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"Cauldron cakes! Great for sharing."
— Description[src]

The Cauldron Cake was a popular wizarding cake variant.[3] Cauldron Cakes were mass-produced in Pakistan by Qizilbash Quality Confectionary from 1854 onward.[1] They could be bought from the Honeydukes Express trolley on the Hogwarts Express,[3][4][5][6] or at Honeydukes Sweetshop in Hogsmeade. Some witches and wizards, like Bathilda Bagshot, made their own homemade batches of Cauldron Cakes.[2]

There was also a transfiguration spell that could turn Cauldron Cakes into cabbages.[7]

History[]

Sometime during the 1890s, Albus Dumbledore's mother, Kendra Dumbledore, slammed the door in Bathilda Bagshot's face when she came to bring the new neighbours a batch of homemade Cauldron Cakes. This incident was cited in Rita Skeeter's biography of Albus Dumbledore.[2]

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A box of Qizilbash Quality Confectionary Cauldron Cakes

Harry Potter bought some Cauldron Cakes, along with every other sweet on the Hogwarts Express food trolley, on his first journey on the Hogwarts Express on 1 September, 1991. He shared his sweets with Ron Weasley, who did not have the money to buy his own.[3]

On 1 September 1993, when the trolley witch visited the compartment containing Harry Potter, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger and Professor Remus Lupin, the group thought Lupin looked as if he could do with food, but couldn't wake him. The witch provided them with a large stack of Cauldron Cakes and said they could find her up front with the conductor if Lupin woke.[4]

On 1 September 1994, Harry Potter bought a large stack of Cauldron Cakes from the trolley to share with his friends. Ron later squashed one of them into a pulp in anger after Draco Malfoy mocked him.[5]

In 1996, after the end of the 1995–1996 school year, Harry Potter purchased a large batch of Cauldron Cakes and Pumpkin Pasties for his friends aboard the Hogwarts Express, on the journey back to London.[6]

Behind the scenes[]

  • As modern Pakistan officially came into existence in 1947, Cauldron Cakes may have been made elsewhere by the company before this time, or this may be an example of in-universe elements not aligning with out-of-universe events. If they were manufactured in the same place prior to 1947, it would likely be somewhere in British India, which the area that is now Pakistan was a part of, and the modern packaging has been updated accordingly.
  • In the PC version of the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, they are collected as currency along with Pumpkin Pasties and Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans to purchase items such as Chocolate Frog Cards.
    • Though in other versions of the video games, they act as healing items. They also normally appear as actual miniature cauldrons with stuffing inside (only the cauldron part is rendered in a non-edible way). The colours of both the "cauldron" itself and its stuffing vary per video game.
    • Certain instruction booklets also compare the Cauldron Cake as being a Wizard's equivalent to the real life (Eccles cake).
    • In Hogwarts Legacy they, along with any other snacks the player consumes, have no healing properties and exist as simply an interactive item for immersion's sake.

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Notes and references[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 Harry Potter Wizard's CollectionLabel Collection book (see this image)
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 11 (The Bribe)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 6 (The Journey from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Chapter 5 (The Dementor)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Chapter 11 (Aboard the Hogwarts Express)
  6. 6.0 6.1 6.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 38 (The Second War Begins)
  7. Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, Year 6, Chapter 1 (Year Six Begins) - Transfiguration Lesson "Cauldron Cakes to Cabbages"
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