This Harry Potter Cake is to celebrate Harry Potter’s birthday! Inspired by the cake given to Harry in Sorcerer’s Stone from Hagrid, this cake is a delicious white cake with vanilla buttercream. Hargrid’s baking skills leave much to be desired but this Harry Potter Birthday Cake is so tasty you won’t have any leftovers!
Harry’s Birthday is July 31 and I just couldn’t let this day pass without celebrating one of my favorite characters!
Easy to make, tasty, and moist, this Harry Potter Cake is fun to for any Harry Potter party!
To make this Harry Potter Birthday Cake:
- Combine your vegetable oil, vanilla, sour cream, heavy cream, egg whites.
- Mix in your box cake mix.
- Divide cake batter into your prepared (buttered and floured) cake Pans. Bake at 325°F for 25 minutes.
- Let your cakes cool completely.
- Mix up your vanilla butter cream and color the frosting accordingly.
- Crumb coat at least one of the cakes and then decorate!
- Enjoy!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone- both a great movie and book! Make this cake from the movie to celebrate Harry Potter’s Birthday!
This fun Harry Potter inspired cake is easy to make and fun to decorate!
Do you love the books or movies better? I’m a huge fan of reading, but I thought they did a great job with the movies overall! I talk about some of my other favorite books here!
Last week I made a StarCraft Anniversary Cake and used a lot of the same ingredients. This white cake recipe is really versatile and just an overall great basic cake recipe. If you want to make a cake from scratch check out my homemade chocolate cake recipe and then decorate it to celebrate Harry’s Birthday!
In addition to Harry Potter, what do you love to read? I’m always looking for more awesome reading material!
Do you have a favorite Harry Potter moment, let me know in a comment below! I love talking all things Harry Potter!
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If you like this recipe, check out my Portal Chocolate Cake, Disneyland inspired Sugar Cookies and Mint Julep, or anything on my Hearthstone Menu (like Acidic Ooze Limeade, Card Pack Cakes, and Shudderwock Cucumber Avocado Salad!)
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Harry Potter Cake
Ingredients
For the Cake
- 1 box white cake mix I used Pillsbury brand
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 tbs vanilla
- ¾ cup sour cream
- ¾ cup heavy cream
- 4 egg whites
For the Best White Butter Cream Frosting
- 1 cup butter cold and cut into chunks
- 5 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tbs vanilla
- 5 tbs heavy cream
- Pinch of salt
- Neon purple and green food coloring
Extra Items Needed for Decorating
- 6 inch cake pans I use 3 at a time
- 1 6 in carboard cake round optional
- 1 8 in carboard cake round optional
- Cake Decorating Turntable optional
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325°F. Prep your cake rounds by covering the inside of the pans with a light layer of butter and then dusting with flour. I like to use my fingers to make sure the butter gets in all seams.
- Mix together, either by hand or in a stand mixer, the oil, vanilla, sour cream, heavy cream and egg whites. Then mix in the boxed cake mix. Divide the batter between the 3 cake rounds.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Make sure to bake all the cakes on the same oven rack so they bake evenly.
- Let the cakes cool for 5 minutes then flip upside down onto a wire cooling rack and remove the pans. They should come out easily.
- Let the cakes cool completely before frosting.
To make the frosting:
- In a stand mixer, whip your butter chunks on medium high speed until the butter is light and fluffy.
- Add in the powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, letting it mix into the butter completely.
- Add in the vanilla, heavy cream, and pinch of salt, allowing the ingredients to incorporate fully.
- Measure out approximately 1.5 cups of frosting and mix in the green food coloring to it. Add neon purple color to the remaining frosting and mix in completely.
- Refrigerate both frostings for 15-20 minutes to allow it to thicken up before using to decorate. If the frosting is too thick after refrigerating, it will soften up quickly at room temperature. So just be patient. If the frosting is too runny, add more powdered sugar to thicken it.
To decorate the cake:
- On the cake decorating turntable, if using, place an 8 inch cardboard round (if using), then place a 6 inch round (if using) on top of that. Taping the 6 in to the 8 inch round is also advised. If not using any of the above just place the cake on what you are wanting to serve the cake on, but remember it has to fit in the freezer for a little while!
- Add a spoonful of frosting to the center of the 6 inch round (or cake serving plate) and place your bottom cake layer on top, centered on the 6 inch cardboard round.
- Add a crumb coat layer of frosting over the entire cake using the purple frosting*. A crumb coat layer is a thin layer of frosting that helps keep all the crumbs stuck to the cake and allows you to frost the cake really nicely later on. The crumb coat is not supposed to be pretty!
- Stick your crumb coated cake in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- After 10 minutes, remove the cake and frost with the final layer of purple frosting, This does not have to be pretty since you want it to look like Hagrid made it! Using a butter knife make several lines so it looks like the cake was pieced together.
- Then using a writing piping tip, piping bag and green frosting, pipe on HAPPEE BIRTHDAE HARRY.
- Slice, enjoy and watch all the movies!
Notes
I am not affiliated with Harry Potter, JK Rowling, or WarnerBros. This is a fan made inspired by the movie recipe.
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