These Harry Styles Inspired Desserts Are the Perfect Homage to the Pop Icon

Harry Styles is cute, loveable and charming. These desserts inspired by him should also channel that feeling and energy he brings to every performance of his. Here are our top ideas.

From playful and upbeat to intense and moody, Harry Styles’ music has been an immersive experience for many fans all over the world. His style and peppiness have made the former One Direction member a globally adored icon. No wonder he is celebrated for all the right reasons.If you’re throwing a themed party and want to pay homage to this charming man, here are all the desserts you’ll need.

1. Watermelon Sugar Cookies

The chart-topping song Watermelon Sugar is indispensable when thinking of Styles-themed desserts. The song, recalling a fun summer vibe, is breezy and cool, and your dessert should be the same. Simply make semicircle shaped sugar cookies using a mold and top them with red icing sugar and black dots, creating watermelon slices. Every bite will be a combination of lazy summers and delectable sweetness, and you won’t be able to stop yourself from asking more.

Ingredients:

For the sugar cookies:

• 1 cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1½ tsp vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour
• ¾ tsp baking powder
• ¾ tsp salt

For the frosting:

• 3 cups powdered sugar
• 4 tbsp milk
• 2 tbsp light corn syrup
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• Gel food coloring, red and black

2. Kiwi Cupcakes

Recall another song, Kiwi, from Styles’ eponymous debut album, by making a dessert that celebrates the fruit…and him! The cupcakes are made with kiwi and topped with a vibrant green frosting with edible black balls on top, mimicking the fruit. The cupcakes can also be decorated with finely chopped kiwis to add to the tangy and fun flavor. Remember to play the song when serving the cupcakes.

Ingredients:

For the cupcakes:

• 2 kiwis
• 1½ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp sea salt
• ¼ cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ cup unsalted butter
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• 1 egg
• 2 egg whites

For the frosting:

• 1 kiwi, mashed
• ½ cup unsalted butter
• ½ tsp vanilla extract
• ¾ cup confectioner’s sugar
• a pinch of sea salt

3. Cherry Tarts

Reference Cherry, another one of Styles’ songs named after a fruit, by making cute mini cherry tarts. These bite-sized treats are sure to be fun to eat without becoming too messy. Serve them on a white or silver platter so that its red really stands out and creates some much-desired drama in an ode to Saint Styles. Also, add some mint leaves and sprigs on the sides of the plate for a really rustic effect, placing the mini tarts gently in the middle.

Ingredients:

• 1 package mini pie crusts
• 1 pound fresh sweet cherries, pitted
• 2 tbsp tapioca
• ⅓ cup sugar
• ½ tsp almond extract
• 1 pinch salt
• ½ cup whipped cream, for garnish
• Grated chocolate, for garnish
• Fresh, chopped cherries, for garnish

4. Fine Line Cake

Channel the fun and vibrant energy of Styles’ album Fine Line with a cake baked keeping the album’s cover art in mind. Bake a circular cake. Make pink and blue frosting, ensuring they’re both light and gentle shades of the colors. Using the pink frosting, make semicircles on the top and bottom of the cake. Look at the cover art to get a better idea of how these should be sized. Then fill the center with blue frosting. Make a marzipan figurine if you want, but the cake can be complete without that too.

Ingredients:

For the cake:

• 2 cups all purpose flour
• 2½ tsp baking powder
• ¼ tsp salt
• 4 large eggs
• 1½ cups caster sugar
• ½ cup unsalted butter
• 1 cup milk
• 3 tsp vanilla extract
• 3 tsp vegetable oil

For the vanilla buttercream

• 2 sticks unsalted butter
• 500 gm icing sugar
• 3 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 tbsp milk
• Pink and blue food coloring, few drops

5. Sign of the Times Cookies

Among Styles’ most profound songs is Sign of the Times, where he’s floating into the air, away from everything and everyone. The sensitive and intense song is comforting and familiar, and the dessert related to it should offer the same feeling of nostalgia. Make round sugar cookies and black icing. On the cookies, write numbers imitating a clock and make two hands. You can point the hands to the time the party starts, or write different words and numbers that are special in the place of the clock’s numbers, and add hands wherever appropriate.

(Refer to the sugar cookies recipe in the beginning of the article.)