Harry Potter DIY Birthday Cake on JiffyWiz

How to make Harry Potter’s Birthday Cake, from the Sorcerer’s Stone, with a secret ingredient! Will we make Hagrid proud? Will we sit on our cakes? Find out now in the first video of my new channel!

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HARRY POTTER BIRTHDAY CAKE VIDEO:

CAKE RECIPE:
Chocolate Cake Recipe Maglebys Copycat by Karen @ The Food Charlatan

ICING RECIPE:
1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened + 1 Tbsp melted
2 cups confectioners sugar
1 ½ tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp milk or heavy cream
2 tsp unsweetened cocoa powder
Red and green food coloring (Or remade green icing)

1. Stir together 1 Tbsp melted butter and cocoa powder until dissolved, set aside.
2. In mixing bowl, mix butter and vanilla. In 1 cup batches, add sugar to butter, beat with electric mixer until fluffy and creamy. If you are going to pipe the green from this icing, set aside about ½ cup of icing.
3. Add red food coloring, a little at the time, until you arrive at pink. Start small, you can always add more. I found it to be too bright, so adding the butter/cocoa mix took off the bright edge and made it closer to the movie version.
4. Put a small amount of icing in middle and coat the outside.
5. Add green food coloring to the small set aside until you arrive at a vibrant green. Put in piping bag with a round tip.
Use toothpicks to draw out lettering on the pink icing and trace or use one of the templates below to guide you.

Green Icing Tip:
You can use Wilton’s premade green icing that comes with a tip that screws to make writing a snap. If you are really in to cake decorating, get a starter decorating kit for not much more and use your own icing. I like tip #5 or #8 for this cake.

Wilton Icing with Tip:
or
Wilton Kelly Green or Leaf Green Icing:
WIlton 3 Tip Set:
or
Wilton Starter Cake Decorating Tip Set:

ICING TEMPLATES FOR 8” or 9” CAKES:
Color-
Black and White-
Toothpick Red Dot Guide-

BONUS CAKE:
Buy a box of cake mix at the store and some strawberry icing and a Wilton premade green icing tube. Secret Ingredient: Simplicity

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VIDEO GEAR:

Camera:
I use: Canon Rebel T3i. May not be available much anymore.
I recommend (good entry level DSLR camera): Canon T6i:

For those who want to upgrade: Canon EOS 80d is my pick: (note, I have never used this camera, but would love it!)

Lens:
For most shots, I use a Yongnuo YN50mm F1.8 to get that blurry background look. The rest was the standard Canon 18-55mm that comes with camera.

Sound:
Audio Recorder- I use a separate handheld audio recording device and sometimes a lavalier microphone:
Movo Zoom H1n:
JK Lavalier Mic:

Lights:
Grey Card:
LimoStudio Light Kit:
I also made Indy Mogul’s DIY video light:

Software:
Adobe CS5 suite

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