Make the mandrake faces by adding sprinkle ‘eyes’ and a sprinkle ‘mouth’ to white mochi (I ordered these mochi on Amazon, but you can also find them at Asian grocery stores or markets).Īdd a sprig of an herb to the top of the mandrake face (we used oregano, but I think mint or parsley would also work great!).Īdd a Mandragora label and cupcake wrapper (free printable mandrake cupcake labels HERE).Īnd you’re done with Mandrake Cupcakes. Add a thick dome of whipped chocolate frosting and cover with chocolate sprinkles (I portion out the sprinkles into a shallow bowl and then roll the top of the frosted cupcake in them until they’re covered). These cupcakes were totally one of my favorite parts of the kids’ Harry Potter Party. I plan on sharing all the Gryffindor-and-Ravenclaw-ish, Honeydukes-extraordinaire, we-even-made-a-joke-shop (and a whole fleet of flying snitches!) details in the weeks (months?) to come, but I’m starting this Harry Potter party extravaganza off with the mandrake cupcakes. And did I mention Harry Potter and how much I love a good theme? You can see the costume here, /2008/01/my-little-mandrake. But both kids wanted to pool their birthday celebrations for one big party. This is the label I made for my Daughters Mandrake costume. I will be honest- putting this party together was a little like plunging back in to a thrashing ocean when you haven’t been swimming in a few years. But last weekend we hosted the most epic of all the Harry Potter parties and it must (MUST!) be shared. It’s been forever since I put together a post, and even longer since I did a full kojo party. The big difference with what came before is that now, we don’t have to be misled by them anymore.As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Is this mandrake root fake, then? The answer is no - this 20th century object merely shows that the stories surrounding the mandrake root are still very much alive. A rounded piece of coral, worn as a necklace, is another example of folk medicine in this collection. A simple, zinc plate that could be worn as a medallion was supposed to have cured a patient’s rheumatism. The private collection that the mandrake root is a part of also contains two other objects that allude to magic-medical folklore. The unicorn was thought to have special healing powers, that also play a role in the Harry Potter books. Add a Mandragora label and cupcake wrapper (free printable mandrake cupcake labels HERE). ![]() These same unicorns can still be found on nostalgic signs hanging outside of pharmacies, referencing the name of the store: Unicorn Pharmacy. How to make Mandrake cupcakes (with free printable Mandragora. On pharmaceutical jars containing medicine, we sometimes find unicorn pictured on the labels. Traces of its mystical past can be found in historical pharmaceutical collections. The history of pharmacy is rooted in its mystical precursor: alchemy. This fact, combined with the modern label and bottle leads us to conclude that this is not an object from the 17th century – or even earlier - but instead a modern allusion to the past. As far as we know, its likening to a bull does not occur in old botanic literature. The bottle with the root was gifted to the museum by a private collector that collected pharmaceutical objects. The root is kept in a modern jar with a label that reads ‘Alruinwortel Mandragora’ in typed letters. Rijksmuseum Boerhaave's mandrake does not look like a mini man at all: it resembles a bull.
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