How to Plan a Harry Potter Dinner Menu

At your next Harry Potter party, treat guests to an authentic Harry Potter dinner. Serve up dishes strait from the table at Hogwarts and sweet treats from Honeydukes. This menu is a combination of strictly magical dishes (without the magical side effects) and traditional British favorites all mentioned in the Harry Potter book series. This dinner menu works great for birthday parties, slumber parties or Halloween parties.

Instructions

1. Serve up mugs of icy cold butter beer and pumpkin juice to guests, as they arrive. Butter beer is mixture of one part butterscotch flavoring to three parts cream soda. Pumpkin juice is the juice from a strained pumpkin. It can be flavored with brown sugar and pumpkin pie spice.

2. Serve traditional British dishes for the main course. Some dishes served at Hogwarts include Yorkshire pudding, kidney pie, haggis, kippers and crumpets.

3. Make cauldron cakes by trimming the tops of chocolate cupcakes and turning them upside down. Stick a piece of black string liquorice on either side to make the handle.

4. Dip the ends of licorice sticks into melted white chocolate for some tasty magical wands.

5. Offer guests a platter of cockroach clusters, a mixture of dry chow mien noodles and melted chocolate. Don't forget to pass out the bowl of Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans (made by Jelly Belly- watch out for the vomit and booger flavors).

6. Serve a plate of chocolate frogs and peppermint toads. Pick up some candy molds at a craft store. Flavor white chocolate with peppermint for the toads.

7. Send guests home with gift bags filled with Mrs.Weasley's treacle fudge (really just chocolate fudge) and acid pops. Use sour charm blow pops and pop rocks for acid pops.

Tips & Warnings

• If you run low on pumpkin juice, mix it with spiced apple cider.

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish
• Britta has great Harry Potter recipes and presentation ideas.
• Mugglenet is offers a wide variety of foods and recipes related to Harry Potter.