Lavender & Lace Tea Party Ideas

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If Teapots Could Talk: Fun Ideas For Tea Parties

 

More than 60 recipes for all the treats you’ll need for an afternoon tea party: scrumptious scones, dainty tea sandwiches, savory appetizers, tea time sweets and the perfect pot of tea. If Teapots Could Talk: Fun Ideas for Tea Parties has 15 creative theme party ideas like “Lavender & Lace”, “Mad Hatter”, “Fortune Telling” and everyone’s favorite, “Chocolate”. The book includes suggestions for invitations, games and activities, decorations, menu choices and party favors. Size: 5.5” X 8.5”, Soft Cover, double wire binding, 108 pages, ISBN: 978-0-9790618-2-0.  $8.95  

 

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Lavender & Lace Tea Party from If Teapots Could Talk: Fun Ideas For Tea Parties

Host an elegant lavender and lace tea party to surprise and delight your guests. 

 

Print the invitation on lavender paper and trim with pretty lace. Ask your guests to wear lavender.

 

Cover your table with a lavender table cloth with a white lace overlay. Your centerpiece can be a bouquet of lavender in a pretty teapot.

 

Serve Lavender and Lace Tea (page 19). As much of the food as possible should be lavender-colored or purple, such as flavored cream cheese tea sandwiches (page 39), lavender blueberry muffins or scones, mini-cheesecakes topped with a blueberry glaze (page 54) or try some of the lavender recipes listed below.

 

For a fun activity, have all the guests sit in a circle. Give one guest a wrapped gift. Read the poem below and have the guests pass the gift to the person on their left each time they hear the word “lavender”. The guest holding the gift at the end of the poem is the winner. You can also use two gifts, starting them at opposite sides of the circle. For a real challenge, have the guests pass the gifts in opposite directions around the circle.

 

Party favors can be organza drawstring bags filled with culinary lavender in a tiny plastic bag, and a recipe card attached on which you have written one of the lavender recipes you served at your tea party.

Lavender Poem Game

 

You are cordially invited

to a lovely lavender tea.

So don a lavender outfit

and join me and my friends at three.

 

There’ll be lots of lavender treats,

and lavender in the teapot.

Do you like lavender cheesecake,

Or lavender scones, I forgot?

 

We’ll drink lavender tea with honey

and eat lavender cookies and cake.

And other lavender goodies,

I’ll put in bags for you to take.

 

How about a lavender game?

Let’s have lots more lavender fun!

We’ll find out who the winner is

when this lavender poem is done!

Lavender Tea Cookies

 

1/2 cup sugar

1/4 cup butter or margarine

1 egg                                              

2 teaspoons dried, ground culinary

     lavender  

1/4 teaspoon dried lemon peel

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/8 teaspoon salt

 

Grind lavender in a clean coffee grinder or food processor before measuring. Preheat oven to 375°.

 

Cream together butter and sugar. Add egg, lavender and lemon peel; mix well. In a separate bowl, blend the flour, baking powder and salt. Add the dry ingredients to the creamed mixture and mix well. 

 

Drop by teaspoonfuls onto lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake about 12 - 14 minutes. Don’t over-brown. Remove from oven and cool on wire racks. Makes about 18 cookies.

Lavender Egg Salad

Tea Sandwiches

 

4 large hard-boiled eggs
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/2 teaspoon dried, ground culinary

     lavender

1/2 teaspoon prepared yellow

     mustard

Salt and pepper to taste
Butter or margarine, softened
10 slices of white bread

 

Peel eggs and place in a medium bowl. Mash the eggs with a fork. Add mayonnaise, salt, pepper and mint; stir until well blended. Cover and refrigerate for at least one hour to blend flavors.

 

Lightly butter each slice of bread. Spread 5 of the slices with about 3 tablespoons of the egg mixture. Top with remaining slices of bread. Trim away the crusts and cut each sandwich into 4 triangles or squares. Makes 20.