High Tea!

Kara had a marvellous idea, and a high tea was organised! Complete with pretty tea cups, delicious morsels of food, a beautiful garden in the sunshine, and ladies in dresses and hats!











Anita made this selection of tarts, custard and mini pavlova!


Fancy sandwiches by Kara

Lemon tarts

I made these strawberry macarons. They were filled with strawberry almond buttercream.  They didn't quite work as well as my test batch, but they still looked pretty and tasted quite yum! (Will have to keep practicing!)


Those are my choc caramel brownies that are out of focus.... they were nice and gooey!

These little scones were great! I think I need the recipe!!

I also made these little lemon cupcakes!

We only slightly over catered.... (ok, there was heaps of food left over!), but maybe all of the guests just under ate :-) .  Look forward to the next one!!!!

baking - Rhubarbwhines Lemon Cookies

When I saw the recipe for these Lemon Cookies on Rhubarbwhine's blog here -Rhubarb Whines Lemon Cookies - I just knew I had to make them. It has taken me a while to actually get around to it - but I can see these cookies being made many times in the future - they are quite delicious!

A couple of notes about the recipe - it took me 4 lemons to get the required amount of juice, which was fortunate, since I only had four lemons to hand (hopefully this will change when I get my own lemon & lime trees in the near future!).

The recipe makes more icing than you will need - so next time, I would reduce the quantity to avoid having to "taste test" so much of it :-)