Unique Kitchen Tea Themes & Matching Cocktails For 2023
Picking a theme for your kitchen tea is a great way to make it extra special. Below we’ve listed 8 Unique Kitchen Tea Themes & Matching Cocktails For 2023, enjoy!
1.Festival
The summertime is always the most popular time of year to plan a kitchen tea. It also makes a great excuse to host your own Festival! If the bride-to-be is a lover of all the classic festivals, Rocking The Daisies and Ultra, and aspire to one day end up at Coachella, making your own unique festival will be perfect. You can create this dream anywhere, in your own back garden or even a cottage you’ve rented. All you need is your imagination and creativity and you can bring the most iconic event to life!
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Matching Cocktail: Flower Child
Ingredients:
- 60 ml Tequila
- 30 ml Lime
- 1 teaspoon, Orange Blossom Honey
- 1 bottle, Topo Chico (or other preferred sparkling water)
- Hibiscus Flowers
- Chamomile Flowers
- Edible Flowers, to garnish
Instructions: Infuse your tequila with fresh hibiscus and fresh chamomile flowers, (at least thirty minutes and up to overnight) and strain into shaker. Add lime, orange blossom honey and ice to shaker. Shake, and strain over rocks. Top with Topo Chico and edible flowers of your choice.
2.Black & White
A black and white theme is simple yet very classy. You can set up the room with some elegant black and white decorations like a draped arch and have the tables setup with a balance between the two colours. You can also request that all those attending wear black while the bride-to-be stands out in white.
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Matching Cocktail: Black Widow
Ingredients:
- 60 ml Vodka
- 90 ml Cream de Cassis
- 30 ml Kahlua
- 1/2 teaspoon Activated Charcoal (optional)
- 30 ml Ginger Beer
- 2 Blackberries
Instructions: Pour the vodka, cream de cassis, activated charcoal, and Kahlua into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake vigorously and strain into a martini glass. Splash the top of the cocktail with the ginger beer and garnish with blackberries.
3.Candy Pastel Dreams
Cotton candy. Donuts by the dozens and a dreamy pastel theme is sure to make the bride-to-be swoon and feel like a true princess!
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Matching Cocktail: Aviation
Ingredients:
- 60 ml gin
- 8 ml maraschino liqueur
- 8 ml crème de violette liqueur
- 15 ml freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Flamed lemon peel, for garnish
Instructions: Pour the gin, liqueurs, and lemon juice into a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Shake well. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a flamed lemon peel.
4.Pyjama Party
Let the bride-to-be enjoy her last few days as a Miss with her girls in a relaxed environment. A pyjama party will give her the chance to feel like a kid again with adult privileges. Get everyone matching pyjamas, set up a nice grazing table and put on some of the bride-to-be’s favourite movies in the background.
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Matching Cocktail: Raspberry Pina Colada
Ingredients:
- 45 ml white rum
- 30 ml raspberry syrup
- 50 ml RumChata
- 3 fresh raspberries
- 90 ml pina colada cocktail mix
Instructions: Add three fresh raspberries into a cocktail tin and mash them with a muddler. Pour in the white rum, gourmet raspberry syrup, RumChata, and pina colada mix. Toss in four ice cubes, secure the lid and shake vigorously for 30-seconds. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a serving glass. Garnish with a heart marshmallow threaded through a cocktail stick.
5.High Tea
With the popularity of television shows like “Downton Abbey” and “Bridgeton” stirring people into a tea-loving frenzy, there’s no better time to break out the teacups. Throwing your bride-to-be a high tea is elegant and easy, and it doesn’t have to feel stuffy, either.
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Matching Cocktail: Earl Grey Spiked Tea
Ingredients:
- 170 ml Cold Earl Grey tea
- 36 ml good quality gin
- 36 ml honey simple syrup (5 cups water, 1 cup honey in saucepan. Simmer until honey is dissolved)
- 7 ml fresh-squeezed lemon juice
- 2 sprigs lavender
Instructions: Brew 4 cups Earl Grey tea. This will give you enough to make a few cocktails. Store in the refrigerator to keep cold. Make a batch of honey simple syrup to store in the fridge as well. 5 cups water, 1 cup honey. Bring to a simmer until honey has dissolved. Then cool in the fridge. Add all of the above ingredients into a cocktail shaker, with 2 sprigs lavender and ice. Shake several times. Then strain the cocktail into a glass over one large ice cube. Garnish with lavender.
6.Wine Tasting
If sipping a glass of wine while enjoying a nice cheese platter is the bride’s thing why not consider throwing her a wine themed kitchen tea? It can involve going to some local wineries decorated in personalised signage or setting up a DIY wine tasting bar at home with customised wine labels on the bottles. You can even host a wine tasting game where everyone needs to write down which wine reminds them of the groom- and bride-to-be and why. This is sure to push everyone to get involved creatively and will ensure a few laughs.
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Matching Cocktail: Red Wine Sangria
Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons agave nectar
- 1/4 cup grand marnier
- 1/4 cup brandy
- 1 orange, halved and then sliced
- 1 lime, sliced
- 1 pear, sliced
- 1/2 cup pomegranate seeds
- 2 sticks of cinnamon
- 1 bottle of dry red wine (Cabernet Sauvignon)
- 3/4 cup ginger ale
Instructions: To a large pitcher add agave nectar, grand marnier, brandy, orange, lime, pear, pomegranate seeds, cinnamon sticks. Stir to combine. Pour in the entire bottle of red wine. Cover and place in refrigerator for 1-2 hours. (the longer it sits the better it will taste) Right before you are about to serve add the ginger ale to the sangria mixture. Pour over ice or serve chilled.
7.Casino Royale
Have a day or night of fun playing poker, roulette and gamble on the groom- and bride-to-be’s personalised quizzes! You can go to an actual casino or setup a small one at a rented hall or house. You can even print fake money with the groom- or bride-to-be’s face on and at the end of the day whomever has the most wins a gift basket. This theme is sure to be a hoot of a time!
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Matching Cocktail: Pornstar Martini
Ingredients:
- 2 ripe passion fruit, about 50ml (2fl oz)
- 50 ml lime juice
- 100 ml vanilla vodka
- 50ml Passoa (passion fruit liqueur)
- 25ml sugar syrup
- Ice, handful
- champagne, to serve
- Extra passion fruit, for decoration
Instructions: Halve the passion fruit, scoop the seeds out and place in a sieve over a bowl. Use the back of a spoon and press repeatedly on the seeds until all the juice has been extracted. Discard the pips. Place a handful of ice into a cocktail shaker. Pour the fresh passion fruit puree into the cocktail shaker, along with the lime juice, vanilla vodka, Passoa and sugar syrup. Close the cocktail shaker and shake for 30 seconds. Divide the mixture between two martini glasses, then top up each glass with champagne. Decorate each martini glass with half a passion fruit and serve with a shot glass of champagne on the side.
8.Disco
Bring on all the sparkle, the glitter, and the silver accents! You also can’t forget those sparkly disco balls! Every kitchen tea is a good time, but it’s even better with a little flare. Make the kitchen tea disco-themed and transform a space immediately with the disco balls everywhere!
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Matching Cocktail: French 75
Ingredients:
- 60 ml of dry gin
- 45 ml fresh lemon juice
- 45 ml simple syrup
- 60 ml Champagne
- Spiral lemon twist for a garnish
Instructions: Add ice, the gin, the lemon juice and the simple syrup to a shaker. Shake thoroughly until well-chilled. Pour into champagne flutes, then top off with Champagne or another kind of sparkling white wine.
Now that you’ve gone through out 8 Unique Kitchen Tea Themes & Matching Cocktails For 2023, tell us what you think? Which one would you go for?
