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Sunday Sweets: Potter Mania
November 21, 2010 Whether you're seeing the movie this weekend or not, I think you'll agree that these Harry Potter cakes are sweet enough to rival anything in HoneyDuke's:
Made by BakingdomD'awww. Lookit the little broom! And Fawkes! And the itty-bitty potion bottles!!
Ahem.
Sorry.
Next check out this nifty design:
I love the tie. And the snitch. And the turrets. And the...oh, you get the idea.
Here's an adorable cartoon-y version from all the way over in China:
Found at DIY Cakes in BeijingLove it!
And this one is the spitting image of young Daniel Radcliffe:
Submitted by Rory L., found here (click to see the adorable HP party pics!) & made by Shelby Lynn's Cake ShoppeCheck out the sculpted marzipan on this one:
By Dutch CakeboxSo perfect!
And finally, I have a special affection for the Monster Book of Monsters:
By Cake Central member mbpbrighteyes
Although really everything here is amazing. Just look at that wand! And the wings on the snitch! Even the little bag of coins is made of two cupcakes, wrapped in fondant. Wowza.
Have a Sweet to nominate? Then send it to Sunday Sweets [at] Cake Wrecks [dot] com.
Reader Comments (39)
The Monster Book of Monsters cake is awesome!
I'm not keen on the films but the books are amazing :D
Lucy
WV: beande. I guess I have a bean-de bonnet when it comes to being true to the book :)
OMG too sweet
these are so much fun!
D'awwww! So presh.
-Leighton
I want a Harry Potter cake. Too bad I'm 25 years old.
On the second cake, the tower windows look like mouths, like they're going to break into song.
OH. MY. GOSH. I saw the bakingdom cake even before it was on sunday sweets! I love her blog, and you should totally check it out!
How do they get the snitches gold?!? These are so awesome! And it's really nice to see the book inspired artwork.
I love the monster book cake. :)
Saw the movie on Friday.....L O V E!
One thing that slightly bothered me was that Luna's dad should have been much older.
I'm glad I haven't read the book in a while or I'm sure that wouldn't be the only thing that would bother me.
Monster Book of Monsters FTW! Definitely my favorite.
Personally, I'd like to see a mandrake cake.
Love the castle towers. :)
Great looking HP cakes!
Thanks for sharing the cuteness =).
Why aren't Harry's eyes green on either of those cakes???? Otherwise, they'd be gorgeous - but a blue-eyed Harry is all wrong!
I super heart the second one with the tie and the turrets...
I love the simplicity of some of these that shows the theme perfectly
W V - snetasa = a magic word to keep from sneezing at the wrong moment.
The cakes look fantastic. I especially like the monster book!
When you hear one of your cakes is on cake wrecks the first thing you do is panic...
Sunday Sweets however is a whole different story!! Thanks for liking my Monster Book!! :)
Melanie (mbpbrighteyes)
Aww! I want the Monster Book of Monsters cake!
And more HP-related cakes! :)
I WANT A MONSTER BOOK OF MONSTER CAKE!!! Wow!! That is amazing!!
:) Mags
I have to agree with the other Joanna (great name, btw!) Why are Harry's eyes blue on these cakes? It is noted over and over again in the books that he has his mother's green eyes. Other than that, I LOVE these cakes, and I also loved the movie. We attended the midnight premiere Thursday night and it was totally worth only getting about 2 1/2 hours of sleep before I had to go to work Friday morning!
I'm totally jealous of the Harry Potter birthday party!! And all the cakes are amazing!!
Love, love, love these! Can't decide which one I like best: the one with Hogwarts with the shirt and tie base, or the Monster Book of Monsters. Oh, and the one with Fawkes is amazing...
4th cake: Harry's eyes are GREEN. Duh.
Awesome! I'm much more than 25, but I'd take any of them for my birthday!
Boob Nazi -- go for it.
~~Di
For those wondering about blue-eyed Harry, he's got blue eyes in the movies. (Which somehow doesn't bug me as much as the fact that his hair isn't nearly messy enough!)
WV: whinc. We geeks sometimes have to whinc at changes when our beloved books become movies (or cakes).
Beautiful cakes, but for a 3 year-old? 5 year-old?
"Here Honey,let Mommy tell you all about the rotting dead people coming out of the lake... now, go night-night."
And now for some serious Nerditude: On the first cake, I think the letters on the various potion bottles stand for "Felix Felicis" (liquid luck), "Amortentia" (love potion), and "Veritaserum" (truth juice)! Clearly the bakers are die-hard fans, too :D
To the 2 JoAnnas: Harry's eyes are probably blue on the cakes because Daniel Radcliffe has blue eyes. He couldn't tolerate the contacts, so Chris Colombus decided to just keep his blue eyes. In the movies, his eye color is never mentioned. All anyone says is that he has his mother's eyes. So, although not technically canon, it works if the actress playing Lily has blue eyes, too. The cake is probably modeled after the Harry in the movies, and thus has blue eyes.
It's a change that many fans have noticed (and many complained about), but I guess as long as the importance of Harry having Lily's eyes is kept, then the color green loses its importance.
Just my 2 cents.
Amazingly, the "portrait" cake in this post is baked in the same pan as the last one in Friday's "wrecks." What a difference the skill of the decorator makes! ;)
Though I will say, at least the "wreck" version got the green eyes right!
I guess it would help if I understood the world of Potter. The brown pointy thing to the left of the first cake looked rather poo-ish to me. I guess some things are wrecky only if taken out of context. I liked the cake though, even though I don't understand the red chicken. The rest are really nice too.
WV: fainsua
No snarky comment, I just think it has a cool, Shakespearean ring to it!
I loved all of them and I have only seen three of the movies.. guess I really better pick up the pace lol.
I can't wait for the Potter hype to die down >.<
HI
Great information in this post but there are many students likes these types of cakes.
Why are there cakes for 3 and 5 year olds? Harry potter is not for these kids, Dora and Bob the builder are. Mind you they're awesome cakes and I'd want one I just don't know if 3 year olds get it... Unless of course the cakes are really for the parents to enjoy.
Wow, those are so awesome! I love HP and these cakes are great. The only thing that I have to complain about is that first one. The decorations are so great and so well-done, but... it's on a white cake with little flowers. It looks like they took a wedding cake and stuck some HP stuff on it as an afterthought, lol. But the others are so well-designed!
*sigh*
This makes me happy.
I love the inclusion of the Sorting Hat! I'd love a cake just of the Sorting Hat! Too bad I'm as old as dirt. Maybe when I'm as old as a stone someone will buy one for me.
Saw the movie last night, loved it!!!! I'm not sure I can wait the 8 months until the last part comes out!
But those cakes....wow.
I want a snitch like that....
Harry Potter is my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love these cakes and i want to eat them all, but then I'd be fat AND nerdy. Oh well, *sigh*