28 Magical Harry Potter Cakes You Must Try

Surprise your Harry Potter fan friends with these magical and mystical Harry Potter Cake ideas to make a perfectly themed cake.

A Few Words About Harry Potter Cake

Harry Potter has some serious fans all over the world. People love to own Harry Potter-themed stuff and have Harry Potter Cake at their birthday parties.

Harry Potter is a famous novel and movie with seven series of magic-filled fantasy stories about the life of young wizards admitted to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

These cake recipes will help throw a bashing party for your Harry Potter fan friend. The ideas and variety in these videos are unlimited. You can make a book cake, a birthday cake from Hagrid, or other figure cakes from the Harry Potter movie. All these cake ideas have something unique and magical to offer.

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If you are looking for some cool ideas to throw a themed party for a Harry Potter fan. Check out these detailed recipe tutorials to make the best cake for a Harry Potter-themed party.

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Amazing Harry Potter Cake

This Amazing Harry Potter Cake recipe will help you make a perfect minimal Harry Potter-themed cake. The cake layers are stacked one over another with meringue in between for a crispy flavor.

After adding the crumb coat, the cake is decorated with minimalist details. A cute little golden snitch topper is made to give this cake a themed look.

The snitch topper along with sugar flowers, are added to give the cake a final touch. Try this recipe to make a perfect birthday cake for a Harry fan.

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The Ultimate Harry Potter Birthday Cake

The Ultimate Harry Potter Birthday Cake ideas to throw a full-blown Harry Potter-themed party for a die-hard fan of the character. This tutorial does not show a single Harry Potter cake but various small details to make bits and pieces inspired by the Harry Potter movie.

Starting off with the center cake shows the tutorial on creating Harry’s uniform cake. Then the cauldron cake, book cake, and various other cakes and cake toppers to choose from.

You can try all or any of these tutorials according to your liking. All these cakes go well together on a Harry Potter theme party as they portray the real vibe from Hogwarts.

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Harry Potter Cake Ideas

Here is an amazingly cool video that has multiple Harry Potter Cake Ideas to make a three-tiered cake. You can use each idea to make a different cake instead of a 3-layered cake.

The first layer is made from a sheet cake to turn it into a Harry Potter Hogwarts battle board game. The second layer is a round cake showing different books from Hogwarts.

The third and most realistic layer is turned into a sorting hat, adding a new theme to the cake. Try out this incredibly amazing cake while hosting a birthday party for a Harry Potter fan.

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Harry Potter Cakes With Golden Stitch

Here is another minimal Harry Potter-themed cake With Golden Snitch to make your day. The cake has a red base coated with golden drip and red piped flowers on top.

A golden snitch cake topper further enhances the look of this cake. A complete tutorial on making and coloring the snitch is also shown in this video.

A Harry Potter logo is added to the side of the cake. The cake is then finished off with Harry’s wand to give it a full Harry Potter movie theme.

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Easy Harry Potter-inspired Cake

Another Easy Harry Potter-inspired Cake to add a perfect Harry Potter theme to your party. This one is a simple and elegant cake perfect for a person who is a Harry Potter fan.

The quiet and calm nature of the Harry Potter character is perfectly portrayed with this minimal cake. This cake has multiple cool toppers that can turn any plain cake into a character theme cake.

These toppers include Harry’s glasses, scarf, and wand with a golden snitcher to enhance the theme of the cake.

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Flavoured Harry Potter Cake Hagrid

This next cake is Flavoured Harry Potter Unicorn Cake from Hogwarts. The perfect twisted fondant with golded dust makes perfect detailing in the cake.

The overall theme of the cake is yellow and maroon, which gives a perfect Hogwarts school vibe. The cake has yummy vanilla layering and buttercream piping details with a unicorn horn on the top.

On the side of the cake is a detail of Harry’s glasses to give it a perfect look of a Hogwarts-inspired Unicorn Cake theme.

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Hogwarts Style Castle Harry Potter-Themed Cake

Here is the most detailed and visually appealing Hogwarts Style Castle Harry Potter Themed Cake for you to create for your loved ones’ birthday.

Harry Potter fans are very serious about the movie’s details and love to buy small things from Hogwarts and Harry Potter movies. Making this Hogwarts Style Castle Cake on their birthday will totally make up for their expectations.

It is a highly detailed cake with multiple towers and a dobby character sitting on one of them. This video shows a detailed tutorial on every small step to make this perfectly realistic cake.

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Harry Potter Birthday Cakes

This video shows another simple tutorial, a Harry Potter Birthday Cake with themed toppers. The realistic toppers are made using fondant and gum paste.

These realistic toppers include glasses, a scarf, a wand, and a snitch. The cake is covered with fondant and then topped with these tiny toppers to give it a perfect Harry Potter Birthday Cake look.

If you are looking for an easy cake idea to lighten up the theme of your party, do try this recipe out.

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Hagrid’s Hut Cake Tutorial

Here is a realistic Hagrid’s Hut Cake from the Harry Potter movie. The cake is made by joining and carving one 6″ with another 5″ cake.

Both are then given a hut shape and covered with chocolate ganache. The rest of the details are done by layering one fondant over the other and using molding tools to make perfect Huts.

After all the details are added, the cake is air-brushed to give it a rustic and mossy look. The final touches are added by adding a pumpkin lane around the cake.

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Harry Potter Birthday Cake Ideas

This video shows a completely detailed tutorial to create a Harry Potter Birthday Cake with various cool cake toppers.

This video makes the whole procedure pretty simple. These Harry Potter Birthday Cake Ideas will help you create a perfect themed cake for a Harry theme party.

The procedure starts by creating air-brushing a plain white cake to give it a rustic look. This is then followed by making an HP topper, books, and wand for the side and hat, scarf, and snitch on the top of the cake.

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Simple Harry Potter Cake Edible Cake Topper

This 2-tiered Simple Harry Potter Cake with Edible Cake Topper is an effortlessly impressive idea for any birthday or Halloween event.

The cake is decorated with fine details that are hand-crafted in this video. This is then topped with a special sorting hat topper. The video shows a complete tutorial about layering the base and making fine details on this hat.

Try out this amazing magical Simple Harry Potter Cake for a friend’s birthday who is obsessed with mysterious and magical movies.

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Happy Birthday Harry Potter Cake

This Harry Potter Cake is a perfect addition to Harry Potter-themed birthday parties. This cake uses strawberry cake and filling to layer the cake.

After adding the crumb coat, the cake is topped with black fondant. The rest of the details are done using grey fondant and cutting it into a 2D castle. Some toppers are also added using fondant.

The final finish is given by adding edible gold color to the cake. This cake is perfect for any Harry’s fan or even for Halloween parties.

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Extreme Hagrid Harry Potter Birthday Cake

This Extreme Harry Potter Birthday Cake is a little time-consuming, but the final cake is perfect. The cake is crumb-coated after layering the cake.

Then different 2D toppers are made using buttercream and melted chocolate. Printed pictures are used to trace these toppers using melted chocolate.

The cake is given various effects on each side and then topped with these cool toppers. Each side of the cake tells a different story from the Harry Potter movie. Try this perfectly detailed recipe to surprise a Harry Potter fan.

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Harry Potter Birthday Cakes Ideas

This video has incredibly detailed Harry Potter Birthday Cakes Ideas to make a perfect Harry Potters uniform cake with cool cake toppers. The cake is first coated in a chocolate ganache and then topped with greyish-white fondant.

The detailing is added using red and yellow fondant to make the uniform scarf and tie. You can change the color according to your favorite Hogwarts house. After lying a nice uniform base, more cake toppers, including a sorting hat, magic wand, etc., are added to the top of the cake.

The Harry Potter font is used to write anything on the cake. It is a perfect birthday cake for someone who is a little too obsessed with the Harry Potter movie.

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Harry Potter Cake From Hogwarts

This Harry Potter Cake From Hogwarts is made with a lot of fun filling and cool details on top. The cakes are layered with a filling of buttercream cobwebs, colorful candy, chips, and many more.

After layering, it is crumb-coated with a darker shade of butterscotch buttercream. This recipe’s idea is to make Harry Potter Butterbeer Mega Cake.

So white buttercream is used to make the foam of the beer, and more cobwebs are used to surround the cake. The cake is then finished off with chocolate frogs and flies made with shaped molds.

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Cute Kawaii Easy Harry Potter Cakes

Another Cute Kawaii Easy Harry Potter Cake to make your kid’s birthday extra special. This cake has a lot of cool details that give a perfect Harry Potter vibe.

The cake is first airbrushed to give it a misty effect on the side topped with black trees. The topper is made into fine castle details and three characters from the Harry Potter movie.

All the details on the cake and the topper give a super magical final look to the cake. This cake is also perfect for graduation or bachelorette parties.

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Harry Potter Theme Birthday Cake

This Harry Potter Theme Birthday Cake has a pretty complex procedure to follow, but you can get an idea of converting your plain cake to Harry theme cake.

It is a two-tiered cake with yellow and black Hogwarts uniform details on the bottom tier and striped yellow fondant on the second tier.

The cake is then topped off with a giant sorting hat figure to give it a perfect final look. Several other toppers and details are also added to make this cake more relatable to the movie’s theme.

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Easy Harry Potter Cakes

The quickest and simplest cake idea is this Easy Harry Potter Cake that will help throw a full-blown Harry Potter-themed party.

Making these beginner-friendly simple cake toppers can convert any plain or store-bought into a Harry-themed cake within minutes. The procedure and the step are minimal, saving a lot of your time and giving you a perfect themed cake.

Try out this amazing recipe to surprise your friend, a Harry Potter fan, and they will truly be amazed by your creativity and baking skills.

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Easy Harry Potter Theme Cake

Here is a super simple and quick Easy Harry Potter Theme Cake to make your day. This cake uses two colors to make a stripe effect around the cake.

The cake is then topped off with hand-crafted toppers, including Harry’s glasses, a magic wand, and a gold snitch, all made with colored fondant. The final touches are added by writing Happy Birthday in italic font.

This yummy cake will help you throw an incredible theme party for a Harry fan. It is also the perfect cake for hosting Halloween parties at home.

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Anyone who watches and loves Harry Potter is well aware of the famous Books from the movie. One is the Harry Potter Book Of Spells, and the other is the Book Of Monsters. These cake ideas will help you create a realistic Harry Potter Book Cake at home. 

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Harry Potter Cake Simple Book of Monsters

A spooky Harry Potter Cake with a Simple Book of Monsters theme makes a perfect fit for Halloween parties. All the detailing on this cake is done with buttercream except the monster jaws.

A white buttercream is first used to make the pages on the sheet cake. A fondant is used to make the jaws and teeth of the monster. Further details are added using brown buttercream to make tapered end hairs all over the monster’s book.

The final finish is done by adding the eyes and writing the name of the book. This is a perfect idea to make Harry Potter Sheet Cakes uniquely and realistically.

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Simple Harry Potter Cakes

This Harry Potter sheet cake decorated with fondant will help you make a perfectly Simple Harry Potter Cake with antique detailing to give it an amazing look.

A sheet cake is topped with a chocolate buttercream crumb coat and then covered with white fondant. A brown fondant is then used to cover both sides of the book. An airbrush is used to give a brownish effect to the book’s pages.

The final detailing is added by making various toppers colored in edible gold. These pretty royal cake toppers give this cake an antique look.

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Book of Monsters Harry Potter Birthday Cakes Ideas

This video has cool Harry Potter cakes ideas to make a super realistic Book of Monsters. The detailing is hand-crafted with gum paste. The process starts by adding the filling and base coat.

This is then topped with white fondant with fine lines to make book pages. The pages don’t need to be perfect as it is an old book. A brown fondant adds further details of the monster’s tentacle, nostrils, and hair.

A pinkish paste is used to make the gums and tongue of the monster. This is a perfectly detailed tutorial to make a Book of Monsters cake from Harry Potter.

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Easy Harry Potter Cake Ideas

Anyone who watches and loves Harry Potter is well aware of the famous Book Of Monsters from the movie. These Easy Harry Potter Cake Ideas to make each detail of this book cake can help you throw a perfect theme party for a Harry Potter fan.

This one is a similar tutorial to creating Harry Potter’s Book of Monsters Cake but with easy and quick ideas to make all the fine details in a short time.

The recipe uses white and brown color fondant and some molding tools to give the hairy monster book details to this sheet cake.

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Easy Harry Potter Book Cake

Harry Potter spell book cake is a perfect thing to create for a Harry Potter fan’s birthday. This Easy Harry Potter Book Cake has a super simple tutorial to make a themed book with antique details and a Harry Potter logo topper.

Try out this super simple recipe by layering the cake and covering it with fondant. The final details are cut with shaped cutters and colored gold to give it a perfectly rustic and antique Harry Potter Book Cake look.

This recipe is also beginner friendly as it does not use complicated methods to create this cake.

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We all need someone to make us a perfect cake for our birthday. Here are some cool ideas to make a Harry Potter birthday cake similar to one that Hagrid made for Harry’s birthday in the movie.

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Simple Harry Potter Cakes

Here is Harry’s 11th birthday cake from Hagrid that shows a detailed tutorial to get the best flavor out of all Simple Harry Potter Cakes. The recipe uses all the baking ingredients from Nestle.

After following all the instructions, you get a perfectly moist chocolate cake which is topped with nice pink frosting. The frosting and the writing on the cake need not be perfect, as the original cake from the movie is a bit messy bit the wrong spellings.

This is one of the most special memories from Harry Potter movies, and making this cake for a Harry Potter fan will make their day extra special.

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Hagrid Harry Potter Birthday Cake

Another Hagrid’s Harry Potter Birthday Cake is here to rescue your day. It is a simple 2-layered cake crumb-coated with salmony pink frosting.

After getting the perfect base coat, the second coat is added that does not need to be perfectly smooth.

As the original cake has lines in it and the writings on it are a bit messy, you’ll have to do the same to give it a similar look. Try out this extreme Hagrid Harry Potter Birthday Cake to surprise a Harry Potter fan.

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Harry Potter Birthday Cake Hagrid

This Harry Potter Birthday Cake from Hagrid is imperfectly perfect according to the theme. The cake is baked with special ingredients, then filled and topped with pale pink icing.

This gives an incredibly messy look to this cake. The crack in the middle of this cake and the messy writing make it look like the original Harry Potter 11^th Birthday cake made by Hagrid.

This is a quick and simple idea to make something special for a Harry Potter fan and bring back memories from the first movie.

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Harry Potter Cake Easy

Another Harry Potter Cake that is Easy to create and super wonderful to look at. This cake shows another way to make a chocolate cake topped with pink buttercream icing.

Incorporating each ingredient properly and baking the cake correctly is crucial to get a perfect final product. After the cake is baked, it is topped with nice pink-colored buttercream, similar to a cake that Hagrid made for Harry Potter.

The cake is finished off by writing happy birthday Harry in bright pink color on the cake.

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