Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry...

For a friend's son's birthday party I made Harry Potter Hogwarts ties.  In the end, they turned our pretty cute but the road to cuteness was a bumpy one.  Griffendor red is a much harder color to make than one would think.  I started making it with Burgundy food coloring but what I ended up with was HOT PINK! Eek! Panic ensued and then I made an impromptu run to Michael's for red food coloring, because, of course I was out.  After getting some new red and black food coloring, it was back to color mixing.  I was successful in the end by using red, black and brown which looked mauve at first but dried red.  The black edges started out purple and went on the cookies purple but it turned black by the time it dried.  There was some serious Harry Potter magic involved in these cookies looking like the right color.  If I were to make them again, I would use a thinner outside border.  Here they are in all there glory.

Photo Courtesy of Kim L.