Entertain with Magic
Welcome to 17 Cherry Tree Lane! Create a Mary Poppins tea that is practically perfect in every way. Get our full menu, recipes, decor ideas, and activities you and your guests will love.
We were inspired by the lovely Victorian carousel scene in the film and created a tablescape to reflect some of the details: pink & white candy stripes, Mary Poppins’ parasol, lush flowers, and carousel horses.
The table was dressed in an off white linen tablecloth and a rose and cream striped table runner. Mounds of white and raspberry roses along with Annabelle hydrangeas from our garden served as our centerpiece. We arranged the raspberry roses in a pair of beautiful antique etched glass goblets.
Our off white china sat atop gold chargers. We served water out of crystal goblets and used our antique silverware to fit the Victorian theme. Off white linen napkins were adorned with a pink satin ribbon and gold carousel horse. A “spoon full of sugar” served as a favor at each place setting. Get our recipe to make these adorable edible favors.
We had a marvelous time creating a delicious and whimsical menu for our Mary Poppins tea party. Get the recipes below.
We created two tasty tea sandwiches to begin our tea. The first was cucumber with herbed cream cheese serve atop a pumpernickel rye round. The second was egg salad and pea shoots served on white. We paired our sandwiches with herbed cream cheese stuffed cherry tomatoes and cucumber slices. Get our favorite tea sandwich recipes here.
Scones are a classic favorite for tea parties. Our family loves raspberries so we whipped up a batch of delicious raspberry cream scones. They are moist on the inside and crumbly on the outside, sweet and buttery, and bursting with flavor. Yum! We served the scones with some homemade raspberry-rhubard preserves and fresh whipped cream. Get our recipe here.
These adorable carousel cupcakes as delicious as they are pretty. The fluffy vanilla cupcakes are topped with sweet lavender buttercream and topped with pretty gold carousel toppers. Get our carousel cupcake tutorial.
We adore the carousel scene in Mary Poppins and just had to include a parasol dessert! These sugar cookies get some extra special attention with white and pink royal icing and tiny pink buttercream flowers. They were light, delicate and perfect with raspberry tea!
We are huge fans of Sally’s Baking Addiction’s lemon blueberry cake and used her recipe to create these adorable lavender cake pops. They were sprinkled with some magic dust and were utterly delightful. We highly recommend Sally’s cake pop tutorial. It’s surprisingly easy and yields perfect cake pops every time.
We are always looking for an excuse to make macarons and this tea was the perfect opportunity! We used the recipe from Sally’s Baking Addiction and it is excellent! We colored our macarons light pink and filled them with pink buttercream. To add a magical touch, we dusted them with edible gold glitter. They were absolutely heavenly – light as a feather and sweet with a creamy center. Divine! Get Sally’s recipe here.
The star of the show was these adorable mini hat cakes! They are easy to make and sooooo yummy. The cakes are made up of three layers of raspberry cream cake with raspberry filling sandwiched between them. Then they are enveloped with fluffy vanilla frosting and decorated with rose colored buttercream sashes & flowers which are embellished with candy pearls. Get our recipe here.
I’ve saved my absolute favorite for last! It just wouldn’t be proper to host a Mary Poppins tea without a spoon full of sugar! We created these dainty little “Spoon Full of Sugar” cake bites and served them on miniature spoons. Each guest enjoyed one at their place setting. They were such fun to create, display, and serve! Get our tutorial with shopping links here.
Our family is in the process of traveling around the world through Disney movies. To see our other destinations click here.
Our family enjoys learning about the culture and geography of each destination in our Around the World with Disney Movies series and this was no exception. We are experiential learners and love immersing ourselves through listening, reading, and hands-on activities! Below are some resources that we recommend.
Mary Poppins Chalk Pastel Tutorial from You Art An Artist
London’s Tower Bridge Drawing Tutorial from Draw Stuff Real Easy
London Skyline Painting from AnnaC Paints
Read about musical works inspired by London from Classic FM
Learn about Handel’s Water Music with Classics for Kids
Listen to Haydn’s London Symphonies performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Eugen Jochum