{"id":10840,"date":"2026-01-06T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/?p=10840"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:38:48","slug":"a-sparkling-birthday-tea-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-sparkling-birthday-tea-party\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sparkling Birthday Tea Party!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10887\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cava75Meal-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cava75Meal-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cava75Meal.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 85vw, 275px\" \/><strong>Wishing J&#x2665;&#xfe0f;Y!<\/strong> ChezHelvetica hosted a very special Cava75 Birthday Tea Party with dear, artful friends ~ in honor of incredible Arlene! With the cork popped on bubbling <em>Marqu\u00e9s de C\u00e1ceres Cava Brut<\/em>, the party was off. An array of delicious Tea Sandwiches (Shrimp, Egg Salad, Boursin and Blue Cheese\/Walnut\/Pear) was the first course, along with a wonderful Mango Cole Slaw and an assortment of Teas.<\/p>\n<p>Next the sweet course! Martha Stewart&#8217;s recipe for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/336222\/fast-raspberry-scones\">Raspberry Scones<\/a> and Panettone with<em> Devon<\/em> Clotted Cream and <em>Stonewall Kitchen<\/em> Orange Cranberry Marmalade and Holiday Jam, as well as Local Honey and Maple Syrup.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10858\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1434-300x201.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1434-300x201.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1434.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10864\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1431-1-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1431-1-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1431-1.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 85vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Delightful gift opening followed and then the birthday candle was kindled. Delicious Black Magic Cake with Chocolate Fudge frosting and Vanilla Bean Ice Cream were the sweet crescendo of this heartfelt party. The bottom line on the cake reads &#8220;Prince (with <span style=\"color: #800080;\">Purple Rain<\/span>)&#8221;, Arlene&#8217;s forever love!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10843\" src=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cava75BirthdayCake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cava75BirthdayCake.jpg 480w, https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Cava75BirthdayCake-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 85vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing J&#x2665;&#xfe0f;Y! ChezHelvetica hosted a very special Cava75 Birthday Tea Party with dear, artful friends ~ in honor of incredible Arlene! With the cork popped on bubbling Marqu\u00e9s de C\u00e1ceres Cava Brut, the party was off. An array of delicious Tea Sandwiches (Shrimp, Egg Salad, Boursin and Blue Cheese\/Walnut\/Pear) was the first course, along with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/a-sparkling-birthday-tea-party\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Sparkling Birthday Tea Party!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471],"tags":[448,523,512,520,220,522,9,521,6],"class_list":["post-10840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chezhelvetica","tag-andronicos","tag-devon-clotted-cream","tag-jane-the-bakery","tag-marques-de-caceres-cava-brut","tag-martha-stewart","tag-prince","tag-safeway","tag-stonewall-kitchen","tag-trader-joes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10840"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10898,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10840\/revisions\/10898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezhelvetica.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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