Have your cake and eat it with Britain Loves Baking Academy  Half Day Traditional Afternoon Tea Masterclass.  This is the perfect way to make your cake & eat it and do something different with family and friends. Not only will you learn to make your own afternoon tea, including a range of British cakes, sandwiches, pastries and scones.

Our founder , Greg Wixted and Head Pastry chef will be you instructors for the session, they have created over 23,000 afternoon teas in 2024 alone and won many award for their  Alice in Wonderland and Bridgeton, they have been named purpose caterer three years in a row and Greg is writing his second book which is all about afternoon tea from around the world, The Afternoon Tea Chronicle’s will be released later this year.

You will be working in small groups to create the recipes. As a whole class, you will make everything listed on the website but the only way we can cover the huge variety of dishes listed is by dividing the class into smaller groups.  When there are key skills that need to be learned by the whole class, the teacher will pause and bring you all together as a group as the skill is explained.

Just before we serve afternoon tea there will be time to bring it all together, but first, a visit to the wonderland stock and prop rooms, which are tiny but packed floor to ceiling with crockery, cutlery, displayware, and table props, and table covers, the team will guide you through laying the table and some simple styling tips and its time to pop open a bottle of HM the Kings Highgrove Estate Sparking Rose

At the end of the class, you all get to sit and enjoy what you have made with tea and a glass or two of English fizz, and our founder will join you so you can ask as many questions as you like, before you leave, you will be presented with

• A framed and signed certificate of achievement
• One of our academy aprons
• A snippet of Greg's new Afternoon Tea Recipe book, with his top two favourite afternoon tea menus and over 20 recipes
• Take group photo's, if you wish, but please ask for permission 

You Will Learn to make in your morning sessions 

Savoury breads, fillings & tarts 

• Mini Brioche loaves
• Finger bread rolls, white and wholemeal
• Egg mayo
• Smoked salmon, lemon & dill cream cheese
  
• Chive, chicken, and grape in Lemon & tarragon mayo
• Cream cheese and cucumber
• Asparagus tart, mushroom and truffle tart

Scones made with a magic ingredient 

•  Our famous lemonade scones, lemon and fruit
• How to make whipped clotted cream
•  Bonus scone, dill & beetroot scone, which we will fill later

Sweet treats and afternoon tea classics 

•  The royal biscuit cake recipe with a twist
•   HM Queen Elizabeth Balmoral shortbread vanilla and raspberry
•   G&T Drizzle cake
•   Apple caramel meringue tarts

Tea, coffee, water and juice are available throughout the session, help yourself.