Gussie is pleased with the new complete antique Staffordshire tea set in Dresden Flowers which is a different blank from the little sepia Dresden Flowers pot featured in an earlier post. She is also surpressing a giggle about the wee mice on the cake plate.
After showing all the little children’s Staffordshire dishes and tea pots, it is High Tea time to serve the tea and cakes! The girls have been patiently waiting to try out the esteemed recipe for Spiced Mice Butter Cookies flavored with cinnamon, allspice, and cardamon. The cookies certainly did not disappoint, thought the cats could not be interested enough to pose for a photo at tea.
Brighde places ears on the little mice who have been egg-washed. Some have raisin-bit eyes already, and they await their chow mein noodle tails.
We made one batch at the regular tablespoon size, then we made teaspoon sized doll mice.
Edith watches over the newly baked and cooling mice so they don’t scamper all over the kitchen.
Brighde shows the full sized mice on a ruby red plate.
Would you like another mouse with your tea?
The recipe for Dita Von Teese’ Spice Mice Cookies was published in InStyle magazine with her interview a number of years ago. These little mice seem to be a popular blog topic, so rather than write out the recipe once more, I will share another blog post where you can find it: Whipped for Spice Mice Cookies. These are melt-in-your-mouth butter cookies with the perfect mild exotic cardamon flavor to make them unusually enticing. And you’ve never seen anything so adorable for the doll’s tea time!
A cozy, spicy November to you, your dolls, and your mice.
quintessential antique dolls 