The Tea Party
My Favorite time is Tea Time. 🙂
Especially a Valentine’s Day Tea with my Mom!
I would have never guessed, that I would be spending a day with my mom just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Last year she sent me and the boys a Valentin’s Day Tea in a box. We were so delighted to receive her package last year.
So, I was even more delighted to hear that my mom and dad were visiting Phoenix for a week, and my mom suggesting that we have a little tea party! She posted about the party here if you want to see all of our fun.
We had our party at Kathy’s house and were able to use Kathy’s amazingly beautiful Hungarian china. This china came from Hungry with her and her family, when they immigrated and holds a European beauty that I haven’t seen in most traditional pieces of china.
My mom and I played with different recipe ideas and finally decided to do a Rose Water theme. I made Rose Water Vanilla Tea Scones. My mom made a Rose Water Tea Cake. For her recipe you may click here. This is a beautiful four layer sponge cake with whip cream and raspberry filling, and a rose water glaze for the top. It was so moist and the flavor of the rose water was the perfect combination with the whip cream and raspberries. I couldn’t imagine anything more lovely with our tea.
The Scones were very scrumptious. I think they might be a regular staple in our household. The Rose Water paired beautifully with the Vanilla in the Scone. I usually have some kind of fruit, but this time the scone didn’t need any help and could hold their own.
I hope you enjoy this recipe and have a Rosie Valentine’s Day Tea Party for yourself!
Happy Valentine’s Day to you 🙂
There is something about that special moment of time, when you sit down, fill the tea pot with boiling water and select a beautiful piece of music like this piece or perhaps this one to listen to. It can be one of the most peaceful moments of the day!
Rose Water Vanilla Scones
2 Cups Flour
1/3 Cup Sugar
1 Vanilla Bean
1 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/4 teaspoon Baking Soda
1/2 teaspoon Salt
8 Tablespoons Butter Frozen if you can
1 Cup Sour Cream
1 Egg
Adjust oven rack to lower-middle position and preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a medium bowl, mix flour, 1/3 cup sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt
Grate butter into flour mixture with pastry cutter tool. I use my fingers to work butter into flour so as to encourage mixture to resemble coarse crumbs. Add the Vanilla bean to the mixture and stir till combined.
In a small bowl, whisk cream and egg until egg is dissolved.
Using a fork, stir sour cream and egg mixture into flour mixture until large dough clumps form.
Use your hands to press the dough against the bowl into a ball. (The dough will be sticky in places, and there may not seem to be enough liquid at first, but as you press, the dough will come together)
Place on a lightly floured surface and pat into 2 circles about 3/4-inch thick. With a sharp knife cut 4 triangle shapes out of each circle. I ended up cutting 8 triangle slices to make mini scones.
Sprinkle some sugar over the scones and place in the oven to bake until golden brown, about 14-17 minutes, depending how large your scones are.
Rose Water Glaze
1 Cup Powdered Sugar
1/2 teaspoon Rose Water
1 teaspoon Lemon Juice
1 -2 Tablespoons water
Use any natural food coloring you have.
Hi I’m Marie and thanks for stopping by! I am a lover for anything pretty and sweet.I love being in my kitchen and I love it even more when I have something yummy baking in the oven. Collecting old and new china is a bad habit of mine and I do this by visiting an antique or thrift store ever so often. 
Okay, I have your music link playing and I am enjoying your post completely. I am still tasting these in my memory..so, so, good!!
Love you,
Mom
Forgot to add that your pictures are so lovely.
Love you Mom! Thank you for the wonderful party! You have brought me up on your beautiful tea parties and I now realize it has effected my entire life! Love you so much!!!
Talk about making me miss you!!! So happy you all did a party! I cannot wait to try the Rose Water! I love you Sis!
Oh well, I know that we will be having ourselves a many tea parties together whenever we come back to Florida! LOVE YOU
These are making my mouth water! I wish we lived closer, so we all could bake together! These look so amazing Marie!
Scones make tea time just that much better!
Miss you dear friend!
Hugs,
Amy
I would love to bake with you Amy! I think of all the fun we would have while the boys were out playing! Sure miss you.
love you
~ Marie
Your tea party has inspired me to have one of my own! And I’m definitely going to try out these scones for it. Thanks for sharing it 🙂
Oh I hope you post about your party Kirsteen! I am definitely looking forward to a scottish tea from you!
I’m sorry if I’m looking right at it and not seeing it, but where is the vanilla added? :-/
Oh so sorry about that. Yes you can add the Vanilla to the dry ingredients just before you add the wet. I can’t stand it when I leave out such an important ingredient like that. Apologies 🙂
Thank you – can I ask how much you used? 😉
I used the whole vanilla bean. If you don’t have a vanilla bean you can use 1-2 teaspoons of vanilla extract.
Thank you so very much. I’m looking forward to these. 🙂
Thank you Morgandy! I hope you like them!
Good Morning.
I am so excited about this amazing and elegant scone recipe Marie. I love tea time myself. I always feel that it refreshes me. I have my tea time right about 3:00 most days.
When the children were little, I would ask them what time is it? And they would say Tea Time!!
Your party looked very yummy and oh so special!
Putting on the Ritz…
Love, Roxy
I love it! Loved your moms post too!
Thanks Daisy!
These Rose Water Scones look wonderful. Am anxious to try them.
I do have another question of one of you other recipes. Cream Cheese Pumpkin Tea Cake.
I have never cooked with coconut oil before. The recipe calls for 1/2 cup. Is that melted or solid.
Hi Carol, that is a great question, you can warm it a little till it is a liquid form. I love using coconut oil for baking but you can easily use any other oil you usually like to use.
I just made these yesterday to take to a Christmas get-together with family. They were such a hit!
Absolutely everyone loved them. My kids & husband declared that I had to make more since we didn’t get to bring home any leftovers.
So off to the kitchen I go to make another batch! 🙂