It's been eighteen months now since I gave up sugar. Yeah, you heard it right; this previously cake-obsessed afternoon tea addict gave up sugar. Actually, that's slightly misleading. I gave ...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2017/05/sugar-and-grain-free-banana-bread-recipe.html
Well hello there. This poor old blog has been languishing for quite some time (but thank you to the people that have continued to stop by). Partly this can be explained by the blog fatigue th...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2016/03/sugar-and-grain-free-blueberry-and.html
On our way to Berlin, where we have been spending the summer, we decided to take a little detour for a few days. After some consideration we chose a place that can quite rightly call itself ...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2014/08/east-frisia-tea-drinking-capital-of.html
I've been struggling with what to call or how to classify this blog post. In truth these teas don't necessarily have a lot in common (price per cup ranges from 3.2p to a whopping 27.7p) but n...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2014/06/taste-test-premium-everyday-teas.html
I realise I am in a fairly small minority in that I always drink premium loose-leaf tea. Despite loving a cup of splosh I only tend to drink one or two cups a day so I figure that it's worth ...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2014/05/taste-test-everyday-teas.html
There was a time when Berlin was full of cafés like Butter : large, airy, bright, lots of wood and great lighting. At some point those cafés started to disappear and get replaced by tren...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2014/04/review-butter-prenzlauer-berg.html
I have an admission to make: just lately I have been drinking more coffee than tea. This came about for a variety of reasons, the most important of which was our summer trip to the midwest of...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/12/coffee-going-over-to-dark-side.html
Before heading off on my summer break to the Midwest of the US of A (where I had a wonderful time but drank very little tea worth writing about) I was lucky enough to be invited to sample the...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/10/review-kensington-palace-orangery.html
I'm not sure what's going on but just lately I've been craving food with crunch. It's not the flavour of things I've been thinking about but the texture. I'm sure this has some deep psycholo...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/07/very-easy-oaty-biscuit-recipe.html
As I have mentioned before, I love going to museums and galleries with good cafés . Obviously I love going to museums and galleries generally but it's so much more enjoyable when there's som...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/06/review-cafe-am-waldsee-zehlendorf.html
Right back when I started this blog I wrote about water temperature and how important it is to get it right when making different cups of tea. Ever had a really bitter tasting cup of green t...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/06/a-kettle-for-perfect-cuppa.html
I've written before about how one of the nicest things about having a blog is the opportunities it creates for meeting like-minded people. So when Jess of Knitting on Trains mentioned that ...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/04/anderson-co-light-bright-and-tasty.html
I'm not quite sure why I have never written about what is probably my favourite cake place in Berlin. It isn't a reluctance to share the love for fear of never getting a table: the place is a...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/04/sowohl-als-auch-where-cake-is-king.html
Yesterday I made some pretty amazing cupcakes. Okay you're thinking, calm down with the arrogant claims; but I'm telling you, I can hardly stop myself stuffing my face with the lot of them. ...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/03/clementine-cupcakes.html
I have been absent from this blog for some time. A combination of work and lack of inspiration has kept me away - apologies for that. But finally I have been driven to write by a truly awesom...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2013/01/in-praise-of-black-forest-gateaux.html
Berlin is a city that is constantly changing. From the squat bars that I so loved in the early nineties to the coffee bars of today, it's the kind of place where you can never be sure that th...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2012/07/prinzessin-kasekuchen-as-i-wish-it-was.html
BOND AND BROOK HAS NOW CLOSED From time to time I get asked to go along and check out a new tea venture. It's always very nice to be asked but between work, trips abroad and life in genera...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2012/06/chic-combination.html
Much as I love baking there has always been one sizable chink in my armour: the ability to make good scones. On the occasions when I have decided that nothing but a homemade cream tea will do...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2012/04/perfect-scone-recipe.html
There's no doubt that going out for afternoon tea is a special treat: the cakes; the scones; the little sandwiches. But tea-drinking is not just about leisurely afternoons spent overdosing o...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2012/02/everyday-treat.html
I really love the idea of pop-up restaurants. The chance to visit someone's home and have them cook for you is exciting and definitely satisfies the nosey-parker in me. Although I'd only been...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2012/01/art-deco-delight.html
For many of us, Christmas means a lot of time spent driving between relatives delivering Christmas cheer and indulging in one-too-many mince pies. One of the worst things about being on the r...
Do you sometimes get stuck in a rut afternoon tea-wise? No? Well maybe it's just me. Really good tea and cake experiences are just not that thick on the ground, so when I have the chance to i...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2011/10/cold-dog-in-pastel-parlour.html
The promise of a nice cup of tea is enough to encourage me to do pretty much anything. So when a friend told me about a place near her Berlin flat that served up a massage accompanied by a cu...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2011/08/massage-and-cuppa.html
Do you ever find yourself in that situation where you discover something and wonder how you hadn't known about it before? That's what happened to me a couple of weeks ago when my friend M had...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2011/07/well-kept-secret.html
There are few things I like better on a sunny day than poking around gardens that aren't usually open to the public: whether it's a workplace garden or an someone's own little oasis, I love s...
http://www.afternoonteatotal.com/2011/06/perfect-sunday.html