CREAM OF THE CROP

TRY THESE TREATS TO HAVE WITH YOUR BREW TO MARK AFTERNOON TEA WEEK (AUGUST 9-15)

Orange and Passion Fruit Curd, £1.90, Sainsbury’s

Summer in a jar, spread this delicious curd onto warm scones for an afternoon delight.

Irresistible Salted Caramel Profiteroles, 135g, £3, Co-op

Raise your afternoon tea game with these profiteroles filled with a rich Belgian chocolate mousse and drizzled with salted caramel sauce, and finished with a sprinkling of crunchy cocoa nibs.

Letterbox Brownies £12, M&S

If you can’t be together for afternoon tea then send this box of brownie treats. Choose from salted caramel, chocolate and orange or indulgent chocolate.

Bolands Jam Mallows 89p, B&M Stores

Afternoon tea does not have to be costly. Indulge yourself with these soft crumbly biscuits topped with pink mallow and raspberry flavour jam and sprinkled with coconut.

Rodda’s Classic Cornish Clotted Cream

RRP £2.30 for a 227g tub, Tesco, Waitrose, Sainsburys, Co-op, Asda and Morrisons No afternoon tea would be complete without clotted cream and Rodda’s has been producing it in Cornwall for over 130 years.

Loaded Caramel and Honeycomb Cookie Dough Dessert £3.25, Tesco

Gooey cookie dough baked with milk chocolate chunks then loaded with a rich caramel sauce, white chocolate drizzle and honeycomb pieces.

No 1 Carrot & Passionfruit Cake was £5.25, now £4.20, Waitrose

You can’t beat a slice of moist carrot cake and this is topped with rich cream cheese and passion fruit frosting and drizzled with passion fruit curd.