Afternoon high-tea celebration

A little afternoon spoil for my female cousins and I to get together to celebrate my aunt's 70th birthday.

Out of the boxes came my pretty little tea-cups, tea pots, and cake stands. Into the fridge went the bubbly, cream and caviar (I just can't enough of this yummy salty, mouth-popping roe!).

Jo and I spent the morning preparing a lovely afternoon treat of dainty cucumber sandwiches, salmon on a dill and spring-onion cream-cheese spread topped with caviar, hot out-of-the-oven savoury scones as well as plain scones with clotted cream and black-cherry jam, profiteroles stuffed full of cream and vanilla custard, and baby goats cheese and beetroot thyme tarts. Served with pots of Yorkshire Gold tea, fresh mint & lemon water, and a glass of two of Charles Heidsieck Champagne.

Savoury scones, profiteroles & cucumber sandwiches

Salmon on a dill and spring-onion cream-cheese spread topped with caviar

We left the men to their own devices, which no doubt involved beer and rugby.