Alice in Wonderland Cupcakes

With all of the crazy characters from Alice herself to the Mad Hatter, Alice in Wonderland makes for many curious and clever cupcake theme.

Tim Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland has generated new Alice-inspired cupcakes.

The Alice in Wonderland Cupcakes lens includes a collection of ideas to inspire creative cupcake makers to create their own Alice in Wonderland cupcakes and even a few Alice-inspired cakes. There are many quick and easy ways to make Alice in Wonderland cupcakes or let the kids decorate cupcakes with minimal effort.

Take a look around and find ideas for Alice in Wonderland Cupcakes, Mad Hatter Cupcakes, Red Queen Cupcakes, Red Rose Cupcakes, Heart Cupcakes, White Queen Cupcakes, Cheshire Cat Cupcakes and Card Cupcakes and more.

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Take a look at the different suggestions for making Alice in Wonderland Cupcakes and choose your favorite.

Alice in Wonderland Cupcakes are best created in blue and white. The easiest way to create an Alice Cupcake is to bake a blue cupcake and add a cupcake topper.

I looked for a recipe that didn't have a lot of artificial colors and used foods to color the cupcakes. To make blue cupcakes we modified a Hungry Girl Berry-Luscious Cupcake Recipe.

The blueberries make the cupcakes very dark. If you want a lighter version, use less blueberries and perhaps some strawberries.

Blueberry Cupcakes

9 1/8 ounces white cake mix, 2 cups (half an 18.25 oz package)

1 cup Berry Flavored Fizz Water (no extra sweeteners)

4 large egg whites or ½ cup egg substitute

¼ - ½ cup purred blueberries

Cooking spray

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Prepare a 12-cup muffin pan by spraying with cooking spray, or lining with cupcake wrappers.

1. In a large bowl, mix together 2 cups of cake mix with the soda and egg whites.

2. Once mixed, add the pureed fruit.

3. Mix these ingredients together until smooth at medium-speed using an electric mixer or vigorously whisk about 45 seconds.

4. Fill prepared muffin pan approximately 2/3 way full.

5. Bake until done, 15 to 20 minutes.

6. Remove from oven and allow cupcakes to cool completely in pan before removing (if possible).

Once cupcakes are cool, remove cupcakes from pan, frost and decorate.

Yields 1 cupcake per serving. 12 servings.

Image: Modified from Muffin by dafalias. Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers available on Disney Family.

The "Eat Me" Cakes we made from lemon shortbread and wrapped, individually in craft boxes.

Eat Me Cupcakes at a party displayed on a beautiful cupcake stand. One of the easiest things to do for decoration. Just add an "Eat Me" sign to a tiered arrangement of cupcakes.

Display your masterpieces with these Cupcake Stands.

Disney Family offers free downloadable images that can be printed out on cardstock and used as quick and easy cupcake toppers. The PDF file for the cupcake toppers include the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Red Queen, White Queen and the March Hare.

The PDF File for the shrink charms include images for Alice, White Rabbit, Tea Cup, "Drink Me," Red Queen and Mad Hatter. These are a more muted or pastel version of the images.

The PDF File for the stickers include images for Alice, White Rabbit, Tea Cup, "Drink Me," Red Queen and Mad Hatter. These are brighter images.

Other images from the Disney Family Alice in Wonderland collection can be used for Alice in Wonderland and other characters.

Mad Hatter Cupcakes, a la Tim Burton can be done in Green and Orange. An easy way to create a Mad Hatter Cupcake is to bake an orange cupcake and add a cupcake topper.

To make orange cupcakes for the Mad Hatter, we modified a Hungry Girl Berry-Luscious Cupcake Recipe.

Mad Hatter (Orange) Cupcakes

9 1/8 ounces white cake mix, 2 cups (half an 18.25 oz package)

1 cup Orange Flavored Fizz Water (no extra sweeteners)

4 large egg whites or ½ cup egg substitute

¼ - ½ cup purred mangoes

½ tsp orange zest

Cooking spray

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Prepare a 12-cup muffin pan by spraying with cooking spray, or lining with cupcake wrappers.

1. In a large bowl, mix together 2 cups of cake mix with the soda and egg whites.

2. Once mixed, add the pureed fruit.

3. Mix these ingredients together until smooth at medium-speed using an electric mixer or vigorously whisk about 45 seconds.

4. Fill prepared muffin pan approximately 2/3 way full.

5. Bake until done, 15 to 20 minutes.

6. Remove from oven and allow cupcakes to cool completely in pan before removing (if possible).

Once cupcakes are cool, remove cupcakes from pan, frost and decorate.

Yields 1 cupcake per serving.

Image: Modified from Muffin by dafalias. Alice in Wonderland Cupcake Toppers available on Disney Family.

For the Mad Hatter Party that we had a couple of years ago (before the Burton version) we made cupcakes in two sizes and then let the kids create Mad Hatter Cupcakes by attaching a mini cupcake to the top of a larger cupcake with a decorative toothpick.

Then they got to frost and decorate their crazy Mad Hatter Cupcake with sprinkles, mini chocolate chips, edible sprinkle card shapes (hearts, spaces, clubs and diamonds) and almonds.

Here are two different frosting mixes that we used.

Marshmallow Frosting

½ cup Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme

½ cup Cool Whip Free, thawed

½ tsp Flavoring Extracts (almond, lemon, peppermint, vanilla) as desired

Food coloring as desired

Vanilla will turn the Frosting slightly brown, so you may want to add food coloring.

Mix ingredients together.

Makes 1 cup of Frosting.

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Pudding Frosting

1 3 oz. package sugar-free pudding (vanilla, white chocolate, lemon, chocolate)

1/2 amount of milk suggested.

1 cup+ Cool Whip Free, thawed

1. Mix sugar-free pudding mix with 1/2 amount of recommended milk.

2. Add 1 cup + thawed Cool Whip Free to the pudding mix and blend well.

Makes 2 cups+ of Frosting.

Burton Mad Hatter Cupcakes

For Burton Mad Hatter Cupcakes we'd use a large cupcake in a green cupcake wrapper on a green base.

Some peacock feather paper, edible ribbons and Bamboo picks with decorative end to finish decorating the hat as the hat pins.

The kids would get to decorate the cupcake them green sugar, chocolate chips and almonds.

The two sizes of cupcake pans needed to create the Mad Hatter Cupcake the we served at our Mad Hatter Party.

Let the kids top their Mad Hatter cupcakes with different toppings.

The top hats in this confetti can be used to quickly decorate some Mad Hatter inspired cupcakes.

Red Queen Cupcakes are primary red. They can be heart-shaped or red roses. An easy way to create a Red Queen Cupcake is to bake a pink cupcake and add a Red Queen cupcake topper.

To make pink cupcakes for the Red Queen, we modified a Hungry Girl Berry-Luscious Cupcake Recipe.

Strawberry Cupcakes

9 1/8 ounces white cake mix, 2 cups (half an 18.25 oz package)

1 cup Berry Flavored Fizz Water (no extra sweeteners)

4 large egg whites or ½ cup egg substitute

6 medium strawberries or ¼ - ½ cup of purred berries

Cooking spray

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F.

Prepare a 12-cup muffin pan by spraying with cooking spray, or lining with cupcake wrappers.

1. In a large bowl, mix together 2 cups of cake mix with the soda and egg whites.

2. Once mixed, add the pureed fruit.

3. Mix these ingredients together until smooth at medium-speed using an electric mixer or vigorously whisk about 45 seconds.

4. Fill prepared muffin pan approximately 2/3 way full.

5. Bake until done, 15 to 20 minutes.

6. Remove from oven and allow cupcakes to cool completely in pan before removing (if possible).

Once cupcakes are cool, remove cupcakes from pan, frost and decorate.

Yields 1 cupcake per serving. 12 servings.

Image: Modified from Muffin by dafalias. Red Queen Cupcake Toppers available on Disney Family.

Red Rose Cupcake for the Red Queen and her Court.

For the Alice in Wonderland Premiere Party, we baked Strawberry and Blueberry cupcakes (from the recipes above) in heart-shaped molds.

After watching the movie, we took the kids to a nearby park where they had a chance to frost cupcakes with White Chocolate Pudding Frosting (recipe above) and decorate them with a variety of sprinkles and some healthier toppings (mini chocolate chips, cinnamon and sliced almonds).

The shape of the cupcakes helped to make them festive and letting the kids decorate their own, gave them an activity and something to eat.

Image: Heart Cupcake in Baking Mold by Kirsti A. Dyer

Some of the Heart Cupcakes baked for the Mad Hatter Party.

The Angel Food Recipe for the White Queen cupcakes is SchneeweiÃe Engels-Speise (glutenfrei)from seelensturm's website in Germany, which my husband says translates to Snow-white Angel Food (Gluten Free), which is perfect for the White Queen.

Note that the measurements are in metric and have been adjusted and included in parentheses.

Snow-white Angel Food Cupcake

Ingredients:

75 gms (2/3 cup) rice flour

3 tablespoons cornstarch

75 ml (1/3 cup) Cream

2 egg whites

1 / 4 teaspoon citric acid

25 gms (1/8 cup) caster sugar (superfine sugar)

25 gms (1/8 cup) instant coconut powder (or sugar)

1 / 4 teaspoon baking powder

Approx 20 ml (4 teaspoons) milk

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 ° F

Prepare a 6-cup muffin pan by spraying with cooking spray, or lining with cupcake wrappers.

1. Mix together rice flour, starch and baking powder into a bowl and mix.

2. Add cream, sugar and coconut powder to a mixing bowl and mix well.

3. In a separate bowl, add the citric acid to the egg whites and beat well.

4. Add the flour mixture to the cream mixture and stir until mixture is smooth.

5. Add milk a bit at a time to make the mixture dough like, not liquid like.

6. Carefully fold the egg whites into the flour-cream batter.

7. Divide the mixture evenly into 6 prepared baking cups.

8. Bake at 350 ° F (325 ° F for a convection bake)

9. Bake for 20-25 or until a rod can be removed cleanly.

About halfway through the baking time, 10 - 12 minutes, once the cupcakes have risen become more solid, cover to ensure that they remain a golden brown.

Cool on wire racks.

Yield 6 cupcakes. (Double recipe for 12 cupcakes)

The recipe was translated with Google Translator (and a bit from rusty German).

Image: White Queen Cupcake created from Cupcake by bluegum and Lemon Wedding Cupcakes by Clevercupcakes. Toppers available on Disney Family.

You can find some of the special ingredients for the Angel Food recipe like citric acid, fine caster sugar and coconut powder on Amazon.

Diana's Desserts has a very handy conversion calculator that was used to convert the metric measurements in this recipe.

Decorate your White Queen cupcakes with edible pearls and edible glitter.

A very easy way to create a fancy, elegant cupcake is to use any of these filigree or couture cupcake wrappers. You will have a white cupcake fit for a White Queen.

Très elegant!

Colors for the Cheshire Cat are dark shades of blue, turquoise, gray and purple for Burton's Chess. A quick and easy way to create a Cheshire Cat Cupcake is to bake a blue cupcake and add a cupcake topper.

The Disney Family site has a great tutorial on making a Cheshire Cat Cupcakes using skittles, sour apple gummy ring and gumdrops. For more ideas check the Rainbow Cheshire Cat Cupcakes and Giant Cheshire Cat Cupcake Cake from the Meringue Bake Shop.

Image: Modified from Muffin by dafalias. Cheshire Cat Cupcake Toppers available on Disney Family.

This Cheshire Cat Cupcake idea comes from a Mad Hatter's Tea Party held back east. Making these Cheshire Cat Cupcakes is all in the candy and nuts decorations.

After the cupcakes have been baked and frosted, it is time to add the decorations. Using fondant, fruit leather, fruit roll ups or rolled out gumdrops or lifesaver gummies cut toothy smiles or Cheshire Cat grins for the mouth.

To make a white toothy grin for the Disney Family version of the Cheshire Cat cupcake, they used the white side of a sour apple gummy ring.

The ears are made from Almond slides, the mouth and eyes from something like dots, gummy candy or any other gummy candy. One might also try using M & M's or skittles.

A Cheshire Cat Cake made from a Giant cupcake mold.

Black and Red cupcakes can be created using frosting, fondant or most easily by sprinkling with black and red sugar.

The Card Cupcake is another very easy way to create a quick Alice in Wonderland themed cupcake.

To baked and frosted cupcakes (in the party theme colors) simply add a card, or a couple of cards from a mini card deck as decoration.

Extra cards from the mini card deck can be scattered on the table for decoration, as seen in the Host an Alice in Wonderland Party lens.

The Card Deck Cake is a great addition to a Queen of Hearts inspired Alice in Wonderland theme.

After baking a tiered cake and frosting with white frosting, add the Edible Playing Cards according to the instructions.

Once the Playing Card Edible Images are in place, use a knife or mini cutters to cut fondant, fruit leather, fruit roll ups or rolled out gumdrops or lifesaver gummies to cut out the deck of cards shapes and add the final touches to the Card Cake.

Edible Playing Cards available on Amazon.

Other ideas that people have had to make Alice in Wonderland Themed Parties.

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