High tea recipes

From chocolate and beetroot cake to blini with smoked trout, put the kettle on because it's high time for high tea time treats.

William Meppem

Add a touch of British tradition to your day with a high tea. Cucumber sandwiches, bite-size sweets and fluffy scones with jam and cream are only the beginning. Jolly good.

Meyer lemon and olive oil cakes

Meyer lemon and olive oil cakes

Sugar-crusted vanilla pound cake

Sugar-crusted vanilla pound cake

Chestnut cakes with raisins, pine nuts and honey

Chestnut cakes with raisins, pine nuts and honey

Zucchini pa amb tomàquet

Zucchini pa amb tomàquet

Chocolate and beetroot cake

Chocolate and beetroot cake

Caviar with herb sandwiches

Caviar with herb sandwiches

Blueberry upside-down pavlovas

Blueberry upside-down pavlovas

Frustingo

Frustingo

Blini with smoked trout, herbed crème fraîche and fennel salad

Blini with smoked trout, herbed crème fraîche and fennel salad

Cherry clafoutis tartlets with candied almond ice-cream

Cherry clafoutis tartlets with candied almond ice-cream

Devilled eggs with celery and coriander salt

Devilled eggs with celery and coriander salt

Little lime meringue cakes

Little lime meringue cakes

Crab and cucumber cocktail sandwiches

Crab and cucumber cocktail sandwiches

Strawberry and watermelon cake

Strawberry and watermelon cake

Raspberry meringue cakes with amaretto cream

Raspberry meringue cakes with amaretto cream

Amore di polenta (polenta cake)

Amore di polenta (polenta cake)

Yeast cakes with apple marmellata and ricotta

Yeast cakes with apple marmellata and ricotta

Roast apricot, almond and quinoa cakes

Roast apricot, almond and quinoa cakes

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