As promised yesterday, here are the rest of the details from Vera’s pink and gold tea party!

I’ve been wanting to make a ruffled cake for a long time, and this party was the perfect excuse!  The cake was homemade chocolate and the frosting was buttercream.

I used some pieces from my collection (the tea cups on the left and all the tea pots) as well as some thrifted tea cups and saucers so that everyone could drink their beverage of choice from a pretty cup!

The gold edged tea cups were perfect (and only cost $.45 each!).

I served vanilla sugar for people to stir into their tea and coffee!

I also made petit fours, and they turned out pretty well.

The peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were popular with the kids!

We had veggies and fruit too (brought by MiMi and Grammy), so there were healthy choices in addition to all the sweets.

Here was the party menu:
-marinated ham biscuits
-croissants with chicken salad (chicken, Greek yogurt, green onions, salt & pepper)
-peanut butter and jelly sandwiches
-cucumber sandwiches
-veggies
-fruit/dip
-vanilla scones
-petit fours
-tea pot sugar cookies
-chocolate cake with pink buttercream frosting
-tea/coffee/iced tea/sparkling pink lemonade

I decorated the breakfast nook a little bit too.

I made crepe paper flowers and was happy that they turned out so well!  The looked almost real!

For favors, we gave little boxes of fancy chocolates/caramels.

Didn’t my mom do a lovely job with the tea pot cookies?  They were delicious too!

I hope Vera cherishes many sweet memories from her tea party!