Halloween is on its way, but it feels as if we only just celebrated Halloween. This week, I paid a visit to the Corinthia Hotel for Halloween-themed afternoon tea. This was only available for the week leading up to Halloween. I last visited the Corinthia for afternoon tea last Christmas (Festive Afternoon Tea at Corintha).
The Corintha Hotel was decorated with pumpkins, autumn gourds and squash, and various autumn-coloured flowers and berries. The Lobby Lounge, where the teas are served at the hotel, also had a massive autumn display with pumpkins and autumnal flowers underneath the gorgeous dome light.
We were seated and ordered our champagne and sandwiches. Unfortunately, I was not completely up for the afternoon tea experience as I've had a nasty cold all week and I was feeling particularly ill yeaterday evening when we had the afternoon tea. I actually feel worse today. The cold has affected my tastebuds, which is really frustrating, so I am not able to really comment on the selection of food and my preferences as to which items were my favourites.
I had an old-fashioned tea from 1921 called "Bert Firman" and later switched to the standard English Breakfast. We received two fruit scones and two plain scones with rapsberry and strawberry jam and clotted cream.
We made a start on our Halloween pastry selection, which included eight different items.
The following Halloween treats were provided.
- Wraith: Cookie crumble cupcake with roasted vanilla ganache.
- Jeepers Creepers: Chocolate mousse, burnt orange marmalade
- Frankenstein: chocolate mint macaroon
- Trick or Treat: Pumpkin custard tart with nutmeg chantilly
- Hocus Pocus: Lemon cream, digestive crumbles, toasted Italian meringue
- Devilish Disguise: Pistachio chantilly, white chocolate
- Mausoleum: Chocolate sable biscuit with raspberry jam
- The Haunting: Crispy Choux, Cappuccino chocolate
I'm not fond of cappuccino or coffee, so I did not care for that one. The pumpkin tart was nice, and the pistachio treat was also nice. I liked the crispy base. I was unable to taste the mint in the macaroon, and the others I could not really enjoy because of this stinking cold.
I loved the design of the pastries.
Happy Halloween to my readers!
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