Today I am going to share with you one of my favourite treats, fruit sandwiches! They are very easy to make and are lovely to take to a tea party or picnic. They’re small and bite sized, not too sweet but definitely different to your usual tea sandwiches. For this recipe I used strawberries and kiwi fruit, which is one of my favourite combinations, but really you can use any fruit you like! Bananas, figs, raspberries, rockmelon any fruit that is soft enough will work. You can also add crushed nuts for a different texture, or replace the fruit with rose petals and add a little rose essence to the cream!

Ingredients

12 slices of soft white bread
3 tbsp ricotta
3 tbsp thickened cream
2 kiwi fruit
6 large strawberries

To prepare the fruit, first peel the kiwi fruit of their skin and slice them horizontally to give oval shaped slices. Wash the strawberries and remove the leave, then slice in to thin rounds. Make the cream spread by mixing the ricotta cheese and thickened cream in a bowl, this ratio give quite a runny spread so if you would like it thicker add more ricotta and less cream. It should have a mild cheesecake taste.

Remove the crusts on each slice of bread and spread one side with the cream mixture. For each sandwhich I used about 2 large slices of kiwi fruit and 2 large slices of strawberry but you could probably add more for a fruitier taste. Alternate the slices for a colourful effect. Once you have added the top slice cut down the middle to make two rectangular finger sandwiches. Makes 12 in total. Enjoy with iced tea or lemonade!

Last night was Alyssea’s birthday party! The theme was ‘alphabet’ so we were each given a letter and had to dress up as something starting with it. I thought this would be fairly easy, and then I got the letter ‘E’ ! I couldn’t think of much at all, elephant, elf, egyptian… eventually I settled on ‘Easter Bunny’ partly because it was easy to find the things I needed at this time of year and also because bunnies are just cute

Mirai and I went shopping and bough some faux fur, Mirai’s letter was ‘T’ and she chose ‘Tiger’ so we had matching costumes in a way. Fur is not as hard to sew as I thought, but it sheds! There are little tufts of white fur all over my chambers still. I actually bought the ears and added a little pink bow, then made a collar and cuffs and a little tail to attach to my dress. I also found this cute easter basket to carry my chocolate eggs in, that was the best part of wearing this costume, getting to hand out chocolate to everyone!

The party was fantastic, we met at a park first where Alyssea had hired an inflatable bouncy castle! We all had fun jumping around on it. There were some really great costumes too, some of my favourites were Emily’s ‘Jelly Fish’ and Jovana’s ‘Fail.’ After the sun set we all travelled to Alyssea’s house where her Mother had made us delicious curry for dinner and a yummy carrot cake for her birthday! Some people played music games and I joined in playing Twister, which was harder than I realised! It was a fun night and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. Happy Birthday Alyssea!