Harry Potter Candy and Sweets

Magical candy in Harry Potter's world does things like jump in your stomach, burn a hole in your tongue, taste like blood (for vampires of course) and turn you into a canary. 

Such sweets may not be approved by our government, but they'd sure be a lot of fun - especially if we had magic around to fix whatever went wrong. 

Here's a list of magical candy you can get an aproximation of at home, for a birthday party or as a trick or treat handout at Halloween. 

Chocolate Frogs

Chocolate frogs are of course alive in Harry Potter's world, though as Ronald Weasley says on train ride to school in the first movie 'they've only got one good jump in them'. 

Chocolate frogs are for sale in shops, but it's way better to make them yourself, using one of those candy molds. 

Licorice Wands

Licorice is the Dutch treat par excelance. Could not avoid saying that. That said: licorice wands are merely licorice sticks of course, especially since they can't really do magic, even in Harry Potter's world. 

Tasty though. 

Peppermint Toads

You can make your own 'pepermint toads' by making chocolate frogs (using that same mould), using green food coloring to make them toads (on white chocolate) and pepermint oil or ground pepermints to give it that pepermint flavor. 

Don't overdo it on the pepermint oil: it's very easy to use too much pepermint oil, it's strong stuff.

Bertie Bott's Every Flavour Beans

These are really jelly beans of course, and in tribute to the movies, they make them in collections with a larger variety of tastes than ever. 

Lemon drops (USA) or Sherbet lemons (UK)

Dumbledore is aparently into sweets, lemon tasting ones especially. 

Chocolate

Nothing magical about it, you say? Well... according to J.K. Rowling it can heal you from the depression caused by a dementor. And let's face it, haven't we all felt cheered by chocolate from time to time?