Looking for something to satisfy your sweet tooth? We’ve got you covered with more than 20 easy, frugal desserts that pair perfectly with tea time!
22 Easy Tea Time Dessert Recipes
If you love drinking tea, then you’ll love these delicious dessert recipes that pair well with tea!
1. Cinnamon Scones
These scones are perfect for tea time as they look a little fancy and taste amazing.
Thankfully, they are super easy to throw together — and the leftovers taste great too!
2. Patriotic Muffins
Of course, these patriotic muffins are delicious any time of the year — but they are an especially fun tea time treat for Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day!
3. Simple Sugar Cookies
These light and airy cookies are the perfect addition to any coffee or tea. You could brighten them up a bit by rolling them in colorful sugar to coordinate with colors for a baby shower, wedding shower, or end-of-school class treat.
4. Pumpkin Doughnut Muffins
Part doughnut + part muffin = a perfect tea time treat!
5. Chocolate Chip Muffins
These muffins are so delicious — the are perfect for any occasion, at any time of the year.
6. Homemade Biscuits
Biscuits are a wonderful tea time treat — especially served with a variety of jams, jellies, and honey.
7. Easy English Muffin Bread
English muffin bread is another great way to elevate your tea time — serve it with a variety of fruit spreads or put out a platter of meat and cheese for a savory treat.
8. Chocolate Banana Bread
Chocolate banana bread is a great way to use up over-ripe bananas and wow your tea time guests at the same time! You could also make this recipe as muffins if desired.
9. Brown Sugar Biscuit Twists
These biscuit twists are a fun “twist” (pun intended) on homemade biscuits and a very pretty tea time treat.
10. Banana Bread
Classic banana bread is quick and easy to whip up… and everyone loves it!
11. Baked Oatmeal Muffins
These oatmeal muffins are a wonderful breakfast-turned-dessert and make a fantastic (and healthier) tea time treat!
12. Cinnamon Doughnut Muffins
These Jam-Filled Cinnamon Doughnut Muffins are perfect for your tea time dessert, and they’re oh-so-tasty!
13. Gluten-Free Oatmeal Spice Muffins
An easy, delicious, gluten-free recipe for any tea time guests with food allergies.
14. Whole Wheat Blueberry Muffins
This recipe is super-simple, (practically) fool-proof, and makes you the “muffin hero” in less than a half-an-hour!
15. Apple Butter Muffins
These apple butter muffins would be an extra delicious tea time dessert in cooler fall months, but they are so delicious that you could make them any time of year.
16. Upside Down Praline Apple Pie
You’ll wow your tea time guests with this delicious upside down apple pie — so gooey and delicious, and really easy to whip up!
17. Cinnamon Rolls
Fresh-from-the-oven cinnamon rolls are quite possibly the perfect tea time dessert. This recipe is SO delicious and the bread machine makes them super simple to make!
18. Double Apple Scones with Caramel Glaze
This recipe is basically like mixing a caramel apple into tender, flaky scones — yup, it’s good!
These scones are perfect with a mug of hot tea or coffee. They’re delicious for breakfast, snack, dessert… pretty much any time of day.
19. Pumpkin Carrot Cake Muffins
These muffins are so yummy, and another great way to add some seasonal flavors to your tea time dessert table.
20. Honey Sweetened Truffles
Truffles are the perfect bite-size treat to add to your tea time desserts. They are also nice energy boosters for quick snacks throughout the day.
21. Healthy Cookies
Your tea guests will be shocked that these delicious cookies are actually fairly healthy — packed with dried fruits and nuts!
22. Cinnamon Swirl Bread
You and your tea time guests can enjoy delicious, homemade cinnamon swirl bread with almost no hands-on effort, thanks to this impossibly easy bread machine recipe!
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