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Simple Themed Cake Decorating Ideas

Alice in Wonderland cupcakes are a hugely popular idea. This is due to the popularity of the books (and films) but also due to the amazing scope of ideas the world of Wonderland gives.

One of our first forays in cake decorating, these Alice in Wonderland cupcakes were decorated for a friend’s 21st. These cupcakes were created and decorated using fondant, bought decorations and sweets.

Inspiration for Alice in Wonderland cupcakes

First of all it’s up to you whether you focus solely on the book series or films. Alice and Wonderland have appeared in a range of media including by not limited too:

• The Orginal Lewis Carroll book and short story series
• Walt Disney’s 1951 Animation
• The star studded 1999 film
• The duology of Tim Burton films
• Appearances in the Disney Plus ‘Once’ serieses
• And many others

Quick inspiration ideas for Alice in Wonderland Cupcakes

Quick inspiration ideas for Alice in Wonderland cupcakes could include the following (in no particular order).

Key Characters

• Alice
• White Rabbit
• Red Queen
• Queen of Hearts
• White Queen
• Card Soldiers
• The various Kings
• Chess Soldiers
• Cheshire Cat
• Mad Hatter
• March Hare
• Dormouse
• Caterpillar

Key Themes

• Flowers and gardens-a “Golden Afternoon”
• Drink me and Eat me
• Mushrooms
• Shrinking and Growing
• Mirrors and Looking glasses
• Cards and Chess
• Keys and Keyholes
• Croquet

Our Alice in Wonderland cupcakes

How we created each of the Alice in Wonderland cupcakes

Drink Me

For the drink me cake we modelled a bottle out of fondant and applied it to a buttercream cupcake. We used colour coordinating sprinkles and found sprinkle letters fishing out D R I N K M E

Eat Me

The Eat Me mushroom was created by fashioning some cake scraps on top of the cupcake and then covering it in red fondant with white details and E A T M E sprinkle letters

 Don’t forget the key

As it was a 21st a key was the perfect Alice in Wonderland x Life Event moment. The lock was made of fondant, and marbled with some white to give it some depth. 

Daisy Flowers

Created using fondant these Alice in Wonderland cupcakes were inspired by the floral scenes in the film. Thinly rolled fondant, cut into oval petals, rolled lightly and arranged into a flower shape. Fondant can be applied to the cake with buttercream. Whilst a glitter gel (all the rage 15 years ago) and silver balls form the textured centre of the cake.

Wonderland Mushrooms

A simple set of three fondant wonderland mushrooms sit on top of buttercream grass. The key here was to coordinate the colours of fondant and buttercream. But each mushroom was still unique.

Cheshire Cat

A classic Cheshire Cat was created with a mix of fondant, sweets and edible marker!

Now we have done a lot more cake decorating I’m sure we would be able to do these better. However I’m still pleased with these as a first foray into cake decorating 15 years ago!

If you decide to create some Alice in Wonderland cupcakes be sure to let us know how you got on. You could even create some daisy photographic props to take the perfect cake pictures!