My first great love was a book…Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. As a child I reveled in the fanciful story as well as the charming illustrations by John Tenniel. I still have this hardback, as seen in my photo. Included in this volume is Alice’s next grand adventure, Through the Looking Glass, which is a magical journey as well. To this day I cannot get enough of Alice, be it mugs, mementos or movies. I just about slid out of my theater seat when the White Queen appeared on screen in Tim Burton’s enchanting rendition. Now that was a costume I’d challenge someone to a game of croquet for!
Won’t you please take my hand and jump through the rabbit hole to Wonderland…where cupcakes don jaunty hats? Together we can paint all the roses gold! 🌹♠️♥️♣️♦️
✨Hope my Alice in Wonderland inspired cupcake makes you smile. If you’d like to give it a whirl please see below.✨
“But I don’t want to go among mad people,” Alice remarked.
“Oh, you can’t help that,” said the Cat; “we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”
“How do you know I’m mad?” said Alice.
“You must be,” said the Cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”
—Lewis Carroll
Decoration
1 small gold glitter covered cardboard top hat
Gold edible heart confetti
Pink and red sugar sprinkles
Edible rose petal shaped wafers
Vanilla Cupcakes
2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Place rack in the middle position and preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit. Next, in a large bowl, combine the sugar, flour, baking powder and salt. Then add in the rest of the ingredients, and beat with an electric mixer until smooth. Pour the batter into lined cupcake pans.
Bake for 18-20 minutes until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Let cool and decorate with passion.
Vanilla Buttercream Frosting
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons milk
First, with an electric mixer, beat the vanilla extract and butter in a medium bowl. Then slowly mix in the powdered sugar, and beat. Now pour in the milk. Lastly, using the electric mixer, beat the mixture until it is smooth and fluffy.
Frost each cupcake. Decorate each with the edible gold heart confetti and sprinkles. Plate each cupcake and surround the bases with the edible rose petal wafers. The centerpiece cupcake gets the little top hat, don’t eat this one as the non-edible glitter may fall onto it.
Makes 14 cupcakes
Note: If you prefer an easier version use store bought cake mix and frosting. Or…just pick up undecorated cupcakes and glitz them up yourself!
(Always let the sugar sprinkles melt in your mouth).
