If you missed our other Harry Potter Birthday Party post, check them out:
- Harry Potter Birthday Party Invitations
- Harry Potter Birthday Party Decorations
- Harry Potter Birthday Party Games and Activities
- Harry Potter Birthday Party - Great Hall and Honeydukes
Such a simple cake but the kids loved it!
It's a simple five layered chocolate and vanilla cake with vanilla frosting.
It's covered with marshmallow fondant. Let me be clear, I dislike regular fondant and try to avoid it like the plague! It tastes awful. When I use it, I make figurines (e.g. on our Plants vs Zombie cake) but would never cover a cake in it. But I had heard rumours that marshmallow fondant is not only easy to work with but also tastes waaaay better. So what the heck, I thought, let's try it.
It doesn't taste like marshmallows but it is sweet and pleasant tasting. More importantly all the kids (and my husband) ate it and liked it - not one peeled it off the cake! That says something!
It was easy to work with. Even though I rolled it a bit too thin, it still adhered to the cake well and it was easy to smooth out. The ribbons on the bottom of the cake hid a bit of messiness around the edges of the cake!
After it was covered, I added a bit of color gels to pieces of extra fondant. After rolling them out and cutting them into shapes (you can use whatever cookie cutters you have on hand or even cut them free style with a knife), I wrote on them with edible ink. The kids gave me their favorite spells and quotes from the Harry Potter books and movies and I just copied them onto individual fondant pieces. If you rub a tiny bit of water on the cake or the back of the fondant piece it will be easy to adhere it to the cake!
Note: Make sure you make the fondant a day or so in advance - it makes it much easier to work with.
Here are the sites I referred to when making our marshmallow fondant:
Great Video by My Cupcake Addiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaKqSND8sPc
