When my friend Jessica said she wanted me to make her 13th birthday cake I was like 'yeah sure can't wait'. Then she told me the theme was Harry Potter and all I could picture was the amazing Potter cakes I had seen Duff make on Ace Of cakes - I was a little worried to say the least!
After a couple of days of trying to think up ideas on what to do I ended up looking through all the photos of other Harry Potter cakes on the Internet. They were all either Hogwarts or the train or Harry's head. Basically there were a lot of similar ideas going on so I left the Internet even more confused on what to do.
After a couple of weeks (really) I finally decided I was going to make Harry, Ron and Hermione figures and have them studying away in a dorm room type scene. It took a while to get the figures made and once I'd finished them I had gone off the dorm room idea all together.
Four days before the cake had to be finished and handed over to Jess I had finally made up my mind: I was going to make the Whomping Willow scene complete with Ron's rat Scabbers. It didn't take long for it to take shape once I'd made the tree out of rice crispy mixture and covered it in fondant. The rock Harry is sat on was also made with crispy treats. The main cake was checker board with chocolate and vanilla sponge and covered in vanilla butter icing and the top layer was covered in green fondant so that the figures didn't end up mushy.
I was really excited when I put the finishing touches to it and Jessica loved it.
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