Harry Potter Party Food Ideas

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In the Harry Potter books and movies, Harry and his friends enjoy magical snacks and bewitched candies. While the snacks you serve at your Harry Potter party will not move around on their own accord, they should still give your guests the feeling that they are in the Hogwarts dining hall. Harry Potter party foods range from British favorites to homemade wizard treats that don't require the use of a House Elf to prepare.

Candy

Place bowls of Harry Potter's favorite candies out for guests to munch on. You don't have to go to Honeydukes to find wizard candies like Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans or Chocolate Frogs; just check the candy aisle of your local grocery store. Make your own wizard candies at home. Dip black licorice whips into melted white chocolate to create a candy wand. Create bug-free Cockroach Clusters by melting dark chocolate and mixing in crunchy chow mein noodles. Spoon the chocolate mixture into one inch blobs on to a piece of wax paper and allow them to cool in the fridge overnight.

Appetizers and Entrees

Pretend store bought deli pinwheels are actually magical parchment scrolls.

The meals that Harry Potter eats while studying at Hogwarts are traditional British foods. If you want to serve an entree course for your Harry Potter party, use your favorite recipe for Yorkshire Pudding or steak and kidney pies. If you don't think your crowd is the adventurous type, make finger sandwiches and shape into dragons, wizard hats and broomsticks, using cookie cutters. Feel free to serve what you think will go over best and find creative ways to tie it to Harry Potter. Label a platter of deli pinwheels as parchment scrolls or add green food coloring to deviled eggs to make dragon eggs.

Desserts

The sweets in the Harry Potter universe extend beyond just candy. Make Cauldron Cakes by baking your favorite chocolate cupcake mix and sticking in a piece of black shoestring licorice while the batter is still moist in the shape of a cauldron handle. Make Golden Snitch cookies by baking round sugar cookies and frosting them using yellow colored frosting. Cut out wing shapes from rice paper or white colored fondant and attach them to the cookies to complete the Snitch shape. Try out traditional British dessert recipes, such as treacle tarts or trifle.

Beverages

Let party guests wet their whistle with a wizard brew. Harry's drink of choice is pumpkin juice, which you can make at home by hollowing out a pumpkin as if to carve it, cutting it in half and baking it in the oven for about an hour or two. Strain the pumpkin pulp to get the sweetened pumpkin juice and add cinnamon, nutmeg or pumpkin pie spice to taste. To create Butterbeer, mix in one cup of butterscotch syrup with seven cups of cream soda. For an afternoon party, serve traditional English tea.

References

• Britta: The Hogwarts Celebration: Hogwarts and Honeydukes Recipes
• Harry Potter Lexicon: Food & Drink

Resources

• Jelly Belly: Bertie Botts Every Flavor Beans