foodie_student_life

3 Simple Afternoon Tea Treats Who doesn’t love a good afternoon tea?! While the crazy lockdown world continues - we have just celebrated my Nan’s Birthday!! 🥳 It’s such as shame that were not allowed to go out and celebrate properly - I would have lived to take her out for a proper afternoon tea at one of the little cafes not far from where we live or out to one of our favourite restaurants, but it is what it is! I love making an extra effort, spoiling those I love and making them feel special so as per usual I threw everything at making sure she had a good day! I put together this ‘high afternoon tea’ which we enjoyed in the sunshine on a lovely May afternoon. With tea, bubbles, sandwhiches (egg and onion, cheese and cucumber and salmon with cream cheese) , a large strawberries and cream birthday cake, mini chocolate choux eclairs and of course scones with jam and clotted cream!!! Cream on first, controversial!!! To add to the spread and to give as much variety as possible I ...

 Simple Lemon Drizzle Baking is something I wish I could do more of. As a student it’s difficult to find ways of incorporating it into work and I’m often put off by expensive ingredient and recipes requiring things I’ve never even heard of let alone seen in the aisles of lidl. When I do manage to bake, the produce is either demolished by housemates in minutes or left around until its past its best (dependent on who’s in the house!!!) This simple lemon drizzle provides a perfect resolution: easily accessible ingredients and ability to be sacked up or down, it uses a pretty standard cake batter mix with the addition of lemon juice which can then be smothered in tasty drizzle Ingredients: For the Cake - 4/6/8 oz Caster Sugar 4/6/8 oz Butter (softened) 4/6/8 oz Self Raising Flour (preferably sifted but don’t worry if not) 2/3/4 Medium sized eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 lemon (juiced) For the Drizzle - 1 lemon (juiced) Approx. 6 tbsp Caster sugar (rough guide - best ...