Karen Burns Booth

Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day) Recipes: Cakes, Scones, Tarts & Sandwiches


Lemon Drizzle Cake with Edible Flowers

Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day) Recipes:

Cakes, Scones, Tarts & Sandwiches

Teacup Posy

It’s British Mothering Sunday, (Mother’s Day) this Sunday the 30th of March, time to dust off the best china, bring posies of spring flowers into the house and bake cakes and other delicious treats for our mums. I was hoping to share a new recipe with you this year, but time and travel have stolen the few spare hours I had, so I am sharing some older recipes as well as some newly commissioned recipes with you all today. I DO have a wonderful spring cake recipe in mind, and I will be making it (and testing it!) next week, just in time for Easter and Mother’s Day around the rest of the globe.

Little Victoria Lemon Daisy Cakes

So, why is British Mother’s Day different to the rest of the world? For a start the correct name is Mothering Sunday, and the day originates from the practice of visiting your “mother church” or dioceses ; the Victorians then linked it to our more commercial mother’s day of today by suggesting that it was also a day to visit your “earthly” mothers and treat them to chocolates, flowers and cakes, as well as giving cards. Mothering Sunday in Britain is linked to the Christian calendar, and always falls on the 4th Sunday in Lent. Also known as Refreshment Sunday or Rose Sunday, it is a date linked with food and the relaxing of strict Lenten fasting, hence the opportunity to enjoy eggs, butter and of course cake!

Cheese and Broccoli Spring Onion Tartlets

It’s one of my favourite days in the British calendar of feasts and festivals, and if I can’t visit my mum, I always make sure she has a card and a gift to open and enjoy on the day. If I am able to visit her, then I always arrive bearing cake and flowers. I think that all of today’s recipes for spring cakes would be more than welcome and appropriate for this special day. As well as cakes, my recipe for little cheese and vegetable tarts, cut out in the shape of daisies (flowers) would also make a welcome appearance on the tea time table, plus they are so pretty too, and more importantly they are meat-free, as my mum is a vegetarian.

Little Violet & Rose Fancies

So, what’s on the menu in my Mothering Sunday recipe share? Well, we have cake and cakes, of course. We also have little savoury tarts, scones and some dainty sandwiches. All that is needed then is to make a bog pot of freshly brewed tea, or maybe some fresh coffee if your mum’s are like mine and prefer a milky coffee. Push the boat out for the sandwiches, and well as cucumber why not make some cucumber and smoked salmon sandwiches, or cream cheese and mixed herbs.

Cream Cheese and Herb Sandwiches

A big bowl of salad and some freshly boiled eggs are also wonderful accompaniments for a special Mothering Sunday tea, and I often like to make a fruit cake. I hope that today’s post will provide you with some recipe ideas and seasonal inspiration, have a wonderful day on Sunday if you are lucky enough to be with your mums, and do pop back to see what new recipes I have been creating, as well as couple enter in to a couple of new giveaways too. Karen

Lemon Drizzle Cake with Edible Flowers

Mothering Sunday (Mother’s Day) Recipes:

Lemon Drizzle Cake with Edible Flowers

Cheddar and Broccoli Spring Onion Tartlets

Little Chocolate & Violet Fancies

Little Victoria Lemon Daisy Cakes

Orange Cream Cheese Cake

Herb Garden Tea Sandwiches with Cream Cheese

Victorian Watercress Tea Sandwiches for High Tea

Old-Fashioned Rose Lemonade Scones

Low Calorie Vanilla Bean Scones

Mothering Sunday Posy of Flowers


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