Harry Potter Cake

Last week, Joanne was given the chance to make a cake she'd wanted to do for a while: she got to make a Harry Potter cake! Having read all of the books and watched all of the movies multiple times, it was actually difficult to choose which elements of the Harry Potter world to incorporate into the cake.

In the end, she decided it would be fun to make a couple of Hogwarts textbooks and add a couple of little details for fun. The clients were francophone, so we went with two topics which had "transparent" titles; words that are the same in French and English. So, potions and dragons it was!


It was a fun day of firsts for us: first time using our new four inch deep square pans - which were cut into rectangles - and Joanne's first time using food dyes and water to hand paint on a cake.


The books are accompanied by a small sorting hat, a golden snitch and a wand made from chocolate fondant.


Joanne added the birthday girl's initials on one of the books, as the author, which she promptly noticed and excitedly ran to tell her mother about. We later heard it was a hit with the other kids at the party.

The cakes were both moist chocolate with a dark chocolate buttercream.