This Low Tea Menu would appeal to Alice and all the guests of your Mad Tea Party! She is starving so that she would eat most anything! Miss Party has made a simple Low Tea Menu of suggestions for specific types of sandwiches and other dishes, but certainly feel free to substitute. Adjust it to fit the age of your guests or dietary issues and don’t hesitate to ease your cooking burden on the day of your party by having a good, nearby caterer prepare your tea sandwiches or a bakery take care of some of your baked goods. Alice simply can’t stand a party martyr!
‘MAD TEA PARTY’ LOW TEA MENU:
As guests arrive, offer:
French Lemonade in drink dispenser with raspberries and lemon slices
Large bowl of Popcorn or Kettle Corn or do a POPcorn Bar
Luncheon Menu:
The Mad Hatter’s Mixed-up Tea Sandwiches: seafood salad, tuna salad, chicken salad, egg salad, cucumber and cream cheese; mixed deli sandwiches on mini croissants, such as turkey, ham and swiss, and roast beef (deli meats are a good choice if guests are teens)
Dormouse’s Heavenly Deviled Eggs
Bowls of cut watermelon cubes, cut cantaloupe cubes, grapes
and/or
The March Hare’s Fresh Mixed Berry Salad
Plate of Mini Scones, with accompanying strawberry preserves and homemade whipped cream
Dessert:
“Eat Me” Cupcakes – Red Velvet cupcakes with white Buttercream Icing; Vanilla or Lemon Cupcakes with white Buttercream Icing (flat icing layer with a disc of fondant with “EAT ME” written on each) – if possible, purchase a decorative cupcake tree to hold the cupcakes, or place them neatly in rows on platters
Plates of a variety of tea cookies
Plates of the Queen of Heart’s Favorites – Raspberry Tartlets (a good bakery can provide), Chess Squares which are powdered Lemon Squares cut into small 2-bite squares, and Heart-shaped Petite Palmiers
Mini powdered donuts, donut holes or other small, sweet pastry in glass cannister
Extra large strawberries dipped in dark and white chocolate
Bowls of cut watermelon cubes, cut cantaloupe cubes, grapes
Beverages:
Hot Tea: prepare hot water in several teapots for a server to pour for the guests
On the table, offer a variety of teas, sugar, sugar substitute, cream
Iced Tea
CREDITS:
Tea Sandwiches: Roche Brothers
Cupcakes and Raspberry Tarts: Dessert Works Bakery
Photography: Tessa Komine
