Kidadl provides inspiration to entertain and educate your children. We recognise that not all activities and ideas are appropriate and suitable for all children and families or in all circumstances. Our recommended activities are based on age but these are a guide. We recommend that these ideas are used as inspiration, that ideas are undertaken with appropriate adult supervision, and that each adult uses their own discretion and knowledge of their children to consider the safety and suitability. 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.

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. 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 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.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. 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. The Queen of Hearts is one of the most fierce characters in Wonderland, but even she couldn't be mad about these perfect wonderland themed cupcakes. If you've been wondering about the best cakes for an Alice in Wonderland themed tea party that the Mad Hatter himself would be proud of, look no further.

Roll out your white fondant icing, using a round cookie cutter roughly the same size as your cupcake, cut out enough circles to cover all of the cupcakes. Using a pastry brush, put little warm jam on each cake and place the icing on top.Take your decorative flowers and dot them all over the cakes. The more random and mixed up the better, we want to create a bright and beautiful flower bed for Alice and her companions to stumble upon. Cut a 10cm slice of Swiss roll, and place this at the top of the sponge cake, cover both cakes with a thin layer of buttercream to create a crumb coat. 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.