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Home » Holidays & Seasonal » Spring and Easter

Easter Tea Party

Modified: Aug 31, 2024 · Published: Mar 30, 2013 by Dannyelle Nicolle-Ramjist · This post may contain affiliate links · 2 Comments

Easter Tea Party: decoration ideas like a wheat grass centrepiece, a tea party menu, and recipes for the perfect Easter celebration.

Easter tea party ideas and menu.
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Yesterday we hosted a little Easter Tea Party for lunch, with lots of family favourites, that I thought I'd share. A big turkey or ham traditional Easter dinner  is great, but this made for a nice change and it was so, so yummy.

how to host an Easter Tea Party

Easter Tea Party Decor

I set up the party in the dinning room. Our fun centre piece was a tray of wheat grass that we'd been growing for about a week and half.

I wanted to do a large trough style planter for Easter, but couldn't find a container large and shallow enough to suit. What's a blogger to do...make their own. I found some scrap wood in the basement, cut it, screwed it together and gave it a little white wash of paint. It's a little wonky, but we'll call it rustic. 😉 I lined it with a plastic bag, and soaked and sprouted my wheat grass.

It grew really quickly, and is such a welcome sight of green this time of year when we're itching to get out into the garden, but it's not quite time yet around here. I added a few little butterflies for fun.

wheat grass Easter centrepiece
Easter real grass centrepiece

I also used some pretty hurricane vases, I've had for years, and added some sweet Easter egg filler from the dollar store.

Since I already had pink and blue on the table, I decided to go with all the pastel Easter colours and used these pretty polka dot plates. And, aren't the cute Easter napkins sweet? Love how the grass on them related to the centre piece too.

Easter Tea Party
Easter Tea Party ideas

I used pretty pink depression glass tea cups and pulled out all the matching serving pieces too.

Easter Tea Party menu

Easter Tea Party Menu

Tea Sandwiches

  • cucumber sandwiches
  • chicken salad toast cups
  • egg salad on a mini croissant
  • olive tapenade, goat's cheese and roasted red pepper sandwiches
  • veggies and dip
  • pickles

We started with finger sandwiches, veggies and dip, and some pickles. We had cucumber with cream cheese, chicken salad cups -see our recipe here, egg salad on mini croissants, and olive tapenade, goat's cheese and roasted red pepper sandwiches on a baguette. They were all so, so good.

cucumber tea sandwiches
what to serve at an Easter Tea Party
Easter Tea Party ideas

Scones With Clotted Cream and Jam

Many years ago, when I was only 18, I lived in England for a year for school. I was introduced to cream teas; beautiful scones, served with butter, jams, and clotted cream. It was love at first taste. It can be tricky to find clotted cream here, but for my local readers, I found it at the Metro.  And you can find my favourite and easy food processor scone recipe here.  I've been making them for years and years, they are tested and true.

tea party creamed tea
Easter Tea Party menu

Sweet Treats

  • shortbread
  • chocolate nest cookies
  • mini jam tarts
  • butter tarts
  • chocolate cheese cake eggs
  • jelly beans

We also had some other sweets. I made these classic shortbread cookie bars, and these sweet chocolate coconut oatmeal nests, an Easter favourite. I also made some little tarts, some mini jam ones, and some butter tarts with raisins. The other little treat was these precious chocolate cheese cake eggs. I was inspired by Steph at Raspberri Cupcakes, and used her recipe for the cheesecake filling. For the centre I used a little pear jam, with a few drops of yellow food colouring. The guests oh-ed and awe-ed over them. And they were really easy, and since they're no-cook, my 8 year old daughter did most of it herself.

chocolate Easter egg cheesecakes
chocolate Easter egg cheesecake

Everything was washed down with lots of tea. It was so yummy, and with all these pretty pastels, it made it feel like spring which I'm sure is coming any day now. 😉

how to host an Easter Tea Party

With an Easter Tea Party like this, life really is a party! Happy Easter!

You might also like our Easter Finger Foods Brunch here.

Easter Finger Foods Brunch: the perfect, no fuss Easter brunch menu with breakfast finger foods and Easter table decor ideas.

Also check out our Chocolate Mousse Easter Eggs recipe here.

Chocolate Mousse Easter Eggs -Easy Chocolate Mousse Recipe: the perfect Easter dessert, chocolate mousse piped into hollow chocolate Easter eggs.

You might also enjoy our Easter Bunny Breakfast here.

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  1. dnr says

    March 30, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    Thanks so much Cynthia, it was a lot of fun!

  2. Cynthia says

    March 30, 2013 at 9:37 am

    I love the Tea Brunch,. What an inspiration you are to me 🙂 So Charming, so much thought went into the tablescape and food. I imagine your guests were thrilled to be there.

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