To make some little Cheshire Cat cakes, cut strips of fondant in pink and purple and create stripy cupcakes, you could even decorate a whole cake like this, complete with a Cheshire Cat smile.

You could also use other items to put in between the saucers, like candle holders or egg cups. Or vary with cups placed upside down and right side up. Kidadl is independent and to make our service free to you the reader we are supported by advertising. Kidadl cannot accept liability for the execution of these ideas, and parental supervision is advised at all times, as safety is paramount. Anyone using the information provided by Kidadl does so at their own risk and we can not accept liability if things go wrong. Sponsorship & Advertising Policy The Mad Hatter is an iconic Alice in Wonderland character and this topsy turvy Mad Hatter cake is our tribute to him.

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We have some amazing ideas for some truly out of this world Alice in Wonderland cakes. When it comes to going down the rabbit hole, more is more - but don't worry, these cake ideas are simple and easy to follow, as the Cheshire Cat himself says, "for me, myself, personally, I prefer the short-cut", and we agree!

Get cups and saucers in different sizes, so your cake stand will taper towards the top in stead of going straight up. Look for small plates as well as saucers. Roll out the white fondant icing and cover the cake and the Swiss roll so they create the watch shape, smoothing it down around the edges and trimming any excess. Using a sharp knife, trim the cake to create a wide cone shape, with the smallest part at the top. Carefully lift the cake and flip over, this is now the main part of the hat! Use buttercream to fix the cake to the cake board. Cover the cake with a thin layer of buttercream as a crumb coat. The first thing to do is scoure thrift shops for cute, old fashioned tea cups and saucers. You’ll want to mix and match: combine cups of a certain design with saucers of a different design, but do try to make them go together in a certain way. Match by color, type of decoration, rim design, or some other aspect. For your cake, you will need to triple the sponge cake recipe above. Use the method from the mad hatter cake to trim and flip your cake to create the slightly wobbly un-birthday cake shape. Sandwich the layers together using the pink buttercream.

A Very Happy Un-Birthday To You- To You! An Un-Birthday Wonderland Cake

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it. So the next step for me was to glue the things that came off because I didn’t wait for the glue to dry properly during the first round, together again…) Materials Needed: 600g butter, 1200g icing sugar, pink food colouring, white food colouring, blue fondant flowers, piping bag with 'flower' nozzle, a cake stand. Take your white buttercream in the piping bag and pipe dots of frosting all the way around the edge of each layer, the base and the top. Place the blue fondant flowers around the edge of the top layer. We’re all mad here! In homage to Lewis Carroll's classic book, our Alice in Wonderland party supplies, decorations and tableware are designed to help you escape your everyday life and tumble down a rabbit hole of your imagination. Perfect for providing some inspiration for your next Tea Party, Alice in Wonderland party theme, Baby Shower or Mother's Day table. Roll out the fondant icing, and cut a long rectangular strip for the brim of the hat, put this to one side and cover the cake with the remaining green fondant. Take the long strip of fondant and arrange this around the base of the cake.

Wrap the green ribbon around the base, securing the price tag. Finish off by painting on the gold dusting powder with a small brush, around the top edge of the hat and around the edge of the rim, just to add a little sparkle! Who's Been Painting My Roses Red? Queen Of Hearts Cupcakes Take your sponge cake and fill the centre, either with just buttercream or jam too, sandwich the two layers together.If you’re anything like me, you’ll be tempted to do everything at once anyway. Take my advice and refrain from doing so – go do something else in between while you wait for the glue to dry, because watching glue dry is like… well, watching paint dry I guess. Bake three cakes using the method above. Whip the butter and sugar together and use the buttercream to sandwich the three layers together. A tea party is not complete without cake! Add the finishing touches to your party table with our ‘eat me’ cake domes, ‘drink me’ tags and tree shaped cake stand for an eye-catching table centrepiece. Step three, which is already the final step, is glueing everything together. Use a type of glue that is suitable for ceramics, preferably a transparent glue. I used epoxy glue. Tiered cake stands made of upcycled teacups and saucers are very popular – and perfect for a Mad Tea Party! They’re actually really easy to make. Let me show you how it’s done!