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A few weeks ago it was my sister’s birthday and we made her a theme birthday. In my family we always do it, preparing birthdays with different themes and to the taste of the “birthday one”. I have to admit that I love to prepare things like that, I enjoy it a lot (as well as dressing up) and I don’t worry about what the party is going to be about, I adjust to everything, hahaha. Two years ago we did it on zombies (which he also loves) and her cake was a mix of zombie and pop<\/strong><\/a> (in the photo there are some toppers missing that I made pin up style). This year I made her this Alice in Wonderland Cake<\/strong>. It’s one of her favorite movies, along with her books. But not Disney’s, but Lewis Carroll’s<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

I must admit that I thought of a million options when it came to making the cake. One thing I had against me was that I didn’t put too much time into designing it, so a lot of things I would have liked to do, stayed in my mind. Still, it took me 4 days to make the cake. In the process of elaboration you will see that I detail 3, but many more things came together for me and I had to divide the processes a little more.<\/p>\n

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Shaping the Alice in Wonderland cake<\/h5>\n

Surely when you see the cake you think that there are many other alternatives to make the decorations, and I agree. But there are two things I had to keep in mind to make it happen:<\/p>\n

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  • My sister likes Lewis Carroll<\/li>\n
  • Her favorite characters in the film<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    With these two options, we greatly reduce the selection margin. To begin with, everything that is Disney oriented, goes far away from us… On the other hand, I had to focus on his favorite characters. You won’t believe which ones they are. The Playing Cards!<\/strong> Yes, that’s right, the crazy cards that insist on painting the white roses in the garden the Queen of Hearts in carmine color. Surely you would never have imagined it! She also likes Alice and the white rabbit, but she likes cards more.<\/p>\n

    So, as you can imagine, I focused on that scene in the film<\/strong><\/a>; playing cards and painted rosebushes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    \"Alice <\/picture><\/div>\n
    How to make the cake decoration?<\/h5>\n

    I thought a lot about how to make the Alice in Wonderland cake decoration. I came up with many ways to do it, but it was Sunday night and it had to be ready and assembled for the next Saturday.<\/p>\n

    I came up with the idea of doing the whole cake decoration with cookies. The good thing about these is that they are very easy to make and are very versatile when it comes to decorating them. I opted for a “fast track”, which was to decorate them with royal icing<\/strong>. The good thing about glazing is that it not only allows you to create shape and volume, depending on the consistency we use, but it also lets us draw on it.<\/p>\n

    What more could you ask for? I had this part almost solved.<\/p>\n

    I say almost because I had to buy teapot cutters, cups, rectangles… Besides a royal icing mix. I know I could have done it with albumen, but I thought it was a great idea (and easy) to use this preparation considering the time. Do not judge me \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

    Once I had the exterior thought, besides the outer layer that would cover the cake, I had to consider how to make the interior. Maybe you think that this part is not so complicated. But I was thinking that it was August, with its consequent deadly heat, and that my sister doesn’t like any kind of chocolate filling… Yes, I know, we don’t look like sisters, but we are.<\/p>\n

    \"Alice <\/picture><\/div>\n
    Cake inside.<\/h5>\n

    I didn’t want to make a single color interior, so I decided to do something similar to what I did with the Circus of Horrors Cake<\/strong><\/a>. Simulate a chess set with layers of sponge cake. This time the cake had a slightly larger diameter (5 cm) so the cuts were not as perfect in size compared to the cake I based on.<\/p>\n

    The filling had to withstand a high temperature, just like the outside, and like it… of course. Since she loves cheese, I used the mascarpone cream filling I left in the Kanagawa Cake<\/strong><\/a> (and some other recipes I have on the blog). I already had everything thought out and organized, all I had to do was carry it out. Besides organizing and buying things for the party. I must say that I had a lot of help in this part, otherwise it would have been impossible \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

    If I had to keep any scene from the movie, it would be the one from the Mad Hatter Tea Party<\/strong><\/a>. It’s great!<\/p>\n