15 Creative “Harry Potter” Food Ideas For Your Magical Gathering
- Date: October 6, 2024
- Topic: Events
- Contributors: Written by Peerspace StaffEdited by Alexis Shiraki
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If you’re planning a Harry Potter-themed gathering, serving the right food is an important part of creating a magical atmosphere. To help you do that, we’ve put together a list of Harry Potter food ideas, including tasty snacks, drinks, and desserts.
At least as important as your party’s food is its venue, which plays a huge role in the logistics of the party (like access to equipment, parking, etc.) and in cultivating the right vibe. It’s easy to find unique party venues near you for rent by the hour on Peerspace, which is the largest online marketplace for hourly venue rentals. Searching the site, you’ll find countless beautiful spaces with magical vibes. In fact, in total, the Peerspace marketplace contains tens of thousands of spaces across hundreds of cities.
After landing on the right venue for your Harry Potter party, you’ll want to focus on the menu. Keep reading for some awesome Harry Potter food ideas that are sure to make your gathering perfectly magical.
1. Whip up a simple and tasty Butterbeer
This is the delicious, warming drink that Harry and his friends drink during their trips to Hogsmeade. It’s described as tasting like butterscotch. The recipe we’re sharing has only four ingredients, and it’s also exactly as we imagined butterbeer tasting when we read the books and watched the movies!
2. Concoct your own (yummy) Skele-Gro
In the Harry Potter universe, Skele-Gro is a magical potion that can mend or regrow bones, which apparently tastes dreadful. However, our suggestion is simply to make any (tasty!) beverage of your choice and label it with a convincing tag like the one in this image.
3. Recreate a “Happee Birthdae Harry” cake
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in the series, Hagrid makes Harry a big chocolate cake with the words “Happee Birthdae Harry” written on it in green icing. So one of our favorite Harry Potter food ideas is to reproduce this cake for a birthday party. You can leave it as is, or replace the name “Harry” with the name of the person whose birthday it is.
Need a venue for your party that has a spacious kitchen ideal for whipping up and serving birthday cake? Then check out Harry Potter’s Hideaway, a themed home in Columbus, OH! It not only has a full kitchen but it’s also decorated in tribute to the Harry Potter series. It’s perfect for your themed party and one of the many event spaces you can book through Peerspace with ease.
4. Get creative and bake a Hogwarts houses pizza
Make a pizza in the shape of the Hogwarts shield, with a quadrant for each of the four houses. The example we’re sharing here uses red pepper, sun-dried tomato, and chili for Gryffindor, spinach, pesto, and green pepper for Slytherin, cauliflower and cheese for Hufflepuff, and olives and mushrooms for Ravenclaw.
5. Treat your guests to scrummy pumpkin pasties
These are small handheld pastries filled with pumpkin that were sold on the Hogwarts Express. They’re similar to a traditional British hand pie known as the Cornish pasty, but they have sweetened, spiced pumpkin puree inside them instead of meat and vegetables.
Is your celebration for adults? You’re in luck; our unique Harry Potter party ideas for adults will help you plan every aspect of your party!
6. Hand out Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans
In the world of Harry Potter, Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans aren’t lying when they say “every flavor.” The list of weird and horrible flavors that these jellybeans can come in includes black pepper, dirt, earthworm, earwax, grass, and rotten eggs.
Funnily enough, you can buy these jelly beans in the real world, too! You can offer them for your guests in a big bowl, or hand the 1.2-ounce boxes out to your guests as party favors as they leave.
7. Mix up some Polyjuice Potion
Remember Polyjuice Potion, which Harry, Ron, and Hermione consume on a couple of different occasions throughout the books to temporarily transform into other people? Make a bright green, fizzy punch and label it “Polyjuice Potion” for one of the most fun of all the Harry Potter food ideas.
8. Make tasty yet silent Howler envelope snacks
Howlers are magical letters that read the message written on them aloud (and very loudly!) in the voice of the person who wrote them to express anger and punish the recipient. They’ll also explode if you ignore them. Make your own version of these hilarious letters to really impress your party guests!
9. Pass out some Golden Snitch truffles
It’s easy to use store-bought truffles to make your replicas of the infamous Golden Snitch (the most valuable ball in the broomstick-based game of Quidditch, which gets hunted by the Seeker throughout the game).
10. Be like Harry and gobble down some treacle tart
This is Harry Potter’s absolute favorite dessert, a simple pie made of golden syrup and only a few other ingredients. Follow the recipe above to serve it at your own party!
11. Grab your candy molds and make homemade chocolate frogs
Although these chocolate frogs won’t move around like the ones in Harry Potter, they’re still a pretty cool and recognizable addition to a party snack spread.
12. Make sweet and salty Nimbus 2000 broomsticks
Not only are they easy to make, but these candy broomsticks made with peanut butter cups and pretzel sticks are also super tasty.
13. Get festive with a party-perfect Sorting Hat cheese ball
Serve a cheese ball in the shape of the famed Hogwarts Sorting Hat for a fun and festive snack table centerpiece. Speaking of the Sorting Hat, we think a Harry Potter food idea like this would be especially at home at Hastings Hogwarts apartment, an event space rental in Greer, SC! If you’re in the area, consider booking it for your themed party.
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14. Go quirky with Mandrake pigs in a blanket
Make the infamous screaming Mandrakes that Hogwarts students are forced to contend with in Herbology class. They’re simply hot dogs wrapped in crescent rolls, with eyes cut for noses and mouths and a raw spinach leaf added at the end.
15. Tempt them with Deathly Hallows sugar cookies
Sugar cookies with the symbol of the Deathly Hallows (the Elder Wand, Resurrection Stone, and Cloak of Invisibility) are a perfectly thematic sweet treat. Why not serve them in this Hollywood Haven – escape to cinematic bliss event home in Los Angeles, CA? It provides you with multiple themed rooms to explore, including a Harry Potter bedroom!
Harry Potter food ideas: conclusion
We hope these Harry Potter food ideas have you even more excited than ever to plan a magical themed party. Remember, food is only one part of the equation. You also need a thrilling event space to hold your party, which is what we at Peerspace can help you find. Use our platform to search for and book magical event venues near you that have the style and amenities you want. Once you do, you’ll be well on your way to hosting a party your guests will always remember!
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