Are you getting excited? I am! Yesterday, I bought tickets online to see Deathly Hallows: Part II in 3D on Friday (Thanks Jess and Seth for the Fandango Gift card! We have been saving it for this very occasion!) Since the show premiers at midnight tomorrow, I really only have two more days to post Harry Potter themes treats, so come back tomorrow morning to see some last minute touches to your HP themed party.
Today, I am going to show you some really simple, fast sweets that you might find on the Hogwart’s Express sweet trolley. And you don’t need to go to Diagon Alley to find the ingredients.
Chocolate Frogs:
- Good quality chocolate for melting or chocolate melties
- Frog or toad candy mold
1. Put a pot of water on the stove and let it simmer over medium heat. Place a heat proof bowl on top of the pot and put the chocolate in side.
2. Stir the chocolate until melted and runny.
3. Immediately pour into candy molds. Let cool in the refirdgerator. Pop out of molds when ready to serve.
Peppermint Toads:
- White chocolate for melting
- a few drops of peppermint extract (found by vanilla in grocery stores)
- frog or toad candy mold
1. Follow the same instructions to melt the chocolate as in the chocolate frog recipe above. Keep a close eye on it because white chocolate is a little bit more temperamental.
2. When it starts to get runny, stir in a drop of peppermint extract. Taste it and add one drop at a time of peppermint until the desired taste is reached. It is strong stuff, so be careful and taste often.
3. If you want, you can add food coloring to the white chocolate. I tried to do a swirl of red, but I got the idea after the toads were already cooling in the molds, so it didn’t really swirl very well. You can see little specks of red, though.
4. Pour the white chocolate into candy molds. Let cool in fridge until hardened. Pop out of molds when ready to serve.
Licorice Wands:
- Any variety of licorice (twizzler, red vine, black, red, whatever)
- melted milk or dark chocolate
- melted white chocolate
- sprinkles
- parchment paper
1. Use the melted chocolate from making the frogs and toads, or follow the instructions on melting chocolate in the recipes above. I an even amount of each kind of chocolate.
2. Dip the top 1/2 of each licorice strand in the white or milk/dark chocolate.
3. Lay on a piece of parchment paper. Cover with sprinkles. Let chocolate harden, and serve.
Wingardium Leviosa!
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