Beautify your brunch or tea party with these colorful and dainty cream cheese tea sandwiches.
Tea partiesare all the rage these days, bringing dainty petit fours and tiny tea sandwiches back in style.
Cream cheese is always a good idea for crustless miniature bites, along with thinly sliced cucumbers or radishes.
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Top tea sandwiches with violas for apretty presentationas delicate as a fine china teacup.
What Are Violas?
Violas areedible flowersthat come in various colors, including white, yellow, dark purple, and lavender.
Their subtle flavor is secondary to their artful addition to tea sandwiches, salads, and cocktails.
Pansies: the flowers are much larger than violets.
They have a mild flavor that is often described as a little bit floral and spicy.
Still others say their flavor is similar to the taste of mint.
Stir in chopped violas.
Assemble Viola Tea Sandwiches
Spread cheese mixture overbrioche slices.
Sprinkle with flaked sea salt, if desired.
2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
