Making the Perfect Afternoon Tea - High Pavement Learning Centre, Sutton-in-Ashfield - Adult Learning

About this course

You will learn how to plan, prepare and serve a traditional afternoon tea, including scones, finger sandwiches, treats and cakes.

This is a practical course that will include food preparation and baking as well as tips on how to present a classic afternoon tea.

On this course, you will explore the history of afternoon tea, learn how to brew the perfect cup, plan a delightful afternoon tea menu, master the art of making finger sandwiches and baking scones, create a variety of sweet treats, present and serve afternoon tea with elegance, and understand how to cost your offerings effectively.

What you will need to bring to the course:

You will need ingredients to prepare sandwiches and cakes. You will be advised prior to the first week and then at each session what you will need for the following week. Please bring something to take your edible items away in, an apron, a tie back for long hair, and wear sensible shoes.

Suggested reading for this course:

1) Secret Tea Party by Kerstin Rodgers

2) How to Run a Pop Restaurant by Abigail and William Alldis

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.