Who’s this Harry Potter???

So tomorrow the final chapter of the most amazing story comes to an end.  I’m sure you’ve heard of this young wizard named Harry and if not, what rock have you been living under?  I’m not sure who’s more excited.  The legions of youngsters for whom the books were written or the mother’s of said youngsters.  Just reading all the twitter feeds and blogs that have been dedicated to this upcoming event would indicate the latter.  I would be included in this group for sure. 

I think the movies have been playing non-stop on ABC Family for the last few weeks and sure enough as I flip through I can’t go past the channel.  We introduced the first movie to Abby and Rowan about 3 weeks ago because of all the commercials for the new one kept coming on.  They would announce each time they wanted to go but I felt they should probably see the first before they see the last and maybe the 7 other movies too.  Don’t panic, I won’t let them watch past the 3rd one, as they are a bit dark.  But I have to say, they loved it!  It’s funny because in Canada and pretty much every where else in the world, the first movie is Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, but here in the US it’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.  I’m not entirely sure why but there you go.  So when they here Sorcerer’s Stone they correct whoever said it, it’s very cute especially coming from Rowan who’s 3 :)

I loved reading the books.  I would get up first thing on the days they were released and run to the store to get them. I would do nothing else until I had read every page.  Nope I’m not a nutter who went to the mid-night release or dressed up.  I also loved watching the movies and following the young stars as they grew as their characters did.  They did an amazing job on these movies.

Recently I saw this video where the stars said in one word what the movies were to them. It’s amazing.

wow!

Now I’d like to take you on a tour of some amazing Harry Potter treats!  There are so many, these are but just a few!

Bake at 350 (http://www.bakeat350.blogspot.com/)

Firefly Confections (http://www.fireflyconfections.com)

Bakingdom (http://bakingdom.com)

Victorious Cupcakes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/victoriouscupcakes/5925328503/in/photostream/)

Sweet Avenue Bake Shop (http://www.sweetavenuebakeshop.com/)

and mine! Trilogy Edibles

Thanks for looking and enjoy all things Harry Potter!

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Happy Birthday Eamonn – Harry Potter and Star Wars Cookies

My nephew is the biggest cutie petutey on the planet and it saddens me that we live even farther away than we did in Ottawa. And this year he turns the big number 5!!! When I asked what he wanted for his birthday, my sister said cookies (as a joke I think) but anything Harry Potter, Star Wars or Angry Birds. So of course I obliged for cookies, except I don’t know anything about Angry Birds (yes I live under a rock and no, I don’t have an iPhone). As Star Wars is my favourite movie and Harry Potter closely follows, it was an easy decision. What was hard was how I was going to do it.

My cookie decorating is in it’s youth, so I looked to my cookie guru’s at Sweetopia, Sweet Sugar Belle and Bakeat350. I had seen and, of course can’t find again, a website that piped the icing onto parchment and then placed them onto the cookies. So I found some fun cartoony characters of Harry, Ron and Hermione as well as Luke, Lea, C3P0, Darth and R2D2. It took several hours to pipe out, using parchment piping bags due to the size of the details and then dry.

Harry Potter cookies were up first. First was to outline the characters. I wanted to make sure the black was done first as it tends to bleed if it’s not completely dry.

I then added the colour once the black was dry. This was painstaking, my back was not so happy about this but they turned out awesome!!!

Next up were the Star Wars cookies.

Then added the detail and to the cookie and voila!

Next time I’ll attempt to pipe right onto the cookies, the decals were very fragile and several didn’t make it!

This was a lot of fun as these were my first really detailed cookies. It also proved to myself that yes I can do it! Feeling pretty pumped about these cookies and praying they make it unharmed when I ship them north. I know Eamonn with love them! I hope he likes his prezzies too!

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