On the last day of year 2019, two crazies, with a box of Qizilbash Quality Confectionery's Cauldron Cakes (and two forks!), sat cross-legged outside Honeydukes - the sweet shop at Hogsmeade Village, at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Passing by folks paused to look at the cosmetic twins (who looked stunning in their matching Spectrespecs), engrossed in photographing the sweet treat before digging in to it. The box looked magical itself, and the chocolatey goodness inside looked heavenly delicious!
That was us ... Sara and I ... seated on the familiar, loved, cobbled-stone street of Hogsmeade Village. We were indulging in a never-tried, and always-wanted treat of the Wizarding World. Everything becomes a scene when it is Sara and I at the Wizarding World - even a simple bottle of Gilly Water - and so did Qizilbash's Cauldron Cakes. Because of the intense photo session we were staging at the streetside, it was difficult to go unnoticed. Tens of our black, Wizarding World of Harry Potter shopping bags lay askew around us as we huddled to take photographs.
"Oooh, look at them!"
"What are they eating?"
"What's that?"
"Look at those glasses!"
Those were the passerby comments. Some even stepped up to ask us where we got the Cauldron Cakes, and the Spectrespecs from. The Cauldron Cakes are a beauty - the package and the treat itself. The box was a keepsake for sure! I had decided I was going to clean it (the delicious icing was on the lid!) and was going to keep it on my Honeydukes shelf. The cake itself came in a silicone cauldron that is bakeware! You can make your own Cauldron Cake using that. So for $11 (or was it $9? one of the two) you get a bakeware cauldron as well! The cake inside the cauldron was super, super, moist, extra, extra fudgy chocolatey, out of the world, heavenly delicious ganache! *fireworks in my brain* The flames on top were icing - some premium vanilla, delicious thick icing! This is serious!
Me! Photographed by Sara in the Honeydukes line to get us a Cauldron Cake.
Do not come out of Honeydukes empty handed! Do not come out without a Qizilbash Cauldron Cake! We have loved this so much we ate it out of a trash bin! No kidding! Here's the story:
The Qizilbash Cauldron Cake Trash Bin Story
We got a second Cauldron Cake on the same trip because we always buy stuff in pairs. Plus, we wanted to have two silicone cauldrons for our future baking adventure! So the second one we took back to our hotel room and stashed it in the fridge to consume the next day. The next day we shared it after dinner, with Manneepunk! A 'considerable' amount was left and we stashed it back in the fridge in a paper plate perfectly showing that it is for human consumption at a later time! The next morning, 'someone' had dumped it in the trash bin under the sink. Now! It was not properly disposed, okay! The paper plate was sitting right at the top with our goody sitting safely on it, untouched by anything else in the bin. And the bin ... well, it had only paper plates and cups from last night's dinner. All the stinky food we had disposed outside the hotel room. So ... I took it out! And we ate it! Thank God the Covid-19 scare was still not hyped up back then. Proud to tell the story! The extent we go to as Potterheads!
This post is part of the April A to Z Challenge 2020
No comments:
Post a Comment
Leave Me Comments: