Harry Potter Party Ideas

Well here it is, the moment that you’ve all been waiting for.  The complete collection of photos, recipes, and Harry Potter Party Ideas from my first Harry Potter Party.  I hope that it won’t be the last, because I still of lots of other ideas rattling around in my brain that need to come out, lol.  For now, we will stay focused on this party…..

You can’t have a party without food, so that was where I started.  I had grand plans to cover the tables in food, just like in the movies.  Silver platters and bowls filled with turkey, ham, potatoes, corn, and peas. Then gobs and gobs of delicious ice creams, caramel apples, and rich gooey desserts.  Then I realized that, 1) I don’t actually have any magical powers. 2) I was on vacation up until the week before the party. 3) I don’t have Food Network’s budget!

I scaled things back to the basics.  Starting with some fun cocktails.  Remember, this was an adult party…..

Butter Beer Cocktail

Polyjuice Potion

Witches Brew

We need some appetizers, even though they were never mentioned in the books or movies. I’m just a rebel like that. 😉

Spinach {Gillyweed} Dip

Puff Pastry Sausage Rolls – there is nothing more British than sausage rolls!

For our dramatic main course I went with…..

Classic Roast Chicken

Crispy Roast Potatoes

If Crispy Roast Potatoes are not your thing, maybe you would prefer these other potatoes that were also mentioned…..

Homemade French Fries

Mashed Potatoes

I also served Pepperoni Pizza Muffins, which were absolutely not in the books…or movies…or apparently the wizarding world!  We love them, so they needed to be here…..

Sorry, I do not have any recipes for ham, turkey, or roast beef…yet. 😉

The desserts are pretty prominent in the books and movies.  I still need to create pumpkin pasties and a treacle tart at some point in the future, but for now were have…..

Lisa’s Magical Treats Shop complete with creepy hand.

Cauldron Cakes {Homemade Ding Dongs}

Troll Boogers/Bogeys  {Slime Green Candied Popcorn}

Gourmet Caramel Apples

Chocolate Frogs {filled with caramel and pecans not magic, sorry}

Chocolate Caramel Pretzels {Wands}

The Chocolate Cockroaches, are chocolate covered almonds.  My quick solution for cockroach clusters.  The licorice “wands” are caramel apple, and Hershey’s chocolate licorice.  I had no idea that either of types of licorice existed. 😉

The Pop Rocks were originally going to be a component to Acid Pops, but they were a complete fail!! You dip tootsie pops into honey and then roll them in pop rocks.  I ended up with a gooey, sticky mess instead.

Now it’s time to set the mood…..

For the Great Hall, I improvised. I do not have 4 tables, so I used the 2 that I do have.  I also have black folding chairs for extra seating. I would love to build benches in the future, we’ll see if that happens or not!

I only have 8 foot ceilings, so I chose not to hang “floating” candles. I decided to place taper candles into clear bottles in varying heights…..

I thought they would look really cool with melted wax dripping down the sides.  And it would have, if I had not purchased drip less candles…oops!  I was originally going to put these candles on the table, but they are too tall and over powering. I went with pillar candles on chargers instead…..

I think I may have bought out all of the gold and silver chargers at Michael’s.  I used the silver chargers with gold paper plates for the food.  This was following the scenes in movies, rather than the books which stated silver everything. I like the contrast.  I could not find silver goblets, crazy right?  So I used my regular wine glasses, mini plastic mugs {shown with the Polyjuice Potion and Witches Brew}, and real glass mugs for the Butter Beer.

Have you ever noticed that they do not use napkins at Hogwarts?  Well I haven’t seen any, so I went with plain black, which blended right into the black table cloth, lol.

Phone photos!  We had a blast, and Gryffindor was well represented…..

As were the muggles…..

No Shave November apparently turned into No Shave Ever Again, lol

In case of emergency, we needed to have a quick escape…..

You just never know what will happen! 🙂

This party will be partying at these link parties!