These Harry Potter themed snacks and treat ideas are easy to make and perfect for your next Harry Potter themed party or movie marathon.
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- Easy Harry Potter Themed Snack Ideas
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- Chocolate Frogs
- Jelly Slugs
- Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
- Harry Potter Hershey Kisses
- Pumpkin Pasties/Pies
- Harry Potter Birthday Cake Cupcakes
- Caramel Sorting Hats
- Butterbeer
- Pumpkin Juice Hot Chocolate
- Spider Cookies
- Magic Chocolate Wands
- Gringotts Gold
- Ferrero Rocher Golden Snitches
- Simple Doable Recipes
- Favor Bags
- Frequently Asked Questions
- More Spooky Recipe Inspiration
Whether you're having a Harry Potter party, or a Harry Potter movie night, we've got the best themed snacks! We can't wait to share all our Harry Potter food ideas with you.
These would be so fun to serve at a halloween party, or a Harry Potter birthday party, or a Harry Potter movie marathon, or a Halloween movie night. Any Harry Potter fans will love all your tasty treats, and feel like they're at the wizarding world of Harry Potter! Check out all our fun Harry Potter themed decor ideas and more Harry Potter free printables here.
These Harry Potter treat and snack ideas are such a fun way to make the Harry Potter books come to life!
Easy Harry Potter Themed Snack Ideas
We've arranged all our sweet treats on a large board. This is such a great way to serve all your magical snacks. All your fellow potterheads will love these themed food.
We went with our sweet tooth when we were planning our magical treats. Our board is filled with desserts and sweet treats. Here's what we included:
- chocolate frogs
- jelly slugs
- Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
- Harry Potter Hershey Kisses
- Pumpkin Pasties/Pies
- Caramel Sorting Hats
- Pumpkin Juice Hot Chocolate
- Spider Cookies
- Magic Chocolate Wands
- Gringotts Gold
- Ferrero Rocher Golden Snitches
- Butter Beer
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See how it looks all put together below.
Chocolate Frogs
Inspired by the trolly snacks on the Hogwarts Express, and Honeydukes, our Harry Potter snacks started out with candy.
We found the chocolate frogs at the party store, but you can find them on-line too. They are so cute, and each one comes with a wizard card, just like in the movie.
We had this special box from our trip to Universal studios and it's the perfect addition to our board.
Jelly Slugs
Another fun sweet treat is the jelly slugs. These are also from the party store, but easy to find on-line as well.
Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans
We had to include some Bertie Bott's every flavour beans, and we can't wait to see if our guests are brave enough to try them, and risk getting a gross flavor.
Harry Potter Hershey Kisses
We also found the Harry Potter special edition Hershey Kisses, and thought they were such a fun addition.
Pumpkin Pasties/Pies
Another Hogwarts Express treat from the trolley that everyone loved were the pumpkin pasties. These sweet little pumpkin pies were the perfect fall flavors for back to school at Hogwarts.
We've made our homemade version with some store bought pastry, and pumpkin pie filling. We used a muffin tin to make our mini pies, and added a cute jack-o-lantern pastry top, that's so much fun.
Harry Potter Birthday Cake Cupcakes
We couldn't have a Harry Potter-themed party tray without including Harry Potter's birthday cake! Hagrid made this cake for Harry Potter's birthday and brought it to him when he first picked him up to bring him to Hogwarts.
We made cupcake sized versions, which are perfect for a dessert board.
We used a simple cake mix and then the fun part was decorating with the pink and green icing inspired from the movie. We used a simple ziplock bag with a very small hole in the corner to make a piping bag to add the words.
Caramel Sorting Hats
Once Harry got to school it was time for the sorting hat to put him and all the first years into their Hogwarts houses. We made our own sorting hats out of caramel squares.
This was quite easy to do, and these little sorting houses are so cute.
To make them start by removing the wrapper and warming up a caramel square in the microwave until softened, for about 10 seconds. Don't over do it.
Then shape one square into the top of the hat, using the tip of knife to create eyes, and a mouth, and adding some eyebrows with a tiny broken off piece of caramel.
Next, use the tip of the knife to make an indent in the bottom and add a red, green, blue, or yellow M&M.
Finally, use another caramel to make a round base for the hat. Put the two together to completely conceal the M&M inside.
Your guests can take a hat and the color inside reveals the Hogwarts house colors and which house the sorting hat has placed you in -this was such a crowd favourite!
Butterbeer
Harry, Ron, and Hermione loved to visit The Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer in the Harry Potter series. We've made our own version.
To make it, add about 1-2 tablespoon of caramel sauce to a glass and fill with cream soda. Top it off with some whipped cream, and another drizzle of carmel sauce.
These are so good, your taste buds will thank you. These are definitely on of our very favourite Harry Potter recipes.
We served our butter beer up in chilled beer mugs and they were the perfect accompaniment to our snacks.
Pumpkin Juice Hot Chocolate
For another drink option, we found these pumpkin hot chocolate bombs at Target and they reminded us of pumpkin juice.
These aren't authentic pumpkin juice, which is made with pumpkin puree, and apple cider, but I thought they'd be a fun addition, and perfect for sipping while movie watching, preferably in a Harry Potter themed mug.
Spider Cookies
Inspired by the spider Aragog and his children we made some spider cookies.
To make these we used store bought chocolate chip cookie dough and baked them. If you want to make them from scratch, check out our favourite chocolate chip cookie recipe here. When they were hot out of the oven we added a small round disk of meltable chocolate on top. The heat from the fresh baked cookies melted the chocolate and then we added the candy eyes on top.
And when they were cooled we piped on 8 legs with melted chocolate in a ziplock bag with the corner snipped off to make a piping bag.
These are such a simple recipe, but they're the perfect treat as a nod to the spiders in Harry Potter world.
Magic Chocolate Wands
We also included some Harry Potter chocolate wands.
The best part is that these are actually pocky biscuit sticks. These are so yummy and super easy, and really do look like wands.
Gringotts Gold
I also added some chocolate coins to our snack board. Inspired by the gold in the vault at Gringotts Wizarding Bank that Harry's parents have left to him, they're another easy fun addition.
You can find Gringotts chocolate coins on-line, or just look for regular chocolate coins at the party store (which are a little bit cheaper).
Ferrero Rocher Golden Snitches
We used Ferrero Rocher chocolate to make our own golden snitches.
To make them, we removed the brown packaging and sticker on top, so we're just left with the chocolate in gold paper. 0
Then we made some printable wings, cut them out, and glued them onto the gold paper using glue dots.
Free Printable Wings
You can use our free printable golden snitch wings to make some for your own snacks inspired by the magical world of Harry Potter. Just subscribe below for instant access to our Free Resource Library, and find these free printables inside.
Simple Doable Recipes
I wanted to make this dessert board very doable, so although there are a lot of things included, they're all really simple recipes.
Use a cake mix and store bought icing to make the cupcake birthday cakes really easy to make.
For the pumpkin pasties/pies, use store bought pastry and pie filling.
Our spider cookies, were refrigerated cookie dough.
For the butterbeer you can use store bought butterscotch/caramel sauce, and even spray whipped cream if you like.
Have fun collecting your candy. We had great luck finding the Harry Potter candy at the party store. If you have trouble finding them in stores, look for them online.
These official Harry Potter treats are a little on the expensive side. We found buying them in small quantities was enough, especially when they were mixed with all the other treats.
They were definitely worth getting though, because they added a certain authenticity to the desert board.
If you're prepping for a large themed party, feel free to get ahead by making the baked treats like the cupcakes, pumpkin pasties/pies, and cookies a few days ahead and popping them in the freezer.
Favor Bags
I love serving this on a large board because everyone can see all the fun and themed options.
It also means that you just need a few of everything, so you don't end up with 12 trays full of everything and too much food.
But even with our smaller quantities, you might still want to have some plastic goodie bags available for guest to help themselves to the remaining candy and make their own goodie bag to go home with.
We loved all our Harry Potter treat and snack ideas. Everything was really delicious and perfect for snacking on during a movie marathon, or for serving guests for dessert at a Harry Potter birthday party or Halloween party.
Frequently Asked Questions
We found a lot of our store bought Harry Potter snacks and candy at the party store. You can also look on-line for some of the specialty candy.
You can make butter beer, Harry's birthday cake cupcakes, pumpkin pasties/pies, and spider cookies at home.
More Spooky Recipe Inspiration
With Harry Potter inspired treats and snack ideas, life really is a party!
If you tried any of our Harry Potter Snacks and Treats or any other idea on my blog please let me know how it went in the comments below. Thanks for visiting today!
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