Alice in Wonderland is known for being off-the-wall unsettling, but there’s no flag red enough for us to judge Alice for eating those delicious-looking cakes. If you’re enchanted by Lewis Carroll’s zany characters and memorable depictions, these Alice in Wonderland party food ideas are perfect for your tea party.
This is a great opportunity to go for the gusto with decorations, and load up the table with Alice-themed food that’ll disappear faster than the Cheshire Cat.
From elegant tea party finger sandwiches to quirky, colorful cupcakes, there are a ton of options to offer guests that will be delicious and don’t require the legal proceedings that come with shrinking the consumer. Because we may all be mad here, but at least we’re not hungry.
20 Alice in Wonderland Party Food Ideas
1. Gluten-free Funfetti Blondies
Maybe the Hatter was so mad because of all of the indigestion, and cutting out gluten was the answer all along. We’d go mad, too, if we had to watch all of our friends indulge in blondies without us.
This gluten-free version of the treat is colorful enough to draw you in, delicious enough to keep you coming back, and easy enough to whip up that there’s little danger of driving you mad.
2. Earl Grey Tea Truffles
These sweet yet sophisticated truffles come together quickly by combining sugar cookie dough, cream cheese, frosting, and Earl Grey tea.
Plus, they appeal to all ages. The kids love sugar cookies, the older crowd loves a good cuppa, and that weird guy in the corner probably likes frosting because, well, frosting.
3. Bunny Butter
The White Rabbit is an iconic character, so it’s easy to give a nod and a cute accent to your table using only a little butter, a mold, and a dream.
The dream isn’t as necessary as hardware to make the bunny butter. But have you ever attended a party where the host has given up on dreams? Kind of a buzzkill.
4. White Chocolate Raspberry Scones
Scones are a little divisive in that a lot of people find them too dry, but white chocolate and raspberries counteract a multitude of sins.
Many of our party guests agree, although our lawyers do not.
5. Cucumber Tea Sandwiches
If you’re having a tea party without cucumber finger sandwiches, what are you even doing?
“Having a tea party without cucumber finger sandwiches,” you say? Okay, we guess that’s fair. But these crustless gems are classic for a reason. Simple, clean-tasting, and refreshing, these are right at home at any afternoon tea.
6. Colorful Cotton Candy Cupcake
Want to lean into the visual madness of Alice? Color your treats rainbow. Want the taste to reflect that madness? Add cotton candy. Everywhere.
These cupcakes have cotton candy in the batter, frosting, and decoration so you can ensure you create a memorable treat with the flavors of your childhood.
7. Pink Champagne Jello Shots
Heart-shaped pink champagne Jello shots are elegant enough for tea party enthusiasts and alcoholic enough for their plus ones who really didn’t want to spend their afternoons at a tea party.
The sweetened champagne, gin, and lemon mixture make for delicate little jigglers that are as fun as they are tasty.
8. Fruit Jam Tea Tarts
Jam tarts don’t have to be as intimidating as Paul and Prue make them seem on Bake Off.
You can achieve the wonderfully buttery base and sweet filling by assembling store-bought pie crust and ready-made jam, leaving you plenty of time to sympathy-panic with Bake Off contestants about their soggy bottoms.
9. Gluten-Free Coconut Banana Truffles
The story of Alice in Wonderland is bananas, and so is the flavor of this super easy truffle. Made with banana, coconut and almond flour, and shredded coconut, this is a vegan, gluten-free, no bake option that still looks dainty on the tea table.
The hardest part is either not eating them all before your guests arrive, or committing to eating every single one so that your guests never know what they missed. Pick your challenge.
10. Naturally Pink Lemonade
We turn naturally pink when we wave to someone that was waving at the person behind us, but this lemonade does so with the addition of beet juice.
Combining that with just water, sweetener, and lemon juice makes for a sharable beverage that looks appropriately ethereal for Alice in Wonderland, and will make the tea at your tea party feel overlooked. We love a beverage power grab.
11. Tea Party Cupcakes
The base of these cupcakes happens to be lemon, but feel free to translate the buttercream decoration onto any flavor base you’d like.
Bright frosting gets turned into festive flowers that have all of the visual appeal of a real bouquet, and none of the thorns. Unless you’re really bad at making buttercream.
12. Almond Tea Cakes with Wild Blueberry Jam
Tea cakes at a tea party is a big step towards the redemption of naming in the English language. Driving on a parkway and parking in a driveway? Who let that happen?
The cookie base of this treat is buttery, tender, and loaded with almond extract and flour. Fill it with jam, dust it with powdered sugar, and enjoy.
13. Prawn Salad Tea Sandwiches
If we want to know if something is fancy, we ask ourselves: Would Mary Berry eat this? The answer on this is a resounding yes, so we’re in the clear.
The prawn salad comes together with just shrimp or prawns, mayonnaise, watercress, and a few flavorings before it’s ready to be served between two slices of honey wheat bread. Be sure to cut carefully and evenly, lest Mary call your sandwich “informal.”
14. Almond Cupcakes with Poppyseeds, Cocoa, and Orange
It’s nice to see poppyseeds venture outside of the bagel world, and we admire the chutzpah to hang with players as strong as cocoa and orange.
If the flavors didn’t already sell you, it really solidifies its place at your tea party with the addition of black tea in the batter. These are definitely worth having to pick poppyseeds out of your teeth.
15. Cauliflower Leek Soup
If you’re at a tea party, might as well ride the wave of hot liquids. It’s not fun for surfers, but it’s great for hosting.
Cauliflower leek soup is creamy, comforting, and classy, yet refreshing enough for afternoon tea.
16. Mini Crack Quiches
We give huge ups to the creative add-ins of these quiches. In addition to the tried and true bacon and cheddar, it also includes dijon mustard and ranch dressing before being baked into a won-ton crust.
It’s the best of “tailgate food meets Chinese food meets tea party,” which sounds like the love story we’ve all been waiting for.
17. Potato Cheese Stick
“Potato cheese stick” doesn’t usually scream pinkies up. That’ll teach us to judge a book by its cover.
This version is a little more work than popping open a snack bag, but the cheese pull makes it all worth it.
18. Teabag Cookies
We thought Lewis Carroll was creative, until we saw this take on sugar cookies. The idea of taking a cookie and shaping it to look like a teabag is so simple and brilliant, we’re all mad that we didn’t think of it first.
You can even print your own labels to add to the cookies. Could be an opportunity to get on the Queen’s good side.
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19. Spinach and Cheese Filo Pies
Oftentimes when it comes to the Greek spinach and cheese classic of spanakopita, the hardest part is spelling it. This mini version is no different, assuming that you start with premade filo dough, like anybody who is not a maniac.
The filling sees a base of spinach and cheese fortified with aromatics and eggs, and the whole pie will see the inside of our mouths very quickly.
20. Fig and Goat Cheese Puff Pastry Roll
That caterpillar might think that “puff” is just something to do on a hookah, but we can’t hear the word without thinking of pastry.
Buttery, flaky, wonderful puff pastry. Filled with fig jam and goat cheese, rolled, sliced, then baked, this sweet and savory combination is more than the sum of its parts and bound to be a hit.
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