My husband and I made this Monster Book Of Monsters Birthday Cake for our 1 and 2 year old son’s birthday. They love Harry Potter. We got the idea while watching our nightly dose of Harry before bed time. The cake is half devils food and half yellow cake with chocolate cream and fresh strawberries … Read more
This Harry Potter Knight Bus Cake is the triple Decker Knight Bus from Harry Potter 3. My son is fascinated by all means of transport and this is what he asked for this year for his 7th birthday. I have so far made a castle, a plain now a bus! I was given the added … Read more
I was 12 when I made this Harry Potter cake for my neighbor’s birthday (Summer 2007). I had just finished reading the last Harry Potter book which inspired me. I baked a basic yellow sheet cake in an 11 x 13 cake pan. I made the schoolhouse out of graham crackers using melted chocolate chips … Read more
I made this cake for my best friends two little boys and their Harry Potter themed joint birthday party. I searched for Harry Potter cakes but in the end made this monster book. I used two cakes, one 15 x 11 1/2 sheet cake for the monster book and formed open book pan the same … Read more
For my daughter’s 8th birthday she wanted to do a theme centered around Hogwart’s Witchcraft and Wizardry complete with “Mom” being Professor McGonagall. After deciding to turn our dining room into the Great Hall I wanted to end her day with a really unique cake and so I decided to make Monster Book of Monsters … Read more
I made this Homemade Harry Potter Birthday Cake Design for my wife’s birthday. She is a big fan of the books and movie. I started by making Devil food cake, she loves chocolate in the shape of a book. Tried something new. Made Cannoli filing, and butter-cream to cover cake before I put on Fondant … Read more
I used basic Yellow cake mix for this Harry Potter character cake. I prepared my own icing (recipe below). I searched the Internet for a picture of the Hogwarts Crest. I then used the picture to draw a pattern to cut the cake and for the details on the cake. I colored the icing and … Read more
I made this Monster Book of Monsters Birthday Cake for our son’s birthday. The eyes, gums and lettering on top were made from chocolate (CK Sculpting Candy Kote). It comes in a small tube, so it’s easy to control. I have a small disk mold I used for the eyes. I put down the black … Read more
This Harry Potter Cake was for a young lady, Jordan’s birthday. I simply used two 9×13 cake pans. After layers the two cakes, I cut off about three inches off the length of the cake. I iced the sides which were the “pages” with white icing and used a fork to strike the lines for … Read more
My son is a big Harry Potter fan and really wanted a cake with a hippogriff! Having no clue how to draw a hippogriff I went in search on the web for Harry Potter characters. I found a few but none really fit the bill. So I sketched my, own using a few others as … Read more
My son wanted a Harry Potter cake for his birthday, So I decided that the monster book of monsters would be fairly easy. It was, I just made a sheet cake, then I cut it in half and stacked it to make a double layer cake. First I did a buttercream/crumb coat. The frosting was … Read more
I made this Harry Potter Golden Snitch Cake cake for my daughter’s sixth birthday. We are all crazy about Harry Potter at our house and it seemed like a fun cake to try. I made the cake circular by baking the top and bottom half in a Pyrex bowl. I used the Hershey’s Special Dark … Read more