Dormouse and The Teapot: afternoon tea

A Grim and Ghoulish Tea for Halloween

It's coming up to that time of year again when our thoughts turn to ghosts, ghouls and bumps in the night.

Here at Dormouse we have been dreaming up some fantastic ideas for an atmospheric afternoon tea - after dark. Here are some of our evilest ideas...

Devilish Decorations

Carved pumpkins or gourds, black tea lights and a spooky soundtrack (think Evanescence or Mike Oldfield) all set the scene. Send out your invitations written in blood (red pen) and seal with wax.

Sand-witches and Sinful Savories

Why not try dirt and worm sandwiches aka prawns in marie rose sauce served in German black bread.

Or serve deviled egg eyes - cut 6 cold boiled eggs in half, mix yolks with 1tsp dijon mustard, 4tbsp mayo and mash with a fork, refill eggs. Make pupils out of black and green olives by cutting a ring of green olive and placing a dot of black olive in the middle and placing on the egg yolk. For a blood shot sprinkle with paprika for a blood shot look.

Poisionous puddings

Devils food cake would go down a treat alternatively spiced pumpkin cake is a great way to use up all your lantern inners.

Or make ghoulish cupcakes by making minicakes to your favorite recipe and smothering them in white roll out icing, decorate with black icing to make ghosts and spiders etc.

The Beast's Beverages

Hot or iced tea with a few drops of red food colouring served sans milk can be subsitituted for blood for the Vampires amongst you, serve in goblets for authenticity.

Alternatively make a witches brew by mixing cranberry and orange juice and popping in a few jelly lizards, frogs and snakes.

Don't have nightmares, eat well! Mwa ha ha haaa ...

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In afternoon tea, birthday

Happy Birthday to The Hazelnut Bakery

Dormouse and The Teapot are so lucky to have the most amazing specialist cake shop in the next village next to us.

The Hazelnut Bakery set up a mere twelve months ago but in that short time it has become a local institution.

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In afternoon tea, Autumn

An Autumnal Afternoon Tea

November is my favourite month of the year. There is a crispness coupled with the comforting smell of wood smoke in the air. The magic of bonfire night with hissing sparklers, treacle toffee and parkin as in the background beautiful fireworks light up the sky.

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In afternoon tea, chilli jam

Yee ha! Giddy up for a cowboy afternoon tea.

When I was a girl, one of my favorite games to play with my childhood friends was cowboys and indians. Yee harring on horses and making oo-oo-oo red indian sounds depending which particular side we were on that day.

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In afternoon tea, International Talk Like A Pirate Day

A totally tropical tea

Tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. Have you ever wondered what you would take with you if you were shipwrecked by maurading pirates and ended up a desert island?

A book, maybe some photographs, a penknife perhaps, but how about afternoon tea? Well you wouldn't want to starve to death would you?

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In afternoon tea, baking

Review: Teashop Treats by Readers Digest

Autumn seems to be tipping its hat once again and I find myself drawn to the kitchen.

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In afternoon tea, back to school

A wizarding afternoon tea

If you are a Harry Potter fan you’ll know that food and drink are a very central part of the books (and films). From Chocolate Frogs to Pumpkin Juice there’s hardly a chapter that passes without the description of some glorious meal or weird and wonderful foodstuff.

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In afternoon tea, french

Ooh la la! Let them all eat cake!

As Marie Antoinette once said “Let them eat cake!” Well actually, to be more accurate, what was said was "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.” (Let them eat brioche) and reputedly it was Marie Therese the wife of Louis XIV who said it. There’s no disputing however that the French love a good tea party!

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In afternoon tea, twist

Tea places with a twist

There’s nothing like going out for afternoon tea for a real luxury treat.

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In afternoon tea, recipes

What a Wonka Tea!

As a child I used to dream of visiting Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory. I read the book. I saw the film. Repeatedly. I would sit and plan who I would take with me, the fantastical rooms I would visit, how much I would eat and what I would do with a never ending gobstopper. The strangest thing was that until the age of sixteen I didn’t even like chocolate and I had never tried a gobstopper as my mum had a mortal fear that one might jar between my front teeth.

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In afternoon tea, underground tea rooms

Going Underground

There’s a new trend in taking tea and it’s coming to a dining room near you. Forget popping along to a fancy hotel, calling in to a country tea room or dropping in to your high street tea shop. Why not stay at home? No not yours, someone else’s!

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In afternoon tea, aldi

Part Two: Join us for a Jubilee tea review

Yesterday we showed you some pictures of our lovely Jubilee tea. Well now we have eaten, drank and digested so we are going to tell you what we thought of the products.

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