The Official Harry Potter Baking Book

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In a large mixing bowl, beat the softened butter until light and creamy. Then slowly sift in the sugar bit by bit whilst still mixing. This fun candy store of the wizarding world offers tons of unique treats that wizards of all ages would enjoy. While the Muggle versions of these Harry Potter food ideas don’t retain all the features, they’re still quite fun and delicious. Acid Pops This is Harry’s favorite dessert. Treacle is a type of syrup, reminiscent of molasses. (via A Communal Table ) Dangerously delicious lollipops known to possibly burn a hole through your mouth. (via The Daily Prophet )

Step 4 Make the buttercream icing. Beat the butter and icing sugar together until pale and fluffy. Fill a piping bag, fitted with a fluted nozzle, with 3/4 of the icing. Divide the remaining icing between four separate bowls. Add a different food colouring to each and mix well. Add in the vinegar, vanilla, dairy-free milk and beat until smooth, creamy and slightly paler in color; about 3-4 minutes. Step 4: Stir in chocolate Cut into slices and serve with a glass of homemade butterbeer. Harry Potter Birthday Cake FAQs Can you make a non-vegan version of a Harry Potter birthday cake? Place the second cake on top and then, using an offset spatula, spread the pink icing evenly over the entire cake until smooth and uniform. (Here’s how the pros decorate a cake.) inch Cake Pans: Choosing the right size pan for a cake recipe is key. Don’t be tempted to size up to a 9-inch cake pan. Using a larger pan will result in thinner cake layers that will also be prone to drying out.Gillyweed is a magical plant that sprouts gills and webbed appendages to allow to swim underwater. (via Whip and Wander ) Eating this will leave you levitating a few inches off the ground. If you want to keep true to the books, it’s a sherbet type candy. (via Muggle Net ) Keep reading to learn how you can bring some magic into your kitchen with a homemade version of Hagrid’s birthday cake for Harry. Then buy yourself some butterbeer to wash it all down! This is a decadent sundae treat that Harry got to partake in when Dudley complained that it didn’t contain enough ice cream and threw a fit, casting it aside. (via The Starving Chef Blog )

The characters in the book seem to prefer the drink cold, but this gluten-free, vegan, paleo-friendly recipe perhaps even more delicious warm in the Muggle world. (via A Saucy Kitchen ) Yes, made from cheese. Molding the entire thing may seem intimidating, but it’s all in the shape of the eyebrows. (via Sustaining the Powers ) This soup proved that a little TLC can make food taste infinitely better. (via Miss Kitchen Witch ) These not-so-cute creatures were also featured in our round-up of Harry Potter cupcakes. (via Kojo Designs ) Can’t leave this item off the list, but here are some easy Harry Potter recipe ideas that incorporate the butterscotch flavor through various ways.Hermione would whip this complicated concoction up to help on Slytherin spying missions. (via Homemade Hooplah ) These treats blow up when eaten, though not a great explosion that would actually cause harm. (via Stephii Mattea ) How about this ribboned cake design. I’m totally for the flavor of this cake. (via Holly in the PNW ) If you don't have a piping bag, try scraping your icing into a food bag instead and cut a hole in the corner to pipe

Stop beating your batter as soon as the ingredients are smooth so that you don't collapse all the air bubbles and end up with a dense sponge Or if you’re fine with the chocolate version, such as the one served at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, try this vegan, gluten-free recipe shaped like bumblebees. (via 918 Plate )Put the mixture into bun cases. Then grab a grown-up to help with the oven. Bake the cakes for 10 to 15 minutes.

Those drink causes powerful infatuation that brings out different scents for everyone who smells it. (via Crafty Little Gnome ) Molly Weasley is one mom who knows how to cook and bake, offering various kinds of comfort foods to Harry. One of her specialties is this dessert. (via Bryton Taylor of In Literature ) Preheat the oven to 375°F and grease two 8-inch round cake pans. Line the bottoms with parchment paper and set them aside. Step 2: Whisk together dry ingredients

Editor’s Tip: You can also mix this cake the Muggle way with a bowl and spoon. (Bonus points if it’s with one of these Harry Potter kitchen items.) Step 3: Add wet ingredients Piping Bags with Round Tips: For duplicating Hagrid’s messy scrawl of “birthdae” wishes on the finished cake. Another theory is that perhaps they figured that Hagrid, being a friend of all magical creatures, would have preferred to bake vegan to ensure none would be harmed in the making of this cake. In the human world that characters like Harry’s Dursley relatives only know of, exist these sweet Harry Potter recipes. Aunt Petunia’s Pudding The undecorated cake layers can be frozen, however. Let cool completely and then wrap tightly in plastic and store in a sealed freezer bags for up to 2 months. For more tips, follow this handy guide to learn how to freeze a cake like a pro. Here’s What I Thought