Easy Mandrake Cupcakes for Your Harry Potter Party

These easy-to-make Mandrake cupcakes were a huge hit and brought a lot of smiles to our Harry Potter Birthday party!

If you’re a Harry Potter fan like my daughters and me, you know there’s nothing quite like sprinkling a bit of magic into our everyday muggle lives.

My girls, who, despite being all grown up, still adore the enchanting world of Hogwarts and Fantastic Beasts, chose the theme for their shared birthday party and I went all in!

To make our celebration extra special, I whipped up some Mandrake cupcakes—inspired by those adorable, screeching magical plants from the series.

Using chocolate cupcakes to mimic plant pots, these treats feature strawberries with green tops for foliage and cookie dough-flavored candy melts for the Mandrake faces.

Because they are baby-like creatures, these would also make wonderful treats for a Harry Potter baby shower.

Follow along as I share how I conjured up these delightful treats so you too can add a bit of wizardry to your own celebration!

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What are Mandrakes?

In the Harry Potter series, Mandrakes are magical plants known for their powerful restorative properties and ear-splitting screams.

First introduced in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” during Professor Sprout’s Herbology class, Mandrakes have roots that resemble human babies and their cries can be fatal to anyone who hears them unprotected.

They are essential for creating a potion to revive those petrified by the basilisk, making them a crucial part of the wizarding world’s herbology.

These Mandrake treats will not screech on their own, but you will be able to get the ripping-from-the-earth effect when you pull the strawberry from the cupcake.

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Tips and advice

• To create the perfect Mandrake cupcakes, you’ll need to make the chocolate cupcake look like it’s in a pot of some kind. I ran out of time and used brown cupcake wrappers, but you could use mini terracotta pots for a more authentic plant effect.
• Make sure the strawberries you choose have a nice green top to better mimic the plant’s foliage.
• The color of the wafer is also crucial; you want a distinct color separation between the chocolate frosting (representing dirt) and the Mandrake’s face. Since Mandrakes are baby-like, I used cookie dough-flavored candy melts that were light brown in color.
• When carving the face, remember these are supposed to be screaming, root-like creatures—the face doesn’t have to be pretty; it should look somewhat angry and distressed.

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Mandrake Cupcakes Video Instructions

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Mandrake Cupcakes Ingredients

• Chocolate cupcakes (My moist chocolate cake batter recipe works fantastic for this)
• Big strawberries
• Candy melts in a light brown color
• Dark Chocolate frosting

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How to Make the Mandrakes

Melt the candy wafers according to the package instruction

Dip a strawberry and try to coat as much as possible keeping the stem intact.

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