DIY Harry Potter Cupcake Toppers
These Caramel Sorting Hat Harry Potter Cupcake Toppers are sure to delight any Harry Potter fan on their birthday. Pop them on top of chocolate cupcakes filled with buttercream or sweets in the four colours of the Hogwarts houses for a fun birthday cake idea.
Why This Recipe Works
- Fun Harry Potter Birthday Cake Idea.
- Easy to make cupcake toppers.
- They don't need to be perfect, the sorting hat is lumpy and rumpled anyway.
Ingredients you will need
To make the sorting hat cupcake toppers you actually only need 1 ingredient. Soft Caramels, I used the Werthers Originals Chewy Toffees. You will need 2 caramels to make each sorting hat cupcake topper
Ingredient Notes and Substitutes
These instructions are just to make the Harry Potter cupcake toppers. For everything to make harry potter cupcakes you will also need:
- 12 x chocolate cupcakes
- Chocolate buttercream
- Red, blue, yellow and green buttercream or coloured candy such as M&Ms.
How to make Harry Potter Cupcake Toppers
Step one: Warm two caramel/toffee sweets in your hands
Step two: Roll the first toffee into a ball. Just like you would roll playdough into a ball.
Step three: Place this ball on a piece of nonstick baking paper. Flatten the ball with the palm of your hand to make a flat disk. This will be the brim of the sorting hat.
Step four: Roll the second toffee into a cone shape, squish it a little to make it look like the rumpled shape of the sorting hat.
Step five: Use a spoon to create a mouth and 2 eyes. Store the sorting hat cupcake toppers in an air tight container in a cool place. If you live in a hot climate keep them in the fridge until you are ready to serve them.
Step six: Press the rumpled cone onto the disk, you now have a basic sorting hat. Store the sorting hat cupcake toppers in an air tight container in a cool place. If you live in a hot climate keep them in the fridge until you are ready to serve them
Enjoy!
Top Tips
Here is how you can make these Harry Potter Cupcakes perfectly every time!
Ok, I need to let you into a little secret, I was a little time-poor this year so didn't actually make the harry potter cupcakes myself, I just made the sorting hat cupcake toppers and popped them onto pre-maid cupcakes.
I outsourced the filled chocolate cupcake making to Spongedrop Cakery They regularly make filled cupcakes for baby sex announcements so were happy to make buttercream filled chocolate cupcakes for me in the colours of the Hogwarts houses.
You can, of course, make your own cupcakes, if you need a dairy-free cupcake recipe I have a great one on my website, for traditional chocolate cupcakes this recipe from Just a Mum is great.
Or alternatively, a packet cupcake will also be just fine too
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- Collection of Harry Potter Party Ideas
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Harry Potter Cupcake Toppers
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Ingredients
- 24 Soft toffee caramels I used Werther Original Chewy Toffees
Instructions
- Warm two caramel/toffee sweets in your hands.
- Roll the first toffee into a ball. Just like you would roll playdough into a ball. Place this ball on a piece of nonstick baking paper. Flatten the ball with the palm of your hand to make a flat disk. This will be the brim of the sorting hat.
- Roll the second toffee into a cone shape, squish it a little to make it look like the rumpled shape of the sorting hat.
- Use a spoon to create a mouth and 2 eyes. The rounded end of the spoon makes a down turned frowning mouth, and two diaganol lines are the sorting hat eyes.
- Press the rumpled cone onto the disk, you now have a basic sorting hat.
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