Last weekend was a pretty busy weekend but I still wanted to get my cake baked and decorated for Mugglenet's birthday cake contest. So, over the course of three days, I managed to throw something together.
The first thing that popped into my head when I starting planning was the birthday cake that Hagrid made for Harry's 11th birthday. As this was probably the single nicest thing anyone had done for Harry in ten years, I felt it was really important to include it but I didn't want my contest cake to just be a replica of it. So I decided to make a mini version of Hagrid's cake as my cake topper. With the design mostly figured out it was time to get to the baking.
Now, I know that this is a cake that is supposed to honor Harry Potter (and it will!) but the Hufflepuff in me couldn't resist using my own house colors in the cake. Here are the yellow and black cake layers fresh out of the oven. You can find the tutorial for the zebra effect here.
After the layers were cooled, crumb coated and cooled again I was ready to decorate. This time I used Harry's house colors to create colored ribbons around the cake.
Next, the mini replica of Hagrid's cake. I paused to take a photo here mostly because I was scared to try to toss that baby cake on top of the main cake without completely destroying something...
Whew. Made it.
The contest rules were specific. You had to supply a photo of the cake, a photo of the cake cut open and a photo of you with the cake. This last one was a little tricky as I was home alone at the time. Eventually I got myself in the shot a little better than this...LOL!
I ate that big chunk of cake when I was finally done photographing. I totally earned it. : )
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