If your little “one in melon” needs could use more color variety, a combination of melon tones (and snacks, and games! The tea has its own dedicated station manned by a sommelier who will weigh and infuse your selected brew to achieve the best possible flavor. For classics with a twist, there’s Chocolate Brownie, a black tea with notes of cacao, Chinese green tea with rhubarb and vanilla and white tea with chili if you’re after a slight kick. You are greeted by the sound of the Orient, as a musician plucks away on a Chinese guzheng zither—and yet there's no escaping the fact that you are in London. It’s almost worth skipping the scones (though they do come with a yummy Haye Farm strawberry jam) and moving straight to the cakes where traditional Italian treats steal the limelight.

The nightwear collection has fleece-lined slippers and cotton-rich pyjama sets, as well as funky themed socks. Huge displays of treats are wheeled around on silver gilded trolleys so that guests can make their own selection, or indeed, choose to indulge in them all.Inevitably, there is an element of performance that accompanies the service at a hotel like The Dorchester. Rustic furniture, distressed copper-topped tables and matching chairs are lit up by fairy lights strung from the glass ceiling and surrounded by thriving plants.

Glace icing is a simple way to add decoration to your bakes, simply mix Silver Spoon icing sugar with water to bring this easy glace icing sugar recipe to life. This consists of double cream, icing sugar and a little vanilla to flavour the cream, whipped to peaks and then spread and piped on.For this easy coronation cake, I used blueberries for the background and then strawberries and raspberries for the red parts. Whether you stick with fish or add in sharks or mermaids, we’re seeing lots of blue, paper streamers as seaweed, balloons as bubbles for a sea-nsational soirée the kids will absolutely love. Then, after adding the start of the flag, I piped the rest of the whipped cream on so that the blueberries were sat up slightly (As they are much smaller than the other fruit).