There are so many amazing options for a Harry Potter birthday cake. Whether you choose to get one from a bakery or make your own cake, you can make it amazing!
Castle Cake
Make 2 cakes in regular cake pans. Stack one on top of the other. For the towers, cut 2 ice cream cones in half the long way. Place one of the halves upside down at the base of each corner. Place a whole ice cream cone on top of each half, facing upright. You can add upside down sugar cones to the top if you want pointed rooftops.
If you want a gray castle, make gray frosting by adding black paste food coloring to white frosting. Frost the cake and the towers. If you are using the sugar cones, you can make dress them up a little by making a paste of powdered sugar & water, painting it on them, and rolling them (while still wet) in black sprinkles.
The cake you see here was made for a "Knight" birthday party, but works well for a Harry Potter party.
Castle Cake from a Bakery
Don't want to make your own Castle Cake? If you give the above information to your local bakery, they should be able to do it for you! This is a Harry Potter Hogwarts castle cake made by a bakery.
Harry Potter Cake Kit
Quidditch Cake
Make a cake that looks like a Quidditch field! Using either a regular cake pan or a sheet cake pan, bake your choice of cake. Frost the top green, and add three sticks with hoops (varying lengths) at each end. You could make these with Sculpey or use stir sticks with the plastic rings that seal the lids on gallons of milk, or use bubble wands. Use graham crackers to create the towers, and frost them in the colors of the school houses.
The Harry Potter Quidditch Cake pictured here was made by Kerry M. of Georgia. It's a six-layer cake (4 yellow and 2 chocolate) with a layer of buttercream icing and covered in fondant.
The top of the cake is iced with green glitter icing and sprinkled with green sugar crystals for 'grass..' Angel food cake slices with fondant and painted with food coloring make the stands.
The house animal (red-gryffindor-lion, yellow-hufflepuff-badger, blue-ravenclaw-raven, green-slytherin-snake) is painted on the front of each house stand. The flags are strips of fruit rollup.
The base of the cake is meant to be 'rock' and is made from coco krispie treats (made with chocolate marshmallow) and have candy 'grass' tufts. The goal posts are made from spaghetti and lifesavers, secured with icing.
The people are made out of fondant and wrapped in fruit rollups (except Madame Hooch, who is wearing a fondant robe) and riding pretzel brooms with fruit rollup bristles. Two of the players have the bludger bats and one has the quaffle. Two bludgers and the golden snitch are coming off the cake via wire. Madame Hooch is standing by the trunk the balls/bats go in when not in play. It's made from chocolate, chocolate marshmallows and cinnamon graham crackers.
Wizard Hat Cake
Note: If you are using store-bought frosting, you can get by with one can for both cakes if you are very frugal, but I recommend buying two cans.
Frost and decorate as you wish - use star-shaped sprinkles, or trim fruit leather into stars and moons if you wish! Frost black for a more traditional Harry Potter look.
This cake is very easy to make and decorate - the birthday child can help decorate too!
Golden Snitch Cake
Bake the cake according to the pan directions, then add your golden frosting (yellow food coloring to white frosting). Use icing and a decorating tip to add the wings, and then you have your Harry Potter golden snitch cake.
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