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    Home » Holidays » Harry Potter Party Ideas

    Published: Oct 30, 2014 · Modified: Oct 3, 2019 by Lisa Johnson

    Harry Potter Party Ideas

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    Harry Potter Party Food Collage

    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.....

    Harry Potter Party Foods Collage | cookingwithcurls.com

    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!

    Beverages:

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

    Butter Beer Cocktail | cookingwithcurls.com | #harrypotter #party

    Butter Beer Cocktail

    Polyjuice Potion | cookingwithcurls.com | #harrypotter

    Polyjuice Potion

    Witches Brew | cookingwithcurls.com | #harrypotter

    Witches Brew

    Appetizers:

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

    Spinach Dip {aka Gillyweed Dip} | cookingwithcurls.com | #harrypotter

    Spinach {Gillyweed} Dip

    Puff Pastry Sausage Rolls | cookingwithcurls.com

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

    For our dramatic main course I went with.....

    Classic Roast Chicken | cookingwithcurls.com

    Classic Roast Chicken

    Crispy Roast Potatoes | cookingwithcurls.com

    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 | cookingwithcurls.com

    Homemade French Fries

    Mashed Potatoes | cookingwithcurls.com

    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.....

    Pepperoni Pizza Muffins | cookingwithcurls.com

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

    Sweets

    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.....

    Harry Potter Party Food - Sweets Shop | cookingwithcurls.com

    Lisa's Magical Treats Shop complete with creepy hand.

    Cauldron Cakes aka Homemade Ding Dongs cookingwithcurls.com

    Cauldron Cakes {Homemade Ding Dongs}

    Troll Boogers | cookingwithcurls.com

    Troll Boogers/Bogeys  {Slime Green Candied Popcorn}

    Gourmet Caramel Apples | cookingwithcurls.com

    Gourmet Caramel Apples

    Chocolate Frogs filled with homemade caramel and chopped pecans | cookingwithcurls.com | #halloween #harrypotter

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

    Chocolate Caramel Pretzels | cookingwithcurls.com | #harrypotter

    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.

    Harry Potter Party Tables cookingwithcurls.com

    For the Great Hall, I improvised. I do not have 4 tables, so I used the 2 that I do have. Wood benches would be nice in the future, we'll see if that happens or not!

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

    Harry Potter Party Candles | cookingwithcurls.com

    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! These candles were originally going to be on the table, but they are too tall and over powering. The pillar candles on chargers worked much better.....

    Harry Potter Party Pillar Candles | cookingwithcurls.com

    I think I may have bought out all of the gold and silver chargers at Michael's. Silver chargers with gold paper plates were used for the food. This was following the scenes in movies, rather than the books which stated silver everything. I like the contrast. 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.

    Professor Trelawny and Professor Umbridge | cookingwithcurls.com

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

    Gryffindors | cookingwithcurls.com

    As were the muggles.....

    Harry Potter Party Alex | cookingwithcurls.com

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

    Harry Potter Party Varuka and Kristin | cookingwithcurls.com

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

    Harry Potter Party | Ministry of Magic| cookingwithcurls.com

    You just never know what will happen! 🙂

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    1. Kristen @ A Mind Full Mom says

      November 09, 2014 at 6:11 pm

      Pinned for my son. He is on the final Harry Potter book and this would be a great way for us to wrap up his reading marathon! Fun ideas!

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      • Lisa Johnson says

        November 12, 2014 at 11:59 am

        Thank you so much Kristen. What a fun way to end the series! 🙂

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