I managed to make the buttercream edges look like book pages by repeatedly pressing a pair of 5-blade herb scissors (affiliate link) into the icing while it was nice and cold. I repeated the process with the smaller book.Īnd, because of the denseness of the pound cake, I didn’t need to use dowel rods to support the second layer of the cake. I used extra buttercream to pipe out the name of the book. I also cut two small rectangles of fondant for the spine and attached it by wetting the back side of the fondant with water. I cut strips of the fondant to place along all of the other bottom edges of the cake to look like the cover on the bottom of the book. I iced the entire bottom layer, let it set up in the fridge, then rolled out the fondant, cut it to size, and placed it on the top and one long side of the cake.
HARRY POTTER BOOK CAKE FULL
The bottom layer is two full sheets of cake stacked to make 2 layers, and the top is one cake cut in half and stacked to make 2 layers. It took three rectangular cakes to make the books. The book covers are made from Wilton’s brown fondant (affiliate link) which is chocolate flavored and surprisingly tasty for fondant! I love using pound cake because I know the cake will hold up without much need for extra support.
I used my favorite chocolate pound cake recipe and buttercream recipe. It made for a great backdrop for the gift table. I found this awesome Daily Prophet fabric at JoAnn’s and cut it up to make some fun bunting. I hung them from our dining room light with fishing line. I strongly contemplated collecting paper towels rolls to make my own taper candles, but these ended up being just over $1 each which seemed well worth the purchase. In the “great hall” where we had the food table I hung LED taper candles (affiliate link). To make the wings stand out away from the lanterns I glued popsicle sticks to the back of them. I just cut out wings from white cardstock and hot glued them to gold paper lanterns ( affiliate link). I made some cute Golden Snitches to decorate the Quidditch field ( more on the Quidditch field soon!). I’ll also share about making that life-size Professor Snape soon. That’s what is in all the test tubes! ( Test tube rack found at Michael’s.)īut more on that in the potions post ( coming soon). We did several potions including a potion that sorted the kids into the Hogwarts houses.Ĭan I just say that “slime” makes for great potions? It was almost as much fun as making the wands!
We also had a potions class, which I will dedicate a post to. Resources ( affiliate links): Brick Background, Stone Tablecloth It really made the space for the wand shop! I shared this photo with the Wand Shop post, but since it contains a lot of the decor I wanted to share it again here.Ĭan I just say that brick background is AMAZING! There was just so much that one post would be so overwhelming!Īnd today it’s all about the cake and some of the store bought and handmade decoration ideas!īut, like I’ve said before, I did not get a lot of good photos during the party (too much fun being had!).īut I’m sharing some pics I was able to take later, and, luckily, I did get photos of the my son blowing out his birthday cake! So I think we’re on part 4 of sharing our Harry Potter party. Get inspired to throw a magical wizard party by this Harry Potter books cake and party decor!
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