Badge: Harry Potter

Add a little more magic to your gathering with these recipe ideas. Try them yourself before handing them off to your kids.

Some of these may be used for a “Potions” class.

Steps

1. Decorate.

Whether cupcakes, sheet cakes or cookies, decorating with house colors, edible graph elements or colored fondant, you can make your own Harry Potter themed cakes. Don’t do all the work yourself! Make an example and let the kids create their own masterpieces.

2. Drink.

Check out the Enrichment Project recipe supplement for Brianne’s drinkable potions. Make one or more of the following.

Draught of Peace
Euphoria
Felix Felicis
Love Potion

If you don’t care for any of those, create your own. Use Brianne’s recipes and unusual ingredients for inspiration.

3. Wands.

Dip pretzel rods in melted white chocolate, almond bark or even frosting. Decorate with sprinkles. Perhaps replace the pretzel with licorice to make your wand or even a hard stick of candy. If it’s really hot, try popsicles to help keep your participants hydrated. Make any of the mentioned wands or create your own edible wand recipe.

4. Beverages.

Try creating butterbeer or pumpkin juice. Use the recipes from the Web or create your own. Experiment until you find one you like.

NOTE: You may wish to include alcoholic versions for adult parties. There is one recipe as an example in the supplement for this, but many more online if you wish to explore this further.

5. Frogs.

Purchase chocolate and forms from your local hobby store if you do not have any of your own. Melt chocolate and pour into form. Wrap each individually with paper or use one of the templates available online to wrap your frog.

You do not have to stick to frogs. Use your imagination. For example, heart-shaped chocolates can contain a “love potion.”.

6. Adjust.

By simple adjustments to candies to renaming them, here are a few ideas for your Honeyduke’s store.

Acid pops — dip sucker into warm water, then roll in pop rocks. Wrap in new wrapper.
Blood pops — red lollipops
Fizzing whizbees — pop rocks
Jelly slugs — gummi worms
Licorice wands — black or red licorice whips
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans — Jelly Bellies
Lemon drops — no adjustment necessary
Owl pellets — chocolate covered peanuts

After playing with these, try experimenting with purchased candy to adjust it into a more magical treat.

7. Candy.

You can also make your own candy with a Harry Potter theme. While chocolate was mentioned above, you can also find many other things in the candy section of your local craft store from the makings for gummies to hard candy. If you can’t find anything locally, check out the mecca of Amazon. Also do a search for candy recipes that will fit into the Harry Potter theme.

8. Muggle.

Since the stories are set in England, any English recipe will help add to your Harry Potter experience. Look for recipes that your participants are not likely to have tried before like Yorkshire pudding, scones and shepherd’s pie.

9. Christmas.

For a feast or Christmas theme, check out the “Harry Potter: Christmas at Hogwarts” badge program. Supplements included with it cover a wide variety of dishes popular in England to eat during the holidays.

10. Parties.

To get a wide variety of ideas for Harry Potter recipes, search the Web for kids’ parties. Parents are incredibly imaginative and they share their ideas. Find more ideas to add to your recipe collection.

11. Cards.

This badge program features printable recipe cards you might want to use to collect your Harry Potter recipes and make them instantly recognizable. There is a generic Harry Potter card, one for potions so you can mix your own brews and a set of four for the Hogwart Houses. The four might be a great way to have a cooking contest between the houses and then share the recipes with each other afterwards.

NOTE: All of the cards are 4.25” x 5.5”. This is not a standard size for recipe cards. Instead, they are this size to allow you to easily photocopy, do two cuts on a sheet and have 4 cards to distribute.

12. Create.

Making your own recipes can be a lot of fun. Start simple by changing out ingredients in recipes you already have or challenge yourself to create your own recipes from scratch. Need some magical inspiration? Check out YouTube, searching for “Harry Potter Recipes.”

Badge and Supplement Files

Member Level

0EP_B_BPG_HP_Recipes_2in_12up_MS1_larajla — generic badge printable
0EP_BLIST_HP_Recipes_MS1_larajla — badge items per membership level
0EP_BSET0_HP_Recipes_MS1_larajla —badge set and related badges
0EP_SUPP0_HP_Recipes_Journal_MS1_larajla — badge journal
0EP_SUPP0_HP_Recipes_Planner_MS1_larajla — badge planner
0EP_SUPPL_HP_Recipes_MS1_larajla — supplements currently available per membership level

Supplement Fun

0EP_SUPP0_List Fun_HP Rename Candy_MS2_larajla — List Fun: Rename Candy
0EP_SUPP0_Printable_REC_HP Gryffindor_MS2_larajla — Printble: Gryffindor recipe cards
0EP_SUPP0_Printable_REC_HP Harry Potter_MS2_larajla — Printble: Harry Potter recipe cards
0EP_SUPP0_Printable_REC_HP Hogwart Potions_MS2_larajla — Printble: Hogwart Potions recipe cards
0EP_SUPP0_Printable_REC_HP Hufflepuff_MS2_larajla — Printble: Hufflepuff recipe cards
0EP_SUPP0_Printable_REC_HP Ravenclaw_MS2_larajla — Printble: Ravenclaw recipe cards
0EP_SUPP0_Printable_REC_HP Slytherin_MS2_larajla — Printble: Slytherin recipe cards
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_Brianne Drinkable Potions_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Brianne’s Drinkable Potions (found)
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Butter Beer_Alcohol_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Butter Beer, alcoholic
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Butter Beer_Easy_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Butter Beer, easy
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Butter Beer_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Butter Beer
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Cockroach Clusters_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Cockroach Clusters
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Pumpkin Juice_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Pumpkin Juice
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Rock Cakes 2_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Rock Cakes (see another version in HP Christmas)
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Spotted Dick 2_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Spotted Dick (see another version in HP Christmas)
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Sugar Quills_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Sugar Quills
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Ton-Tongue Toffee_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Ton-Tongue Toffee
0EP_SUPP0_Recipe Fun_HP_Troll Bites_MS2_larajla — Recipe Fun: Troll Bites

Sites to Explore

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Get the PDFs of the badge program / supplements here

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