A Golden Snitch Cake

It has been a while since I wrote a post. I have not been baking a lot recently but started up again with my nephew's birthday cake. Every year he let's his imagination run wild and he challenges me to make a bigger and better cake than the previous year. This year was no exception, he asked me to make him a golden snitch cake with harry potter sitting on top. I always make a chocolate cake for him so after purchasing a new hemisphere cake tin I made up one lot of cake mix and separated it into what I thought was half. When I had baked both halves I put them together and realised that they were completely different sizes. I had to start again this time making one batch of batter for each. It worked out much better the second time and after some carefully carving I sandwiched the two together. I also cut each half into two and put butter cream in the middle.
I left the cake in the fridge to set for a while and then covered it with yellow sugar paste. In order to get the gold shine that I wanted I used gold lustre dust. I mixed the dust with water and painted it on. I then used more yellow sugar paste to make the lines on the snitch and again painted them. For the writing on the snitch I used my new edible ink pen.
The only problem that I had with the cake were the wings. I bought flower wires , cut out a triangle of sugar paste then wrapped around the wires. It was too heavy for the wire to hold it's shape. After a quick chat with my Mum she gave me the idea of using my lollipop sticks (or cake pop sticks). They worked much better as they were a lot stronger. So the last touch was the Harry Potter on top. This time I used wire and shaped it into the character and then put the icing around it. It was much easier except that the body turned out to be a bit long. I'll know for next time though.
So the cake is done, we are getting ready and the wing breaks off! I had to rush around getting my cake stuff out again in order to make a new wing.  It didn't take that long and I kept it on a plate and decided to attach it when I got there. If only I had taken the other wing out! On the way  to my brother's house we went over a speed bump (not hubby's fault) and the second wing broke. We had to quickly get back home so I could rush out and make another. Obviously I left it on the plate and attached it once we got there.
So here It is the final finished cake: