Chocolate-, coffee- and pistachio-colored Chesterfields and swirly-shaped sofas are carefully positioned to offer maximum privacy, divided by towers of fresh hydrangeas and lilies. Tea is served in the lounge, with its handsome velvet arm chairs in sage green and ketchup red, jade-painted wooden panelling, jazz soundtrack and curated art–the collection in Dean Street includes pieces by Tracey Emin, Peter Blake, Fiona Banner and Mat Collishaw, alongside a number of emerging artists such as illustrator Dan Hillier. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. On the elegant sun-kissed veranda away from the hustle and bustle of the capital's streets nearby, the high tea is enjoyed overlooking the manicured Goring Garden, where some of the late Queen's favorite plants and flowers erupt out of the soil.

If you make a chocolate cake I would make simple vanilla (or chocolate if you’re going for a full chocolate dessert) buttercream frosting and then decorate the top with your favourite chocolates.There’s also a tea-tox option featuring low-carb, low-fat snacks, including miso-glazed salmon, beetroot crêpe and matcha-raspberry cheesecake. Sugar – I used caster sugar as I wanted the colour and flavour to stay light, but you an swap it to light brown soft sugar if you want a more caramel flavour naturally. Indulge the chocolate lovers in your life with their favourite sweet treats, or spoil them with a delectable food hamper stashed with mouth-watering goodies.

We recommend you add a cocktail (the Hendrick’s, cucumber, elderflower and Prosecco concoction is our favorite) to accompany your Earl Grey. Sunday Times Best Seller and achieved the status of the fastest-selling baking book ever, and her recipes have been featured in places such as the guardian, and cosmopolitan magazine. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. Shoemakers Foster and Son get a white-chocolate shoe horn and polish tin filled with a seasonal fruit trifle topped with Chantilly cream, while cigar aficionados James J Fox have a chocolate-and-hazelnut cigar tribute that comes in a smoky case.

To enjoy all that Hobbycraft has to offer, please enable cookies or check whether another programme is blocking them. Using cream cheese for a King Charles Coronation cake feels a bit weird, I know but trust me, once you’ve made cream cheese frosting, you’ll never go back to simple buttercream. The focal point is the glass counter lined with show-stopping baked goods, from sponge cakes and handmade biscuits to chocolate truffles, piped beautifully with rich icing in a vibrant mix of colors for you to drool over. Tucked away on an unassuming side street in Belgravia, there are even rumors of a secret tunnel linking the hotel to Buckingham Palace, so the Queen and co can slip in unnoticed. This consists of double cream, icing sugar and a little vanilla to flavour the cream, whipped to peaks and then spread and piped on.

Whether they consider themselves a coffee connoisseur or they have been a tea lover for years, we have Ringtons gift sets to suit every taste and preference. The Collet Brut Champagne (if you’re boozing) comes in a cut-glass coupe, the tea–of which there are 10 varieties from lapsang souchong to rooibos–in black-and-white floral-print Burleigh Pottery (a special commission for the Soho House group). Sandwiches are served with flavor twists such as egg mayo and truffle, more of which you’ll seriously consider forgoing the cakes for, and a tandoori take on coronation chicken. In previous years some of fashion’s great icons have also been served, most famously Anna Wintour, complete with signature bob and sunglasses, in biscuit form.

As I wanted this to be slightly different to the other traybake recipes on my blog already, and I really wanted to make something light and delicious, I used whipped cream. This quick and easy icing for biscuits and cookies also sets with a glossy layer and so it also makes an ideal edible glue for decorating your baking creations. Poster-board-sized candies or cookies, lots of cheerful color, and puffy white balloon bunches to create the feeling of “whipped cream” are some easy ideas. Come hungry–everything’s swiftly replenished the moment there’s space on the plate – but staff are more than happy to pack you off with a doggy bag if you’ve overdone it. If afternoon tea is the matinée performance, you might find yourself tempted to stick around for the late show too; as the pianist rolls out a gentle medley on the Steinway grand piano by the bar, it’s all too easy to let tea turn into evening drinks.