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
The ideas for this Harry Potter cake I adapted from a birthday cake book. Just quickly colored the ready made icing and chopped up a ready made cake. Quick idea for most busy mums. The kids loved it even if it isn’t perfect! More Harry Potter Cakes Cake by Lisa Y., Reisterstown, MD For my … Read more
Here is my version of the Monster Book of Monsters Cake (Harry Potter) in edible form. It was created for a little girl turning 8 who loves Harry Potter. She is having an awesome Harry Potter themed party with wizard wands, potions, chocolate frogs and all. The cake it a red velvet quarter sheet cake … Read more
For my 17th birthday, I decided to have a ‘Harry Potter’ themed party, a Hogwarts Birthday Cake included! It was the combined effort of both my mum and my aunt and lots of advice and titivating from me. Mum cooked three red velvet cakes in different sized cake tins – in decreasing sizes. She bought … Read more
I made this Harry Potter cake for my son’s 9th birthday. The way I made it was I made a few cakes different sizes and stacked them with icing as my glue. I had to place a dowel down the middle to support it. I then carved the odd shape with a knife. This tends … Read more
I made this Harry Potters Books cake for my son’s birthday; he loves Harry Potter. The owl was made from a 3D bear cake that I sculpted into the shape of an owl, then covered with fondant. The books were made from a 1/2 sheet cake, cut in half, covered with buttercream and then with … Read more
My friend’s son wanted a cake and he is a fan of the Monster book. So I thought I would go for it. I haven’t done anything like it before. I have two girls. This Homemade Harry Potter Monster Book Cake has three layers of chocolate sponge with Nutella filling and then more chocolate as … Read more
I made this chocolate cake in a star shaped tin and iced it in purple. I then made all the decorations out of coloured ready-made icing and marzipan – and placed these in the corners of the star and the middle of the cake. The children had lots of fun spotting things from the books … Read more
This Hogwarts Birthday Cake was made for my boyfriend’s 21st birthday. He made a joke saying I should make a Harry Potter cake and I took him seriously and came up with this. This Hogwarts cake has a grand hall and some towers, a courtyard (cardboard not cake), an owlery with owls, Hagrids hut, a … Read more
My husband and I love to go all out for our children’s birthdays. We do our best to create the atmosphere of whatever theme our child has chosen for that birthday. Harry Potter was one of our favorites. Our house became Hogwarts castle with floating candles and moving staircases. We decided to make the Quidditch … Read more