I got to try Harry Potter's "official" birthday cake and while it was completely magical, it was a bit too sweet for me. If you're a fan of Harry Potter lore, you might know that the famous wizard ...

Claire Ptak making Meghan Markle and Price Harry's wedding cake in 2018. If you only have frozen cherries make sure they are thawed, drained and patted dry before using. Claire Ptak's Cherry Clafoutis ...

The tasteful (HA, sorry, had to) cake has references to The Office, The Iliad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the game Pandemic, but what really stands out is the Harry Potter portion.

I guess Harry Potter was pretty smart setting his birthday bar so low when he rang in the seminal age 11 with a dirt cake he drew himself in some dust on the floor of a satellite tower of Alcatraz ...

The three-level, Harry Potter-inspired cake went viral this week, not just for its design, but also — and we cannot stress this enough — because it has a floating Golden Snitch. OK, seriously.

The parallel universe of the Harry Potter books has launched real-life offshoots: A quidditch league is among the most visible, but the books' values are inspiring many others.