Harry Potter Birthday Cake - DIY

Thank you so much for 15.000 subscribers! I'm celebrating with a cake that I've longed to make for a long time ;) Harry's birthday cake :D
I had fun making this one, but this is probable one of the very few baking creations I will ever make ;) hope you enjoy even though I could have used a better green icing in this video :D

Step 1
The Cake 00:05

I ended up making this x2 to get a higher cake :)

200g Room tempered butter
270g Granulated sugar
3 eggs
60g Cocoa powder
300g Flour
½ tbs Baking powder
1 ½ tbs Baking soda
1 tbs Vanilla powder
1 tbs Salt
270g Ice cold water

00:09 Cover the bottom of a springform or cake pan with removable bottom
00:16 Grease the side
00:19 Dust with cocoa

00:23 Beat butter and sugar until white and fluffy
00:31Add the eggs one at a time
00:43 Sieve the dry ingredients together in a separate bowl
00:52 Add some of the dry ingredients and alternate with the water
01:10 Pour it in to the cake pan
01:15 Bake for about 35-40 minutes at 175 degrees Celsius
01:16 Take of the rim and let cool completely

Step 2
Nutella Mousse 01:21

2 Gelatin sheets
300g Nutella
3 dl Whipping cream
If you want, raspberries :3


01:25 Add the gelatin sheets in cold water for 5 minutes
01:27 Heat half of the cream with Nutella on the stove until smooth
01:35 Add the gelatin sheets in the warm cream
01:38 Let it dissolve and allow to cool
01:43 Pour the remaining cream
01:46 Whisk it together so it gets creamy


01:50 Level the bottom
01:55 Add the rim
01:58 Pour in the mousse
02:00 Add some berries if you want


Step 3
Strawberry Mousse 02:04

250g Strawberries
2 tbsp of icing sugar
2 tbs lemon juice
4dl Whipping cream
4 Gelatin Sheets
Pink or Red food coloring


02:07 Pour all the ingredients into a pot and heat it up on the stove until boiling
02:11 Mash the strawberries
02:15 Sieve them to remove lumps and seeds
02:27 Add the gelatin sheets in cold water for 5 minutes
02:31 Add the gelatin sheets in the warm strawberry sauce. If needed, reheat the sauce in the microwave for a few seconds to dissolve the gelatin, let cool down
02:35 Pour the cream into a bowl
02:38 Add the food color
02:41 Whisk until fluffy
02:45 In another bowl, add the strawberry sauce
02:46 Add the whipped cream in small portions until fully combined
03:00 For easier control when applying the mousse to the cake, I used a disposable piping bag :)

Step 4
Letters 03:06

Green Icing for cakes, like buttercream frosting or something like that.
Template: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...

!! I used the wrong type of icing for the letters… so they will melt, if you use the wrong one, if the cake is not to be consumed right after you have applied the letters!! :)

Pipe on the letters directly on the cake if you are not going to use the same method as me :) Use the template and trace it on the surface of the cake with a tooth pick and then pipe on the green buttercreamfrosting :D


Assembling the cake!

03:35 Place the cake on a nice plate :D
03:37 Add the top layer, bottoms up for a nice and smooth surface ;)
03:41 Pipe on a small amount of the strawberry mousse, a crumb coat
03:57 Let the mousse set in the freeser for a few minuets
03:59 Add the rest of the mousse and smooth it out, place in in the fridge until the mousse setts
04:15 Use a template to trace out the cracks on the cake
04:30 Pipe on the letters instead of placing them out, use buttercramfrosting

04:57 you can actually see the icing melting here ;)





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