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. Make time for tea and delight you guests with our beautifully illustrated Truly Alice party range. Transform your home into a Mad Hatters tea party by hanging our teapot bunting on the walls or between trees, then add our oversized Alice in Wonderland decorations and photo props to feel like you have shrunk in size – just like Alice! 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.

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. Create signs with arrows leading to the Alice in Wonderland themed tea party, bunting and lacy table cloths will add a fancy vintage touch.

More Tea? The Mad Hatter Cake

Whip the butter and icing sugar to make the buttercream, divide up the mixture and dye each bowl a different colour. Frost all of the cupcakes in the pastel buttercream.

When Alice stumbles upon the Mad Hatter and his upside down tea party, she is handed a spectacular 'un-birthday' cake. Here's how to recreate your own.

Who's Been Painting My Roses Red? Queen Of Hearts Cupcakes

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. Kidadl is independent and to make our service free to you the reader we are supported by advertising. Take your sponge cake and fill the centre, either with just buttercream or jam too, sandwich the two layers together. The Mad Hatter is an iconic Alice in Wonderland character and this topsy turvy Mad Hatter cake is our tribute to him.