I hosted my son’s 9th Birthday with a full blown Harry Potter party complete with Quidditch Match and Great Hall Dining room. Desert was this Harry Potter Snitch Cake. The base is chocolate cake I baked in a Bundt cake pan. The ball was made from a ball cake pan from Wilton – that was … Read more
My stepson wanted this Harry Potter cake for his 11th birthday. I made 2 round cake pans and a mixing bowl to make the 3 layers. I then iced it with Vanilla icing and colored with the blue gray color. I used poster board towers and put them inside the cupcakes and sugar cones on … Read more
I made this Harry Potter Car Cake about five years ago for a Harry Potter movie marathon party with some of my friends. I also recreated the cake for a friend’s birthday a few months later and it was a lot easier the second time around. I used the Wilton car cake pan. Then, I … Read more
My niece is a HUGE Harry Potter fan so for her 21st birthday I decided to make her favorite book. The Homemade Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design is made from a chocolate fudge 1/4 sheet. I rolled out fondant colored with yellow coloring and a little brown to give it an aged appearance, measured the … Read more
This Harry Potter Horcrux Cake is a homemade white cake with green butter cream frosting. The cake was then layered and coiled on top of each other. The head of the snake was shaped by using rice cereal and marshmallows. We did a dirty layer of frosting to get rid of crumbs and then smoothed … Read more
I made this Harry Potter cake for my nieces 6th birthday, she is a major fan of the Harry Potter . I made a three-tiered cake and used paper towel and toilet paper rolls for the towers. I used gray butter cream and sprinkled it with white cake glitter. The cake was a hit, although … Read more
I cut a 13″ sponge cake into shape, added height using cut offs and covered the whole cake including the board in white fondant icing. With a very soft wide brush and black, green and brown food colour I painted the rocks. To paint these I used the coloured paste as if you were water … Read more
My sons have their birthdays in the same month and we all share a love for Harry Potter, so we decided to have a joint birthday party with a Harry Potter theme. I asked my oldest what he wanted the cake to be, and when he told me Hogwart’s Castle I didn’t know if I … Read more
My daughter loves Harry Potter. I wanted to practice making a cake that looked like a book. This Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design was a perfect fit. The books were painted with a brush to look like old leather. I used blue and black on the bottom cake to try and make it look old. … Read more
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My son decided that for his 10th birthday, he was too big for a theme until I suggested Harry Potter, since he’s been reading the series. We used lots of descriptions from the books, with black, gold, and red (Gryffindor colors) for decorations, goblets, candles, “every flavor Jelly Beans” and gold galleons! There was even … Read more
I was asked by my daughter to make a ‘Harry Potter’ themed cake for her best friend’s 18th Birthday. I had seen many cakes depicting the books, sorting hat, wands etc and wanted to do something different. I had seen a Harry Potter Mandrake Cake but thought the root person wasn’t ugly or magical enough. … Read more