1. Snitch Cake-- For Harry's birthday, Mrs. Weasley made a floating snitch cake. While mine can't fly I thought it turned out pretty fun. All I did was use Wilton's Sports ball cake pan. I made a chocolate cake with vanilla frosting colored a pale yellow then dusted with gold shimmer. For the wings I used thin skewer sticks and glued on vellum cut into a wing shape.
2. Pumpkin Pasties--
Pie crust**
1 cup canned pureed pumpkin
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp cloves
1/4 tsp ginger
dash of nutmeg
Combine the filling ingredients in a mixing bowl and stir well.
* For the pie crust you can use a large premade unbaked one and cut into small rounds, make your own dough, or as we have begun to do, go to a Mexican market and buy premade and cut uncooked baking empanada rounds. These are perfect and extremely easy to use.
Spoon equal amounts of filling into center of each round. Fold over and seal edge with egg-white wash and crimp edge with a fork. Cut 3 slits into top. Brush tops with remaining egg-white wash and bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 for 25-30 minutes until golden (or whatever pie dough calls for). Cool and serve.
3. Mad-eyes (Oreo truffles)-- Annicka made these tasty and rich little guys. They are super good and can be decorated any which way. We just did them as Mad-eyes in honor of his death in Harry Potter 7.
1 package Oreo cookies, finely crushed.
1 (8oz) package cream cheese
toppings of choice
Crush oreos in a ziploc bag with a rolling pin or in a food processor. Mix together cream cheese and Oreo crumbs and form into balls. Dip in melted chocolate or white chocolate as we did. Refrigerate at least 1 hour until firm. If you want to sprinkle with cookie crumbs, sprinkles, etc. do that before refrigeration.
4. Butterbeer-- This is Kellie's wonderful recipe. This one serves 2-4 people but it is easy to make a bunch and then just add cream soda to each serving. When we make a big batch wekeep it warm and just pour about 1/8-1/4 cup of the creamy mix into a cup and pour over with (unheated) cream soda.
1/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
1/4 cup butterscotch topping
2 tablespoons whipped butter (room temp)
1 1/2 cup vanilla cream soda
Combine condensed milk, butterscotch topping and butter. Heat mixture until butter has melted and incorporated into mixture. Heat cream soda and add mixture, stir thoroughly
5. Polyjuice Potion Punch-- This is the easy Mormon sherbert punch. I just used a carton of Raspberry sherbet with 1 L. of regular 7 up and 1 of diet 7 up. if foams and fizzles.
6. Treacle Fudge-- This I made as more of a novelty item for a British flair to the party. Not my personal favorite.
1/2 cup evaporated milk
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 tsp salt
4 oz unsweetened chocolate
2 Tbsp. butter
1/3 cup treacle or molasses
In a large bowl mix milk, brown sugar, and salt. In a saucepan melt chocolate and butter together. Remove from heat and add molassess. Add the chocolate mixture to the milk mixture and pour into a pan to cool. Cut into squares and serve.
Drinking our butterbeers.
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