Mini Heart Tea Party Sandwich Recipes - Crafting a Family Dinner (2024)

Adorable little Heart Tea Sandwiches are perfect for Valentine’s Day parties, a Bridal shower, a baby shower, and Mother’s Day brunch. These little heart shaped tea sandwiches are the perfect party tea sandwich with three delicious Tea Sandwich fillings. Next time you have an elegant brunch these will become your favorite tea sandwich recipes.

Adults love the darling finger sandwiches because they are mini sandwiches for finger food, but your kids will love the cute little shapes and eat them up. The best way to start experimenting with savory finger sandwiches is with a classic cucumber cream cheese filling using small cucumber slices of English cucumbers. Next, starting with hard-boiled eggs you will want to make a classic egg salad sandwich. And finally one of my family’s favorites is a delicious easy ham salad tea sandwich.

Any friend or family gathering turns into an elegant tea party with a cup of tea, crustless tea sandwiches, and lots of love and laughter. So get out the serrated knife to remove some crust, and mix up these delicious elegant tea sandwiches. Any ordinary lunch will turn into an event to remember.

My Love of Tea Parties and Favorite Tea Sandwich Recipes

Making little tea party tea sandwiches is the perfect way to get your little ones to try different recipes. It is the cute shapes made in hearts, triangles, and cookie cutters that will interest even the pickiest eater.

As a child, I would have never tried one of these recipes but when cute finger sandwiches were served at our church’s high tea celebrations I could not get enough of them. My mother would also make these for guests when we had an afternoon tea party.

My love for these little mini sandwiches started very young. My childhood church served them for every tea party put on my the Women’s Guild. Cucumber tea sandwiches were served at every Easter Sunday andChristmas Eve formal tea reception as well as at all of the bridal showers and baby showers.

Traditional English Tea Sandwiches were my first introduction to cream cheese cucumber sandwiches.The savory ham salad recipe below and egg salad sandwiches with dill.

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Variation of filling for Easy Finger Sandwiches

• Thin slices of roast beef with horseradish mayo.
• Wheat or white bread.
• Plan cheese sandwiches.
• ​Add Dejon mustard to the ham salad sandwich.
• Substitute goat cheese for cream cheese.
• Simple ham slices.
• A simple Chicken Salad.

Types of Bread for Mini Tea Party Sandwiches

The best bread to use is a thin slice of bread. This way it is easy to cut and easy to remove the crust. The best bread to use is a thin slice of bread. This way it is easy to cut and easy to remove the crust. You can remove the very edge of the crust with a serrated knife or buy crustless bread from a bakery. For many of our family parties, so as not to waste food, I would leave the crust on, or use the crust in our bird feeder.

How To Make Tea Party Sandwiches

Mini sandwiches are so quick and easy to make. They keep well in the refrigerator if they are covered in plastic wrap, that way you can make them the day before. Traditionally Tea sandwiches werecrustless. You would purchase a regular loaf of bread remove the crust with a very sharp knife to make sure you got just the crust off and cut them intotriangles andsquares or use cookie cutters to make fun shapes.

Probably around the late 60s and 70s bread companies around the holidays would make little tiny square crustless bread packages. They are not really crustless the crust is just very very light and thin.

For my Valentine’s Day Party, triangles and squares just did not go with my heart theme, so I purchased some sturdy wheat bread and white bread that I could cut into adorable heart shapes for Valentine’s Day with my cookie cutters.

Tea Parties at Our House For Valentine’s Day

I am so excited to have everyone over for our annual Valentine’s Lunch Party. I have been crafting and planning for weeks. Every year in February I have the women our our family and kids to a fun heart themed tea party. Here in Ohio when it is freezing cold in February, Valentine’s Day is the perfect time for a party. We make fun food, and cute crafts and plan all the fun adventures when spring arrives.

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Supplies Needed:

• Heart Cutter Cutters
• A good Pairing Knife
• Cutting Board
• Mixing Bowls
• Offset Spatula’s
• Hard-Boiled Egg Chopper
• Vidalia Chop Wizard

Tea Party Sandwich Recipes

There arethree basic list of Tea sandwich recipes thathave been the tradition in our family and I know your family will love each one of these flavors:

• The 1st is a very traditionalCream Cheese cucumber sandwichwith chive and cucumber slices on top.
• The 2nd filling is aClassic Egg Salad sandwichwithDill.
• The 3rd is a traditional EasyHam Salad.

1. Each of these recipes is a quick and easy mix and ready to spread. Get all your ingredients out and ready to go before you start.
2. It is best if you have your eggs hard-boiled the day before and in the refrigerator so that they are cold.
3. Have all your slices of bread and ready to go.
4. Follow each recipe and keep chilled until ready to assemble.

Cream Cheese Cucumber Tea Sandwichs

Cream Cheese Cucumber Tea sandwiches are the simplest to make. Simply have your bread cut in the desired shape. Mine are hearts of course using a cookie cuter. Very simple tasty and very elegant.

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Egg Salad Tea Sandwiches

The next delicious classic tea party sandwich is filled with traditional egg salad with dill.

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Classic Easy Ham Salad Tea Sandwiches

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I know you will have so much fun making these little sandwiches. They are quick and easy and your kids will love making the shapes out of bread. You can use any cookie cutter that is not too detailed. Remember you can also make the traditional squares or triangles.

What to do with the unused bread

Making shapes out of bread does leave a lot of unused bread. I took all my loose ends and put them in a plastic bag and put them in the refrigerator to use for croutons later. Everyone loves croutons no matter the shape. I just make them bit sized, toss them with olive oil, basil, and oregano, and bake at 350 until they are golden brown.

Have fun with your food and make mini sandwiches you will be surprised how they are eaten up.

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