20 Best Tea Sandwiches To Have In The Morning

Tomato sandwiches for tea might sound a little drab, but it is perfect for serving a crowd. This classic tea sandwich packs a flavorful punch thanks to the red onion and cream cheese summer sauce. It is also crunchy from the toasted bread slices.

Combine basil, parsley, mint, garlic, olive oil, salt, and lemon to create the brightest herby summer sauce. After that, mix it with cream cheese and a pinch of salt and spread the mixture over the toasted bread slices.

Place one tomato slice and about 1/4 cup onion slices and sprinkle evenly with remaining salt. Cut in half and serve.

Another classic tea sandwich is a cucumber sandwich. No one can resist a light, refreshing cucumber sandwich to start their afternoon tea. Paper-thin cucumbers, dill, and chive cream cheese spread are sandwiched between crustless bread.

English cucumbers are ideal for this recipe as the seeds are small and delicate. You can keep the peel for color or peel it off. For the sandwich spread, you can go for anything you like, but cream cheese and mayo should do the trick.

Season your spread with garlic powder, onion salt, Worcestershire sauce, and a sprinkling of lemon pepper.

If a cucumber sandwich feels a bit plain, you can always make a smoked salmon cucumber sandwich. The added protein gives the sandwich an earthier flavor, but it is still light and refreshing. They are the perfect flavorful bite and take less than 15 minutes to assemble.

It is best to make these sandwiches right before serving as the bread can go soggy or dry out if you make it ahead and store it in the refrigerator. Spread a fresh dill garlic cream cheese over some bread and top it with cucumber and smoked salmon.

Ham and cheese sandwiches with tea are a tried and true favorite and easy to make. These cute bite-sized sandwiches will impress even the pickiest of guests. There is no cooking involved. You just have to prepare the ingredients and assemble them.

To elevate the look of your sandwich, use a cookie cutter to get the perfect circular bread, cheese, and ham.

After that, assemble in this order: bread, mayo, ham, mustard, cheese, Japanese mayo, bread, mayo, ham, mustard, cheese, mayo, bread. This sandwich tastes nothing like your basic ham and cheese sandwich thanks to the Japanese mayo.

There are plenty of recipes for egg salad sandwiches, but an egg salad sandwich for tea is unbeatable. They are creamy and tangy and pair well with green or black tea like Earl Grey or English Breakfast tea.

All you have to do is mix chopped boiled eggs, mustard, mayo, and salt in a bowl and slather this mixture on white bread. Make sure to chop the eggs well, but not too finely, so they do not turn to mush when mixed with mayo, and not too roughly so they don't look messy. 

Also, boil the eggs for only 12 minutes and cool them with ice water for the right consistency.

A Caprese sandwich is a great crowd-pleaser especially for Caprese salad lovers as it has everything you love about the salad. The juicy sweet tomatoes, fresh basil, arugula and creamy mozzarella cheese stacked on pillowy focaccia is insanely delicious and super simple to whip up.

The key to a delicious caprese sandwich, though, is not the ingredients but the sauce or spread. You can use a lemon vinaigrette dressing with lemon juice, garlic, mustard, honey, salt, pepper and olive oil.

Alternatively, use a basil pesto to accentuate the flavors of the basil. You can buy this ready-made or make it from scratch by blitzing, basil, walnuts, olive, salt and pepper in a food processor.

A mini stacked bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwich and tea always hits the right spot. These mini BLT sandwiches are delicious, and just because they are tiny does not mean they are less flavorful than regular-sized BLT sandwiches.

And the best part? You do not need special ingredients to make them. All the ingredients are pantry staples, or the local grocery store has everything you need.

For this sandwich, use buttered lettuce and cocktail tomatoes. Buttered lettuce is light, refreshing, and more pliable than iceberg, making it easier to work with. The cocktail tomatoes are the perfect size.

A radish and herb butter tea sandwich is perfect when radishes are in season. In season, radishes are crunchy and mildly sweet with a slight earthiness. They pair exceptionally well with herbed butter. 

Mix butter, chives, dill, and parsley in a bowl and set aside the herbed butter. You can use herbs like basil, cilantro, or tarragon. Whatever herbs you use, the herb butter adds fresh flavor to the sandwich.

Spread the herbed butter evenly on slices of bread. Place a layer of radishes and some microgreens on a piece of bread and cover everything with another slice. Remove the crusts, cut them into rectangles, and serve.

If you are serving cheesy shrimp canapes for your high tea, be warned, you might need to make quite a lot because everyone will have a hard time resisting this delicious sandwich. The shrimps add a burst of much-needed umami to the tea time. 

Start by coarsely chopping cooked shrimp into small pieces and combine it with parsley, dill, minced garlic, cheese, mayo, and Mexican blend shredded cheese. Spread the mixture generously over the crust baguettes, and place it in the oven at 350˚F for 8 to 10 minutes to melt the cheese.

Another stellar seafood option is a crab salad sandwich. Crab sandwiches are those rare treats you could splurge on when hosting a special high tea session. These luxurious sandwiches are as elegant as they are delicious. 

Start by mixing drained canned crab meat, chopped English cucumber, orange bell pepper, red onion, celery, and the salad dressing. For the salad dressing, combine mayo, sour cream, Dijon mustard, lemon juice, dill, salt, paprika, white pepper and Worcestershire sauce. 

Butter thinly sliced white bread and spread the crab salad mixture. Garnish with a dill sprig and serve.

A roast beef and watercress sandwich will have you wanting more than just one sandwich. Made with layers of thinly sliced roast beef and horseradish mayo, this sandwich is addictive. 

Mix horseradish, mayo, and pepper in a small bowl. Use a cookie cutter to cut circles out of the bread and roast beef.

Assemble the sandwich from the bottom up: bread, horseradish mayo, roast beef, horseradish mayo, bread, horseradish mayo, roast beef, horseradish mayo, bread, and watercress. Skewer a cocktail fork to hold the sandwich in place and serve.

Caramely, tangy, slightly nutty, and crunchy gouda cheese is always a hit, and when you pair it with Italian baguettes, garlic, mozzarella, mayo, tomatoes, and parsley, it is out of the world.

Grate your cheese in a bowl and mix in pressed garlic and mayo until you have a thick and creamy consistency and set aside. The spread keeps well in the fridge so you can make it a day or two ahead.

Slice the baguettes diagonally and bake them at 350˚F for 7 to 10 minutes until the edges are golden. Remove from the oven and top each piece of bread with the spread and a slice of tomato. Garnish with parsley and serve.

Pimento cheese could be confused as a type of cheese with chunks of pimento in it. Well, it's not. It is a lovely, creamy, savory spread made of cheese, mayonnaise, and pimentos. It is typically served on crackers and vegetables or in sandwiches. 

For the pimento cheese, place softened cream cheese, grated sharp cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, garlic, onion, pimento, sea salt, and freshly ground black pepper in the food processor and puree until smooth. Spread the pimento cheese on bread and top it with deli meat and cucumbers. 

Serve immediately or cover with food wrap and chill until ready to serve.

If chicken salad sandwiches bore you, give it a glow-up with a curried version. The curry powder in this recipe takes your regular chicken salad sandwich to a whole new level. 

Combine diced cooked chicken, dried cranberries, mayonnaise, chopped walnuts, chopped scallions, curry powder, and cored-diced apple and mix thoroughly. The sweetness of the apple and the spiciness of curry complement each other and add the oomph you are looking for. 

Spread the chicken salad in an even layer on crustless bread and cut the sandwich diagonally in both directions to create triangles. 

Sandwich sushi rolls are a fun way to get creative with your sandwiches. You can make tuna, smoked salmon, cream cheese, or shrimp avocado sushi rolls. You could pretty much turn any sushi into a sandwich sushi roll. All you have to do is roll your sushi ingredients in bread and ensure everything stays in place.

Unlike other sandwiches in this list, the bread for the sushi sandwich has to be rolled slightly with a rolling pin. After that, add your spread and your ingredients for the sandwich. Then, roll up the sandwich a little loosely and keep it in the fridge before serving so that the bread holds its shape. 

Making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches is not rocket science. Everyone knows how to make this classic sandwich, but for a sophisticated high tea version, you might need to do it a little differently. 

For this recipe, you need creamy peanut butter because it is easier to work with than crunchy one, and strawberry jam instead of jelly as it is thicker and will hold its shape better without oozing out. Do not forget the thin white bread. 

Using a cookie cutter, cut the bread. Put the peanut butter and jam into sandwich bags and pipe them in a circle on the bread. You can do a double stack.

A high is a substantive affair with savory sandwiches of meat and fish and desserts like a strawberry cheesecake bite. These cute two-bite-sized desserts add sweetness and a pop of color to your sandwich assortment.

Start by crushing graham crackers in a bowl and beating cream cheese, caster sugar, and vanilla extract in a bowl until smooth. Spoon the mixture into a piping bag and pipe about one tablespoon of the cream cheese filling into each hollowed-out strawberry. 

Hold the strawberry upside down, dip the filling into the graham cracker crumbs, and refrigerate until served. For extra flavor, you could dip strawberry tips into melted chocolate.

Another dessert option is madeleines. Madeleines are light, delicate, shell-shaped sponge cake bites that complement most teas. They are not the easiest desserts to make, but as long as you follow a Madeleine recipe to the t, it should turn out fine.

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F and grease your madeleine molds. Beat eggs, vanilla, and lemon zest in a medium bowl with an electric mixer on high speed for 5 minutes. Gradually beat in the sugar until the mixture is thick and satiny.

Sift together flour and baking powder in the mixture. Fold the melted and cooled butter and bake in the oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool the cakes on a rack and sift icing sugar over the top. 

Scones are a quintessential part of any high tea. These treats are sweet and served with butter or jam and cream. They can be plain or with dried or fresh fruit and even cheese, but at high tea, plain scones with clotted cream and jam are more common.

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F and grease a baking sheet. For the scones, sift flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt into a large bowl. Cut in butter with a pastry blender until you have coarse crumbs. Whisk milk and sour cream together in a measuring cup and stir into the flour mixture for the dough.

Form slightly flattened dough balls and place them onto the prepared baking sheet. Brush scones with egg wash and set aside for 10 minutes. Bake in the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes.

A blue cheese sandwich might be a little shocking since it has a pungent smell and mild flavor. But when paired with honey-roasted grape crostinis, they are exquisite. 

Preheat the oven to 350°F and slice baguettes. Place the slices on the baking tray, brush it with olive oil, and for about 5 minutes. Remove from the oven, spread the blue cheese, and bake for another 5 minutes.

Saute the grapes in olive oil, grapes, thyme, and honey in a large frying pan on medium heat. Place the grapes on the bread with chopped walnuts and serve.