Hogwarts Cake

[hobnob]

Has an kind person any ideas as to how to go about making a Hogwarts cake?

That's any kind person.

It does seem ambitious, I grant you. But I know that it has been done. (I'd never have imagined a year ago that I'd be asking this question!)

I should imagine a fairy castle pattern done in suitable colours (maybe chocolate icing?) and with more towers and layers would do the trick. A bit wonky would add to the charm I reckon and is very easy to achieve with plenty of stiff butter icing.

Fairy castle is dead easy to make but a bit hard to describe. Start with two large-ish oblong sponge cakes, cut one to a square and stick on top of the other using the cut off bit to make steps from the oblong bit up to the square bit IYSWIM. Cover the whole lot in butter icing of a suitable colour. Stick four choc mini-rolls on top of the square cake, also iced for towers. Stick ice-cream cones on top of that to make the pointy bits of the tower, iced if you like, but they also look ok plain.

Stand the whole damn lot on a tray (in fact, put it together on a tray), then surround with chopped green jelly for a moat.

Decorate with angelica, bits of cut out ice cream wafer for windows, whatever takes your fancy.

You will need more butter icing than you can possibly imagine, and about an 8 to 10 egg victoria sponge.

god ideas takver. DS1 wants a Harry Potter for party in January. I might give it a go too

Thank you, Takver. That sounds impressive yet (fingers crossed) manageable. Thanks, too, for the tip about mountains of butter icing. I'll give it a go!

Have fun! I am the most un-creative and un-artistic person imaginable and even I can manage it - I got the pattern from a book years ago and having done that one have made quite a few other things along the same lines (including a pirate ship!).