Harry Potter inspired Recipes

I am a huge fan of Harry Potter, I love the books, and am so excited for the movie.  It will be sad to see it all come to an end.  This week, I will be sharing all things Harry Potter, and to start the week off, I thought I would share these recipes I found, and one that I made.

Rosmerta's Recipes - Ton Tongue Toffee

Ingredients:

• 2 cups sugar
• 8 tablespoons of butter
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract (or imitation)
• 1½ cups water
• Additionally, a candy thermometer is required

Directions:

Step 1: In a medium saucepan, mix all ingredients and melt over medium heat until sugar is completely dissolved.

Step 2: Without further stirring, boil until mixture reaches 290°F on your candy thermometer.

Step 3: Pour mixture into a greased or buttered 9"x12" pan and let cool until almost firm to the touch.

Step 4: Score surface into 2" squares with a sharp knife, but do not cut completely.

Step 5: When cool, break into pieces (this should be easier if toffee was properly scored).

Step 6: Enjoy! Makes 1¼ pounds of toffee. 
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Cauldron Cakes
Ingredients:-

Tastycakes or home made cupcakes.

Cotton candy

Licorice string

Method:-
1. Scoop out center of cupcake.
2. Put cotton candy into center.
3. Add licorice Handle

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Jelly Slugs
Ingredients:-

8 - tablespoons sugar

2/3 - cup cranberry juice -EDIT-

4 - tablespoons light corn syrup

4 - envelopes (4 tablespoons) unflavored gelatin

Red Food Coloring

Confectioners' Sugar ( also known as icing sugar )

Method:-

Place sugar, juice, and corn syrup into a saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until the sugar dissolves. Sprinkle in gelatin and cook and stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved. Stir in 2 or 3 drops of food coloring. Pour mixture into a bread pan coated with cooking oil spray. Let stand at room temperature until very firm, about 2 hours. Turn the pan over and remove the jelly (If jelly sticks, set the bottom of the pan in hot water for a few minutes.) Place on a work surface sprinkled with confectioners' sugar. With a sharp knife or a small cookie cutter, cut the jelly into worm shapes. Place on a platter lined with wax paper. Store in a cool, dry place. Do not refrigerate.

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Cockroach Cluster

Ingredients:-

6 oz. melted chocolate

6 oz. peanuts (unsalted)

chocolate jimmies/ chocolate sprinkles

Method:-

1. Melt chocolate in double boiler or microwave.
2. Stir in peanuts.
3. Drop onto wax Paper.
4. Before chocolate sets sprinkle jimmies onto cluster...enjoy!

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Treacle Fudge

Ingredients:-

1/2 cup light cream or evaporated milk

3/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 ounces or unsweetened chocolate

2 tablespoons unsalted butter

1/3 cup molasses

Method:-

In a large bowl, mix cream, brown sugar, and salt together. In a saucepan, melt the chocolate and butter together. Remove from heat and add molasses. Add the chocolate mixtures and cream mixtures together. Pour mixture into a pan and let cool. Cut into squares after cooled and serve.

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Pumpkin Pasties:-

Ingredient:-

Pre-made sugar cookie dough (break apart; otherwise slice and mold sugar)

Cookie to fit into muffin pan.

Pumpkin pie filling

Powdered sugar

Method:-

1. Mold sugar cookie into muffin pan.
2. Pour pie filling into muffin pan.
3. Let Bake at 350 degrees.
4. Allow it to cool
5. Sprinkle powdered sugar on top

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Acid Pops

Ingredients:-

Lollipops

Honey

Pop rocks

Method:-

1. Dip lollipop into honey.
2. Then roll lollipop into pop rocks. Enjoy.

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Magical Wands

Ingredients:

Twizzlers

Chocolate melts

sprinkles

Melt Chocolates according to packages.  I always use Wilton's chocolate melts, they taste amazing and are easy to use.  

Dip twizzlers into chocolate and lay on wax paper,

 top with sprinkles while still warm, let cool and enjoy.   

Use whatever twizzlers you enjoy most, we love the sweet and sour ones, so I knew they would disappear. 

Not only are they pretty, they taste so good, chocolate makes everything better!  

The great things about these, is you can put them in a Ziploc bag, and carry them in to see HP7 on Friday!  

Have a Tasty Week!