Harry Potter Crest

Well, I ordered some airbrush stencils but they didn’t arrive in time so I needed a backup plan. Thanks to my friend for introducing me to flood icing, I had a plan. I found a free Harry Potter crest coloring page online, copy & pasted it to my computer “paint” page so that I could make it the size I wanted. I made a 10″ printout to use as a stencil for royal icing. Tape the stencil to a flat surface, cover with wax paper (tape wax paper to the surface as well). Make a batch of royal icing. I needed piping consistency & flood consistency for this cake topper (and I made notes on my stencil of which colors and which consistencies. Also, marked what colors I needed in which areas of the stencil. I started by piping white royal icing on all areas I would be airbrushing gold; around to form the crests shape, the lion, eagle, & middle . Allow to dry approximately 15 minutes. Airbrush gold (I used Chefmaster metallic gold) .
Next color dark grey in piping consistency and pipe the outline of the badger and the snake. Put the rest of the grey icing back in its bowl and add more water until it reaches flood consistency. Fill in the badger and the snake . Also, make piping consistency of medium brown and pipe the small areas at the top of the scroll and all around the edge (pictured later).
Place small spoonful of medium brown into a seperate bowl and add a little white royal icing to make it a lighter brown for the lions mane/tail. Then with the remaining medium brown icing, make it flood consistency. Make flood consistency of red, blue, black, and yellow as well.
Flood the backgrounds. Last, using icing and black edible markers, add the finishing touches (eyes, “H”, claws). For the beak, I piped on white icing and made a pint of water and orange luster dust and painted it on . While that is drying download the free Harry Potter font onto a wordpad or similar document, and print “Happy Birthday” the size you need (I went with 1″ letters) .I used a pair of fingernail scissors to cut the letters out of the paper to form my stencil. Hold the paper gently against the iced cake & airbrush .
When cake topper has dried completely, then carefully remove the wax paper and place the topper on the cake.