Easy Afternoon Tea Sweets Bites and Teacakes

"Scrumptious coconut cake topped with beautiful buttercream rosettes creates an impressive dessert in Mini Coconut Cakes."

“Strawberry Jam Cake utilizes strawberry jam in the fluffy cake and cream cheese frosting. It’s a quick go-to recipe to celebrate strawberries any time of the year.”

Serve these delicious Coconut Cream Tartlets with Italian Meringue as a welcome sweet treat at your next tea party.

These delightful Lavender Earl Grey Tea Cakes combine floral and citrus notes in a soft, tender mini bundt cake dessert. They’re perfect for afternoon tea, a garden party, or a sweet finish to any meal.

Strawberry bread is an incredibly moist and tender quick bread recipe that takes minutes to prep. Filled with fresh strawberries this lemon-glazed strawberry bread is an indulgent, delicious treat.

This easy berry-topped Pound Cake recipe takes inspiration from a classic pound cake but simplifies the ingredients and method to create an easy-to-make, rich, buttery, and tender cake you won’t soon forget!

"A decadent Orange Buttercream Frosting crowns a deliciously tender Orange Cake to create an impressive and oh-so-satisfying dessert for a celebratory afternoon tea or birthday party."

"Minutes to make, these Chocolate Mousse in Chocolate Cups are delectable treats chocolate lovers will appreciate."

This Orange Cake is a soft, moist, iced loaf cake with bright citrus flavors. Easy to make without a mixer, it’s a treat you won’t soon forget! Perfect for celebrations, gifting, or simply when craving an easy treat packed with delicious flavor.

Mini Lemon Pudding Cakes are a refreshing, melt-in-your-mouth, lemony dream. Simple and quick to make, this dessert magically forms two layers when baked. A light and airy cake on top with a lemon pudding custard on the bottom.

"Our irresistible custard tarts take just 10 minutes to prepare. Who could resist that slight wobble and golden sheen?”

These Chocolate Ganache Mini Tarts are a chocolate lover's dream. A tender toasted almond shortbread crust is filled with an irresistible chocolate ganache that's so easy, you won't believe it.

“Chocolate Biscuit Cake, a simple confection made with tea biscuits and chocolate ganache, is a modern-day favorite of both Queen Elizabeth II and her grandson, Prince William. The queen always made sure it was on the menu whenever her grandson came for tea at Buckingham Palace. Prince William likes it so much that he requested it as the groom’s cake for his 2011 wedding to Kate Middleton.”

“Serve panna cotta with berries and fresh fruit, granola, milk crumbs, and simple cookies. You can also drizzle panna cotta with chocolate sauce, jam, or caramel. Really, anything goes!”

This Lavender Tea Bread is a moist and sweet tea loaf, perfect for afternoon tea or simply to celebrate when the lavender blooms. Delightfully rich with butter and lavender cream, and unforgettable with the vanilla flavoring.

Shortbread Tea Cookies with Lemon Curd, topped with fresh blueberries, are tiny bites of perfection. Petit and perfectly sized for afternoon tea, they are melt-in-your-mouth delicious.

Surprisingly easy, these Quark Mini Cheesecakes or German Käsekuchen are delightful and perfect for afternoon tea. Top with fresh seasonal berries.

These Mini Blueberry Tarts with Lemon Curd are an easy to make teatime treat or summer dessert. Inspired by a favorite French boulangerie offering that I’ve tweaked and simplified, it’s a simple recipe you’ll love using only three ingredients and made in 30 minutes.

This skinny, light dessert takes 10 minutes to make. Perfect for afternoon tea, any time of the year.

These Almond Tea Cakes are delicate, buttery, light and tender treats, perfect for tea parties, afternoon snacks, or anytime you’re craving a sweet bite. Simple to make in a muffin tin for now or make ahead for later.

This simple Almond Cake is an Almond Anytime Cake. Simple, incredibly moist, and delicious. A buttery, slightly sweet snacking cake perfect for teatime, breakfast, or midnight cravings.

“Blueberry-Basil Tartlets filled with juicy blueberries and fresh herbs.”

“This fresh and fragrant Berries and Cream delight mixes strawberries and raspberries with whipping cream spiked with raspberry liqueur.”

This recipe for Blueberry Banana Bread is a tender, delicious quick bread filled with blueberries. Perfect for the season, made with Greek yogurt and seasoned with cinnamon.

Tiny, bite-size Pecan Tassies are a delicious, chewy, and decadent pecan-filled pastry with a cookie-like crust. This southern-inspired treat is an all-time favorite, and incredibly simple to make for the holidays, or anytime you’re craving pecan pie.

A simple recipe made with dates, pantry ingredients, and brewed English Breakfast tea.

“Tropical Coconut and fresh blackberries come together beautifully in these light and dreamy cupcakes! You’ll love the combination of flavors, along with the sweet cream cheese frosting.”

"Made simple in a mini Bundt pan, these Carrot Pound Cakes are a perfect sweet treat for afternoon tea."

“This easy macaron recipe is a basic one, with a few extra tips to help a beginner on their way.”

"Beautiful and delicate Iced Almond Petal Cookies make an elegant dessert to serve for the sweets course of afternoon tea."

"These chocolate biscuits are great for an impromptu afternoon tea.”

Teatime was never more delicious than with these easy Lemon Meringue Cookies. Made from whisked egg whites and lemon flavor, these tiny bites are slightly crisp on the outside and soft, melt-in-your-mouth delicious in the middle.

These Lemon Poppy Seed Shortbread Cookies are rich and buttery cookies with a bright hint of lemon and nutty undertones of poppy seeds. If you’re a shortbread fan, you will absolutely love these simple cookies for snacking or teatime.

“Thumbprint cookies are a great teatime sweet to have in your repertoire. The flavors of the cookie and filling can be mixed and matched to suit your event, but this Strawberry-Orange Thumbprint Cookie recipe is one of our favorites.”

“These Glazed Lemon Cookies are full of zesty citrus flavor.”

Butter Lemon Tea Cookies are a delightfully simple, sweet and soft wafer-like cookie with a beautiful lemon flavor. All you need is a cup of tea and your afternoon just became a bit brighter. An easy, traditional recipe that keeps or freezes well.

Vanilla Tea Cake Cookies are a simple buttery, soft vanilla tea cookie perfect for afternoon tea. Much like Scottish Shortbread, the ingredients are simple, but the texture and vanilla flavors are deliciously unforgettable.

This Victoria Sponge Cake is an afternoon teacake recipe, favored by Queen Elizabeth, with a long British royal heritage. An easy-to-make, simple two-layer cake that's lightly sweet, soft, and perfect!

“This lovely Vanilla, Sour Cream & Poppy-Seed Bundt Cake is the centerpiece of a festive afternoon tea.”

White Chocolate Raspberry Bundt Cake is a scrumptious, velvety cake with the flavors of summer. An easy-to-make popular bakery favorite.

This Strawberry Bundt Cake Recipe with Lemon Glaze is utterly delicious with fresh strawberries and lemon. A tender and moist texture from Greek yogurt make it irresistible and perfect for the season. 

This French Lemon Curd Tart is inspired by a Tarte au Citron, or French Lemon Tart. It’s a creamy, slightly tangy lemon custard filling baked in a crisp, buttery shortbread crust. It’s incredibly simple to make, and utterly delicious!

This easy Lemon Drizzle Cake is a beautiful recipe, perfect for days when you're craving a decadently tender dessert with abundant lemon flavoring. Or when you're looking for a traditional tea cake you know everyone will love.

This Lemon Pound Cake is velvety soft, moist, buttery, and tender. Flavored with fresh lemon zest and juice, it's an easy to make cake that's absolutely spring perfect.

Apple Spice Visiting Cake is a buttery and moist fall cake with autumn spices that permeate every bite. It's a simple cake, with simple ingredients, to have ready for guests, or to bring to a favorite friend.

This top-rated Lemon Drizzle Cake recipe is perfect for afternoon tea in any season.

This simple Berry Trifle Recipe is a super quick and easy layered dessert of fresh summer berries, delicious pound cake, and heavenly pastry cream.

This Strawberry Napoleon is a 4-ingredient, 15-minute dessert that’s fresh, pretty, and perfect for a spur-of-the-moment treat!