DIY Harry Potter Sweets Candy Table

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I may have mentioned once or twice that I’m a massive Harry Potter fan – when we got married in 2016 we decided to bring a touch of magic to our big day with a table full of Harry Potter Sweets inspired by the fictional HoneyDukes Sweet Shop

Creating my very own Harry Potter Sweets was probably one of the most fun things I did for my wedding and something that brought me a lot of enjoyment during what was actually a really stressful time. I loved getting super creative and I think the end result turned out really well.

Plus, with a bit of know-how, I think a Harry Potter inspired candy bar or Harry Potter sweet table is something that can easily be achieved by anyone, whether it’s for a wedding, a Harry Potter party or even just for fun!

See my Harry Potter Gift Guide here

Finding Harry Potter Sweets: Harry Potter Sweet Ideas

Obviously, the biggest cost for creating our Harry Potter Sweet Table was the sweets themselves. Buying them in bulk saved us a lot of money and there are several options for doing this, depending on your circumstances and what offers are available at the time.

Official Harry Potter Sweets are very expensive so we used as few of these as possible. Plus, making up our own Harry Potter Inspired Candy was lots of fun too.

I’ve used Amazon links in this section to show exactly which sweets I’m talking about but some may be cheaper elsewhere and of course, prices do change.

I’ve included a list at the end of the post with some of the best buys for sweets available to create a Harry Potter Sweet Table at the time of posting.

The only official Harry Potter Sweets we bought for our Harry Potter Sweet Table were the Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans which were around £3 for a tiny little packet.

However, since our wedding, B&M stores have started doing their own version which is much cheaper. They are actually more a dupe of the Bean Boozled game but are perfect to use and I honestly don’t think anyone would notice the difference or know that they were not real Harry Potter Sweets.

We used Cadbury’s Freddo Bars instead of Harry Potter Chocolate Frogs (which are crazy expensive to buy – £4.50 for one!) and then handmade chocolate frog boxes using a template, which you can find here.

These were the most expensive item we bought for our Harry Potter Inspired Sweet Table at around £12 for a box of 60 back in 2016. You could also use this box of unbranded chocolate frogs on Amazon for just under £10 as a good and much cheaper alternative.

The Bulk of our Harry Potter Inspired Sweets came from an offer on Groupon which was around £20 for 6 large random tubs of Haribo Sweets.

We had no idea what we were getting so we had to be creative – we used a list of Official  Harry Potter Sweets and some Artistic License to come up with names most of which hopefully sounded like candy that could be bought at Honeydukes sweet shop!

You can find a comprehensive list of Honey Dukes Candy and Harry Potter Sweets here.

Where To Buy Harry Potter Sweets and Confectionary

Below I’ve listed lots of sweets which are available online which could be turned into Harry Potter Sweets or Harry Potter Confectionary with a bit of imagination and creativity. One thing I loved about making our DIY Harry Potter Candy Bar was getting to be super creative and of course eating lots of sweets.

Harry Potter Inspired Sweets List:

• These Super Sour Lollies could become ‘Acid Pops’
• Flying Saucers could become ‘Fizzing Whizbees’
• White Chocolate Skulls become ‘Edible Dark Marks’
• Giant Jelly Snakes could be becoming ‘Jumping snake’s OR ‘Edible Basilisks’ (not a real a Harry Potter thing but still in keeping with the theme
• These Haribo Sticxx become ‘Edible wands’
• We used retro Pineapple Cubes instead of Crystallized pineapple (Slughorn eats it) and put out Sherbet lemons (Dumbledore’s Favourites)
• We also put out sweets that seem vaguely in keeping with the wizarding theme such as white chocolate mice, Fruity Frogs (I think we called them Trevor toads!) and some other random sweets we labelled as ‘Puking Pastilles’
• U-No-Poo (a Weasley brothers creation) look like Green smarties so if you can find these (or green only M&S) for a good price this might be an option too.
• We also bought a huge bag of normal Jelly Beans and Labeled them as ‘Muggle Jelly Beans’ as it was a great cheap way to bulk things out on our Harry Potter Sweet Table.

A few more Harry Potter themed Sweet Table Ideas

Giant Spiders – could call them Aragogs Children.

Yellow-Bellied Giant Snakes – More sakes

If you or your partner are a member of a Cash and Carry such as Costco or Bookers they are by far the cheapest place to get sweets with most large tubs being around £2.99 and obviously you get to choose exactly what you want.

Sweets like Sherbet Lemons may actually be cheaper to buy from the supermarket.

I managed to get boxes of Ferrero Rocher reduced to £1 in my local Co-op before our wedding and I have seen people get them very cheap post-Christmas too. I then simply cut wings from folded pieces of white paper and glued them on top.

A bit fiddly but I love how they turned out! We called them Golden Snitch Truffles and they were one of my favourites things about our DIY Harry Potter Candy Bar!

Jars and Scoops

I was actually fortunate enough to be lent all of the scoops and jars we used by my lovely Florist.

However, I really think there is no need to rush and buy any, we used all sorts of things – cake stands, vases, candleholders, wooden boxes, jewellery boxes.

Ask your friends and family if they have anything they could lend you that might be suitable for a DIY Harry Potter-themed Sweet Table.

Worst case scenario you could use the tubs the sweets came inlined with different coloured tissue papers.

• Paper bags can be found on Amazon here.
• Plastic Scoops can be found here.
• Metal Tongs can befound here. 

Customizing your Harry Potter Sweet Table Or Harry Potter Candy Bar

We made the tags for our sweets ourselves by printing out the background colour first and then printing out the names of the sweets in a Harry Potter replica font which can be found here. 

Hand printing your own tags would also be a nice idea, although somewhat time-consuming! This is something we actually did for our name tags at our wedding and I love how they turned out.

• Find the Craft Tags Here
• Find the Stamping Kit Here
• Tutorial for making the tags can be found here

Cheapest Places to get Sweets For Your Harry Potter Candy Bar

As I mentioned above, the cheapest place to get Harry Potter sweets can vary massively depending on the time of year and what offers are available.

The number of sweets you will need to buy will also depend on the size of your party – if it’s a children’s party with 20 or attendees it may not be worth bothering with bulk buying and simply getting everything you need from the supermarket.

If it’s for a wedding party of 200 then bulk buying from eBay or Groupon is probably going to be the best way to go!

I’ve actually written a whole post on how to get cheap sweets for DIY Sweet table – find it here.I also have a post on finding cheap Halloween sweets, many of which would fit with a  Harry Potter theme.

While we’re on the subject of Harry Potter, I also have another post which explains how you can tell if your Harry Potter Book is a First Edition and whether or not it could be worth a lot of money!

Other Harry Potter Party Ideas

Whether you’re making a Harry Potter Sweet Table or Candy Bar for a kids party or a completely themed wedding or event, here are a few bits and bobs that might really make things extra magical.

Harry Potter Tableware

Harry Potter Candles
Harry Potter Novelty Glasses

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