If you do a search on Pinterest for Harry Potter Cupcakes you'll come up with some amazing ideas that take at least 10 different colors of fondant that were way out of my league for trying to replicate. If you search for Harry Potter Cakes, you'll come up with hundreds of absolutely astounding cakes that I'm sure took a professional baker days to make (you really should check them out...they're amazing)...so I looked through the ideas until I found some I thought I could manage and settled on some golden snitches. It's a nice bonus that Katie's favorite thing about the first Harry Potter movie is the quidditch match scene.
Katie also got Quidditch through the Ages as one of several books she got for her birthday, so it went along nicely.
You start by...
...melting some white chocolate according to the directions on the package. For me that meant microwaving it on the defrost setting for about a minute at a time until it was melted and smooth and stirring after each minute. Then I put it all into a ziploc bag, snipped the corner off. To keep the sizes of the wings the same, I drew the outline of the shape I wanted on a piece of paper. Then I put that under the freezer paper and followed the lines as I piped the white chocolate out.
I'd started out doing the wings separately, but then realized from a physics/center of mass standpoint, it was better to have them balanced, and I included kind of a ball shape to have something bigger to poke down into the cupcake.
The wings are surprisingly strong for being as thin as they look...but you definitely want to make extra sets of wings because you WILL break a few. Let them cool COMPLETELY. I put mine in the freezer in a sealed container so they'd be as hard as possible for putting into the cupcakes.
I used regular buttercream frosting for the tops with mostly yellow and a little orange food coloring to get kind of a golden color.
Pop the wings in...and you'll have a whole flock of snitches in no time.
No pictures of them AT the party because the battery died on the camera...and there's not much time for picture taking with 15 little witches and wizards running around...but I had some fun photographing the last one after the party.Stay tuned for more Harry Potter fun...
See these links for more details about other Harry Potter themed crafts we've done...and be sure to check back because I'll be adding more as I get them written up.
Harry Potter Party Overview | Printable Hogwarts Acceptance Letter/Party Invites | Golden Snitch Cupcakes |
Harry Potter Potions Ornaments  | Harry Potter Shirt - Freezer Paper Stencil  | Easy Harry Potter Wands  |
Printable Hogwarts Library Book Plates  |
Rocket Ship Original Painting from nJoy Art | Faith in God Makes Me Stronger from Shirleen Bland's Art Studio |
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