Find out which Hogwarts house you belong in with these fun Sorting Hat Cupcakes
This last week my sister made these incredible sorting hat cupcakes to celebrate Harry Potter’s Birthday. I have seen other sorting hat cupcakes, but none that I liked as much as these that my sister made. I totally want to make them to take to my friend’s annual Harry Potter party that she throws every October. They were so amazing, I also just had to put up the tutorial on my blog to show you how to make them yourself.
The cupcakes are your basic Chocolate cupcakes with the center cut out and filled with M&Ms then topped with a rich buttercream frosting that is sprinkled with gold sprinkles and a fun little Sorting Hat cut from black cardstock (using a Cricut machine)
Harry Potter Sorting Hat Cupcakes
These easy to make Sorting Hat cupcakes are the perfect treat for a Harry Potter Party!
Ingredients
- Sorting Hat Cupcake Toppers
Chocolate Cupcakes
- 1 Box Betty Crocker Super Moist Chocolate Fudge Cake Mix
- 1 1/4 Cups of Water
- 3 Eggs
- 1/2 Cup Oil
Butter Cream Frosting
- 1 Cup (2 sticks) softened Butter
- 4 Cups Powered Sugar
- 2 Tablespoons Milk
- 1 teaspoon (real) Vanilla Extract
Instructions
Bake 2 Dozen Chocolate Muffins according to the instructions on the Betty Crocker Chocolate Fudge Cake Box
Use #A2 Round Icing tip to cut a hole in the top of the cupcakes.
Fill cupcakes with M&M's. 1 color for each cupcake representing one of the Hogwarts Houses (Red = Gryffindor, Green = Slytherin, Blue = Ravenclaw & Yellow = Hufflepuff)
Replace the cut-out cupcake top over the M&M's
Make Butter Cream frosting:
- Cream butter with a mixer
- Slowly add in powder sugar
- add milk and vanilla
- Thoroughly mix together (if you need to thin the icing at all add more milk 1 teaspoon at a time.
Use #1M Open Star Icing tip to make a shabby chic icing rose on the top of each cupcake
Sprinkle with gold sprinkles and top with the Black cardstock Simple Sorting Hat Cupcake Topper.
Notes
**Any Chocolate Cake mix will do for these cupcakes. So if you prefer the flavor of Devil's Food, or German Chocolate go for it!
Other fillings (for if you don't want to use M&M's:
- Colored Frosting
- Colored sprinkles
- Nerds
- Crushed jolly ranchers
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Wilton Non-Stick Bakeware Muffin and Cupcake Pan, 12-Cup
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Wilton Pearlized Gold Sprinkle Medley, 3.8 oz. - Walmart.com
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Sorting Hat Cupcake Topper
Cut these adorable sorting house cupcake toppers out of cardstock with your Cricut Machine.
Materials
Instructions
- Get free Sorting Hat SVG Cut File --> HERE
- Upload into Cricut Design Space and size to 2 1/4 inches wide
- Copy 24 times and then click to make it.
- Load black cardstock onto standard grip mat and load into Cricut
- After cutting use spatula from the essential tool kit to remove sorting hat cupcake toppers from the mat.
- Place on frosted cupcakes.
Notes
If you don't have a Cricut Maker you can do this project on an Explore machine.
You can tape the sorting hat cupcake toppers to a toothpick to stick in the cupcakes but they look great just placed upright in the frosting.
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My sister said she considered doing a butterbeer frosting but as much as I enjoy a good butter beer the rich vanilla goodness of the butter cream frosting just went soo well with the decadent chocolate cupcakes.
The only question is: Which house do you hope you will be sorted into with these delicious cupcakes??
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