Comida y Salud: All About Baking: Gluten-free Tea Party

This past Saturday I threw a super cute and fun Tea Party for my lovely sister-in-law, Kristen's birthday! The theme was Alice in Wonderland, with small and large tea pots and a variety of teas and goodies.

Kristen and I

Here's what the invitation said:

Alice: Unbirthday? I'm sorry, but I don't quite understand.
March Hare: It's very simple. Now, thirty days has Septem -No. wait... An unbirthday, if you have a birthday, then you -
March Hare: She doesn't know what an unbirthday is.

Join us for Kristen's 27th birthday party as we celebrate in style, mad style. According to Cheshire Cat, most everyone is mad here. So, for the madness we are going to have a beautiful tea party accompanied by a tasty spread and give wonderful gifts. This will be an Alice in Wonderland themed party (in case you haven't noticed yet), but don't be alarmed all that requires of you is to wear a dress and not be late for this very important date :)

Mad Hatter: Would you like a little more tea?
Alice: Well, I haven't had any yet, so I can't very well take more.
March Hare: Ah, you mean you can't very well take less.

Mad Hatter: Yes, you can always take more than nothing.

This Tea Party was not just any tea party, it was a Gluten-free Tea Party. It was my first time baking gluten-free. I made homemade scones, tartlets, cucumber sandwiches, chocolate cupcakes, lemon curd, and devonshire cream.

The Scones (click for recipe)
This recipe turned out beautifully. You would never know these little things were gluten free. They tasted scrumptious.

Kristen had the cutest flower shaped liners to place them in.

The Tartlets

This recipe turned out beautifully. Tasted more like a shortbread cookie, but did the job very well.

The Cucumber Sandwich

*Gluten free bread cut with a rabbit shaped cookie cutter, sliced cucumbers, dill cream cheese*

The Chocolate Cupcakes

*The recipe was not a choice recipe

*The cupcake was sticky and stuck to the paper

*The icing did a good job of hiding the stickiness

*Next time I would not use a cookbook, but rather a 5 star rated recipe from the internet like I did with the others

blurry, but you can see it is sticky

Stuck to the wrapper

Still cute though

The Lemon Curd

* I love Lemon curd, and it is so easy to make

*Also refrigerates for a long time, like a jam

The Devonshire Cream

YUM YUM YUM

So, tasty! This was the best part and goes so well with scones!

Whipped cream, cream cheese... does it get much better?

The Decorations

My two tea cups from Turkey (the pink and blue), my mini Mexican tea set, and 2 antique tea cups from Debbie Gosney set with yellow carnations on a platter. Dressed with my yellow Turkish pashmina and a purple scarf.

Kristen's antique Hall tea pot, my baby mug, Italian tea cup, Limoge mini tea pot, Hummel mini tea set, Malaysian pewter mini tea pot, and kid tea pot and tea cup. Dressed with 2 Turkish pashminas (you can't see from this angle) and scarf from Thailand (a gift from my friend, Maureen)