Harry Potter Sugar Cookies
These Harry Potter Sugar Cookies are made with a soft and chewy sugar cookie base, topped with a raspberry frosting. They're decorated like Hagrid's cake for Harry's 11th birthday in Harry Potter and the Scorcerer's Stone. Perfect for Halloween or for your watch parties for the new Harry Potter Series coming out this December!
Ingredients
For the Harry Potter Sugar Cookies
- 3/4 c (170g) unsalted butter room temperature
- 3//4 c (150g) granulated sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- 1/2 Tbsp vanilla extract
- 2 c (250g) all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp tsp salt
For the Raspberry Frosting
- 2 c (220g) powdered sugar
- 3/4 c (whole) (15g) freeze dried raspberries pulverized into powder
- 3 Tbsp (42g) unsalted butter melted
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract or bean paste
- pinch of salt
- 5-7 Tbsp heavy cream
- green food coloring
Instructions
For the Harry Potter Sugar Cookies
- In a medium/large bowl place 3/4 cup (170g) of room temperature unsalted butter and 3/4 cups (150g) of granulated sugar. Mix on medium/high speed for 2-3 minutes until the mixture becomes lighter.
- Add in 1 large room temperature egg and 1/2 tbsp of vanilla extract and mix until combined.
- In a separate bowl, add 2 cups (250g) of all purpose flour, 1 tsp of baking soda, 1/2 tsp of baking powder and 1/2 tsp of salt and whisk well until combined. Pour the dry mix into the wet and mix carefully until combined. Be sure not to overmix at this stage.
- Scoop the batter into 9 large cookie dough balls and chill covered for just 30 minutes.
- Preheat your oven to 350 oF (about 180 oC) and line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
- Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet at least 2 inches apart from each other. Bake for 10-12 minutes until the edges start to get slightly golden brown. The cookies will still look a little underdone but will finish baking on the hot sheet once removed from the oven.
- Remove the cookies from the oven and use a spatula to lightly press the tops of each cookie flat, this will help when we decorate later. Allow them to cool on the baking sheet completely.
For the Raspberry Frosting
- Measure out 3/4 c (15g) freeze dried raspberries* and use a food processor or spice blender to blitz them into a fine powder and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine 2 c (220g) of powdered sugar, 3 Tbsp (42g) of melted unsalted butter, 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste, and a good pinch of salt.
- Add 2-3 Tbsp of heavy cream making sure to add just 1 Tbsp at a time. You want a pretty thick frosting, but it should be thin enough to be able to pipe through a piping bag/write with.
- Reserve about 1/4 cup of the frosting to another small bowl. Cover that bowl and set it aside.
- Add the pulverized raspberry powder to the main bowl of frosting and add 2-4 more Tbsp of heavy cream again adding just 1 Tbsp at a time. You want the frosting to be thick but spreadable.
- Add the raspberry frosting to a piping bag, it should be a pretty color pink, like Hagrid's cake!
- Returning to the 1/4 cup of reserved frosting, add a small drop of green food coloring and mix until combined. Then add the green frosting to a piping bag.
Assembling Harry Potter Sugar Cookies
- Grab your cooled sugar cookies, they should have a nice flat top ready for the frosting. Snip small openings at the tip of each frosting bag, the green opening should be smaller than the pink.
- Pipe a generous amount of raspberry frosting on the top of each cookie and, working one cookie at a time, use a knife or offset spatula to spread the frosting to an even layer. You don't have to make it perfect, remember Hagrid sat on this!
- Using the green frosting, write out the letters to spell "HAPPEE BIRTHDAE HARRY" on each cookie.
- Lastly, use a small toothpick, knife or whatever you have on hand to drag a small line carefully through the frosting to mimic the look of Hagrid's cake.
- These cookies store very well in an airtight container for up to 4 days.
Notes
*Freeze dried raspberries can be hard to find, I can only ever reliably find them at Target in the US. I recommend looking on Amazon if you don't have a reliable source for them.