography get in the way it’s just as easy to have your own at home. Get the kettle bubbling, bring out the old silverware, we’re bringing back the tea party with food fit for a queen.
We’ve taken the classic Italian pasta dish and turned it into scones! These make for the perfect morning or afternoon tea treat, and are so easy to pull together. While delicious on their own or with some cultured butter, they really sing when served with mortadella, fresh rocket leaves and ricotta, and some pickled chillies for zing.
This is an edited extract from Beatrix Bakes: Another Slice by Natalie Paull (Hardie Grant Books, RRP $50. Available in stores nationally).
Time to update your afternoon tea roster? Yotam Ottolenghi is here to help. These sweet buns – lightly spiced and brushed with syrup – will become your coffee’s new best friend.
Adding lemonade to your scone dough creates an ultra-fluffy, extra sweet result. You'll need a 23cm (4cm deep) round baking pan for this recipe.
“Ginger, tea and dark chocolate are perfect partners for this rich teacake." – Lucy Busuttil.
Preheat your oven, because Phoebe Wood has given us the best sweet bun recipe thus far, and it makes the most of what's already in the pantry.
We've taken the best parts of a ploughman's board and turned it into scones. You’ll need to start this recipe a day ahead to make the relish, and you'll need a 4cm round pastry cutter.
Serve these mini cakes while they are still warm for maximum enjoyment.
Valli Little has really outdone herself this time.
We're never too full for plump plums in a bake, covered with oozing white chocolate custard.
Fragrant and fresh, this beautiful fruit-laden cake is ideal for morning or afternoon tea, or as a special Christmas treat.
If you've never indulged in browned butter before, you're in for quite a treat. Slowly heated until it transforms into a caramel colour, the butter becomes nutty, sweet and infinitely more-ish. Don't say we didn't warn you.
This pie plays on the classic combination of strawberries and cream that you grew up on as a child. This adults version is perfect for relaxed weekend entertaining.
Take your breakfast plans to the next level with these Aussie-as Vegemite and cheese hot cross scrolls.
Melt-in- your-mouth scones with homemade jam takes this recipe to another level.
