Those of you who have read my previous Harry Potter Birthday post know that a few days ago, my little sister turned 18 and to celebrate I threw her a Harry Potter inspired party. Today I'm going to show you the Harry Potter themed treats I made for the party, including little DIY tips and links to the eBay stores where I found some of the stuff I used. So to start, we have the must-have of all HP parties...
Chocolate Frogs
To make these, I first had buy a frog-shaped mold. I found mine on eBay here but Amazon.com also has these if you're interested. To make my chocolate frogs, I also had to learn how to melt chocolate. Those who've tried it before know how easy it is to screw up and end up with burnt chocolate. Fortunately, I learned a little technique which makes the whole process super easy and practically fail proof.
Melting your chocolate and making the little frogs
1. The first thing you need to do is break your chocolate into even pieces. Chocolate bars are easy to work with because they are already marked evenly where you're supposed to break them.
2. Place your chocolate pieces in a microwave safe bowl. Place the bowl in your microwave and set it to 30 secs.
3. Once the first 30 secs are up, take the bowl out of the microwave and stir the chocolate a little. Since chocolate can actually retain its initial shape even when melted, this will help you know whether or not it's melted. Don't worry if at this stage it's not melted yet.
4. Put the bowl back into the microwave and set it again to 30 secs. Afterwards, take the bowl out, stir your chocolate and then put it back for another 30 secs.
5. Repeat this process until you have melted chocolate with a similar consistency to, say, Nutella. You chocolate will really start to melt around the 2nd or 3rd trip into the microwave.
6. Once you have your melted chocolate, you need to work fast because your chocolate will start cooling and hardening quickly.
7. With a spoon, take your melted chocolate and place it in the mold.
8. Once the mold has been filled, leave the chocolate to cool. You can start unmolding your little frogs after a bit less than 2hrs. I was terrified of screwing up since it was my first time making anything like this so I ended up waiting for two solid hours before unmolding my frogs. You probably don't have to wait that long though!
9. And here's the final result:
9. And here's the final result:
The Chocolate Frog Cards
You can find free printables online including this one. I wasn't satisfied with the designs available online though, so I decided to make my own. I designed these on Microsoft Word with pictures I found online. After printing my cards, I folded then along the middle line and then glued both sides together. And in case you were wondering, the messages are written in French :) If you want more precision on how I made my cards, send me an email and I'll gladly give you further explanations.
The Chocolate Frog Box
You can find free printables of the boxes with the original design from the Harry Potter parks online, such as this one. I even printed one but at some point during the process of building the box I realized that it would end up being too small for my chocolate and card. So I instead downloaded a free printable of a pillow box here and used that as my box. I made a couple of Chocolate Frog labels on Microsoft word and stuck them on my box. And yes, Chocogrenouille is French for Chocolate Frog ;)
Bertie Bott's Flavored Beans
This one was even easier to do than the Chocolate Frogs because you can just buy jellybeans to use as your Flavored Beans. I got a free printable of the box online here and after putting it together, I just filled it with my jellybeans. The only tricky part was probably getting the pointed top of the box right.
So that's it for my Harry Potter treats. If you want to know more about any of the items mentioned here, don't hesitate to send me an email! In my next post I'll show you the crafts and DIY projects I made for my sister's HP party. Until then, you can check out my Harry Potter Birthday post to have a look at the crafts and decoration items I'll be talking about in my next post.
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Gosh! You have put so much effort into it. Great Work! :D
ReplyDeleteI just started reading Harry Potter series :P. I am finding it better than movies and can't put it down :)
I will be definitely following your ideas to arrange a HP themed party in fufture :))
Right now, I plan on buying a scarf from ebay ;). Loved the one you bought for your sister.
Wish Loads of fun!
Thanks Ria :) I'm glad you found my posts helpful! The scarf is not expensive at all and is quite nice for the price.
DeleteI love that chocolate frog mold. I make then for every Harry Potter party/movie viewing/friend gathering. Any activity that I can sneak in a Harry Potter reference. I'm glad you made a post breaking down how to make some of the stuff from the part post because I was curious! You put a lot of effort into these and it shows! Everything is so cool. :D Your chocolate frog cards look amazing!
ReplyDeleteThanks Alex ^_^
DeleteAhhh this is awesome :D You're so crafty! Thanks for sharing where you got the items needed to create these masterpieces! I'll definitely have to whip up some HP goodies soon ;)
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you enjoyed this post :)
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