When I first designed our famous Alice in Wonderland cake, it wasn’t for a birthday party or a wedding. It was for Selfridges.
Our three-tiered Alice in Wonderland cake sat across multiple floors of the department store and became one of those designs that kept coming back long after the original brief.
Fast-forward several years and the Alice cake has become a proper Anges de Sucre classic. We’ve made it for birthdays, weddings and events, but the design is particularly at home at a maximalist birthday party.
Three layers of red velvet hero sponge, striped blue-and-white Swiss meringue buttercream, chocolate ganache drip, a chocolate teapot and teacups filled with salted caramel ganache “tea”, macarons, hand-piped roses, fondant toadstools and edible playing cards. It is maximalism with manners.
The point of a themed cake is not simply to put recognisable objects on top. The colours, proportions and edible details need to work as a cake first. That is what keeps a theatrical design from feeling like a pile of decorations.
If you are planning the wider celebration rather than looking for this exact design, browse our birthday cakes. They are made to order and hand-delivered across London and Surrey by our own drivers.
Lots of love,
Reshmi xoxo
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