What food does Alice eat that makes her grow very tall?

Alice eats a cake that makes her grow very tall. In the opening chapter, she finds a small cake marked “Eat Me” after drinking from a bottle that makes her shrink. Hoping to reach the key to the garden door, she eats the cake and grows to a tremendous size.

The cake is one of several edible or drinkable objects that control Alice’s size in Wonderland. The bottle shrinks her, while the cake enlarges her; later, pieces of the Caterpillar’s mushroom allow her to adjust her height more deliberately. These transformations turn ordinary food into a source of physical and emotional uncertainty.

A common mix-up is to answer “mushroom,” because the mushroom also changes Alice’s size later in the story. However, the question refers to the first food that makes her grow very tall, and that is the cake labeled “Eat Me.” The episode also begins Carroll’s recurring use of food and appetite as engines of the plot.