Hagrid and Buckbeak Cake

The Hagrid and Buckbeak cake was inspired by a scene from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban movie. The characters were the only part of the cake that were not edible but should last, as like a reminder of the cake. The characters were made out of fondant and sugar paste to help keep the bodies shapes.

The main cake was a chocolate Madeira cake with chocolate butter cream center, the hut was made out of rice crispies and chocolate so I could carve and mould to the right shape and then covered in brown and blue fondant. The chimney was made out of cake pop mixture and chilled in the fridge for an hour and a bit and then covered in grey fondant so it would keep its shape. The last components were the pumpkin cake pops, and the marzipan and chocolate matchsticks which made up the fire.

I really enjoyed putting this cake together, I have to admit that on the day it had to be ready for I was worried it wouldn't get finished. Thankfully I had one of those get your butt into action moments and worked solid for a number of hours and had fun in the end placing the components on the cake and adding those final touches like the rice crispies that had been carved off the hut were crushed down and sprinkled under where Buckbeak sat and made a little path outside of the hut.