Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Menus and Recipes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Menus and Recipes
Step through the factory gates and into a world of pure imagination.
From chocolate rivers and lickable wallpaper to everlasting gobstoppers and fizzy lifting drinks, Willy Wonka’s creations are as inventive as they are irresistible.
Whether you’re planning a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory party, teaching Roald Dahl’s story in the classroom or simply dreaming up your own sweet inventions, this guide explores every delicious detail found in Wonka’s inventing rooms.
What food is in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
The Buckets’ table is bare, with meagre meals of bread, boiled potatoes, and watery cabbage soup. But once Charlie unwraps his Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight Chocolate Bar and discovers the Golden Ticket, he enters a world where every inventing room is filled with fantastical sweets, from Fizzy Lifting Drinks, Lickable Wallpaper, Everlasting Gobstoppers to candies that glow in the dark.
Life Before the Golden Ticket
Before stepping into Wonka’s world of endless sweets, Charlie Bucket’s life was one of quiet hunger and longing. In a tiny wooden house on the edge of town, he and his family survived on bread and margarine for breakfast, boiled potatoes and cabbage for lunch, and cabbage soup for supper, meals so thin that Sundays were special simply because everyone was allowed a second helping.
But once a year for his birthday, Charlie receives a small chocolate bar, Wonka’s Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight, saved and savoured piece by piece.
Searching for the Golden Ticket
Grandpa Joe secretly bought Charlie a Wonka’s Nutty Crunch Surprise, hoping luck might be on their side, but the wrapper held only chocolate. Then, on a cold winter morning, Charlie spots a fifty-pence piece glinting in the snow and uses it to buy another Whipple-Scrumptious Fudgemallow Delight.
Explore the Factory
Inventions in Wonka’s Factory
Discover what’s hidden behind each factory door, from the bubbling Chocolate River to the whirring Inventing Room. Browse and explore the sweets, drinks, and desserts that make Willy Wonka’s world unforgettable.
From Charlie’s Grandparents’ Stories
Before Charlie ever sets foot inside Wonka’s chocolate factory, he’s already heard of Mr. Wonka’s incredible inventions from the tales he’s been told.
- Chocolate Ice Cream That Never Melts: Wonka’s invention that stays cold for hours, even under the sun.
- Marshmallows That Taste of Violets: Delicate, floral marshmallows from Wonka’s factory.
- Colour-Changing Caramels: Rich sweets that change hue every ten seconds as you suck them.
- Feathery Sweets: Light as air, they melt away the moment they touch your lips.
- Chewing-Gum That Never Loses Its Taste: Everlasting flavour gum for endless chewing.
- Sugar Balloons: Confections you can blow up before popping and eating.
- Lovely Blue Birds’ Eggs: Candies that shrink into tiny sugary birds on your tongue.
- The Chocolate Palace for Prince Pondicherry: A one-hundred-room palace built entirely of chocolate, from bricks to running taps, that melted spectacularly in the Indian sun.
Fickelgruber, Prodnose and Slugworth’s Stolen Inventions
Years earlier, jealous rivals sent spies to steal Wonka’s recipes, forcing Mr. Wonka to shut his gates and vanish from public view. Shuttered and silent, the great chocolate factory became a mystery, until the day the gates opened once more and five golden tickets promise the adventure of a lifetime.
- Fickelgruber’s Never-Melting Ice Cream: A copy of Wonka’s own ice cream recipe that stayed solid even in the sun.
- Prodnose’s Everlasting Chewing-Gum: Stolen from Wonka’s experiments, a gum with flavour that never fades.
- Slugworth’s Sugar Balloons: A blatant imitation of Wonka’s edible balloons that could be blown up and popped.
The Chocolate Room
“An important room, this!” cried Mr Wonka… “This is the nerve centre of the whole factory, the heart of the whole business!”
- Chocolate River and Waterfall: The heart of Willy Wonka’s factory, this great brown river flows through a valley of edible meadows and flowers. The waterfall churns the chocolate, keeping it light, frothy, and perfectly mixed before it’s sent through glass pipes to every room in the factory.
- Minty Sugar Grass (Swudge): An invention by Mr. Wonka, this soft, mint-flavoured sugar grass covers the meadows like a sweet green carpet.
- Buttercups: Edible flowers, their petals are sugary.
- Fudge: “Go straight to the Fudge Room,” said Mr. Wonka… “If you leave him in the chocolate-mixing barrel too long, he’s liable to get poured out into the fudge boiler!”
Mentioned when Augustus Gloop tumbles into the Chocolate River, the Fudge Room is where the chocolate is transformed into rich, creamy confections, though Wonka jokes that Augustus might end up part of the batch if they don’t find him quickly.
Wonka’s Storerooms
“This is my private yacht!” cried Mr Wonka. “I made her by hollowing out an enormous boiled sweet!”
As Wonka’s pink boiled-sweet yacht glides through the chocolate tunnel, the children catch fleeting glimpses of mysterious doors…
Storerooms
- Storeroom 54 – All the Creams: A green door marked with a promise of: “DAIRY CREAM, WHIPPED CREAM, VIOLET CREAM, COFFEE CREAM, PINEAPPLE CREAM, VANILLA CREAM, AND HAIR CREAM.”
- Storeroom 71 – All the Whips: A black door labeled “WHIPS – ALL SHAPES AND SIZES.” Wonka explains it’s for whipping cream, declaring that “whipped cream isn’t whipped cream at all unless it’s been whipped with whips.”
- Storeroom 77 – All the Beans: A yellow door marked “CACAO BEANS, COFFEE BEANS, JELLY BEANS, AND HAS BEANS.”
The Inventing Room
“This is the most important room in the entire factory! All my most secret new inventions are cooking and simmering in here!”
- Everlasting Gobstoppers: Sweets that never grow smaller, designed for children with limited pocket money. One Oompa-Loompa in the Testing Room has been sucking one for nearly a year without it disappearing.
- Hair Toffee: A thick, purplish treacle meant to grow luxurious hair in just thirty minutes. The formula works too well!
- Three-Course Chewing-Gum Meal: Wonka’s proudest invention: a full three-course dinner in one stick: tomato soup, roast beef, and blueberry pie. Unfortunately, the dessert course turns Violet Beauregarde into a giant blueberry, sending her straight to the Juicing Room.
Rooms and Inventions Passed in the Corridors
“‘No time for any more messing about! We’ll never get anywhere at the rate we’ve been going!’ And on he rushed, down the endless pink corridors, with his black top hat perched on the top of his head and his plum-coloured velvet coat-tails flying out behind him like a flag in the wind.”
As Wonka’s pink boiled-sweet yacht glides through the chocolate tunnel, the children catch fleeting glimpses of mysterious doors…
- Eatable Marshmallow Pillows: soft, sweet confections that double as edible cushions; Wonka boasts they’ll soon be “all the rage.”
- Lickable Wallpaper for Nurseries: wallpaper printed with pictures of fruits; each tastes like the fruit it shows, including the mysterious snozzberry.
- Hot Ice Creams for Cold Days: ice cream that warms you up in winter, along with “hot ice cubes” for heating hot drinks.
- Cows That Give Chocolate Milk: Wonka’s beloved herd, a fanciful fusion of farm and fantasy.
- Fizzy Lifting Drinks: bubbly beverages that make drinkers float; the only way to come down is to burp.
- Square Sweets That Look Round: tiny white cubes with painted faces that literally look round when the door opens.
- Butterscotch and Buttergin Room: where Oompa-Loompas drink, sing, and “whoop it up,” enjoying butterscotch and soda or buttergin and tonic.
The Nut Room
“It was an amazing sight. One hundred squirrels were seated upon high stools around a large table. On the table, there were mounds and mounds of walnuts, and the squirrels were all working away like mad, shelling the walnuts at a tremendous speed.”
Whole Walnuts: Shelled only by Wonka’s specially trained squirrels, who tap each nut to test its quality before cracking it cleanly in one piece.
Bad Nuts and the Rubbish Chute: Any hollow-sounding walnut, and one “bad nut” named Veruca Salt, gets sent down the chute to join the factory’s discarded scraps. The rubbish also gathers fish heads, bacon rinds, stale bread, rotten nuts, reeking pears, rancid bacon rind, and other scraps.
‘Who eats fish and cabbage and potatoes in this factory, I’d like to know?’ said Mike Teavee. ‘I do, of course,’ answered Mr Wonka. ‘You don’t think I live on cacao beans, do you?’
Wonka’s Great Glass Elevator
Mr. Wonka sweeps them into a gleaming glass lift with thousands of buttons that whisk them not just up and down but sideways, slantways, and longways, too.
Rooms and Inventions Listed in the Elevator
- The Rock-Candy Mine, 10,000 Feet Deep: A vast subterranean mine where glittering veins of rock candy are extracted from the earth.
- Cokernut-Ice Skating Rinks: Frozen rinks made from coconut-flavoured ice.
- Strawberry-Juice Water Pistols: Playful toy weapons filled with strawberry juice, ready for edible mischief.
- Toffee-Apple Trees for Planting in Your Garden: Trees that grow real toffee apples, available in every size.
- Exploding Sweets for Your Enemies: Sweets designed for comic revenge, with a literal pop.
- Luminous Lollies for Eating in Bed at Night: Glow-in-the-dark candies for midnight snacking.
- Mint Jujubes for the Boy Next Door: Sweets that turn teeth bright green for a month — a prankster’s delight.
- Cavity-Filling Caramels: Self-repairing candies that fill cavities instantly, eliminating the need for dentists.
- Stickjaw for Talkative Parents: Chewy treats guaranteed to keep chatterboxes quiet.
- Wriggle-Sweets: Confections that squirm delightfully in your tummy after swallowing.
- Invisible Chocolate Bars: Perfect for eating chocolate unnoticed, especially during class.
- Sugar-Coated Pencils for Sucking: A school supply turned sweet treat.
- Fizzy Lemonade Swimming Pools: Entire pools filled with bubbling lemonade for the most refreshing swim imaginable.
- Magic Hand-Fudge: A mysterious fudge that transfers its flavour to your mouth the moment you hold it.
- Rainbow Drops: Sweets that let you spit in six dazzling colours after sucking them.
- Television Chocolate Room: The next stop, where Wonka’s wildest experiment awaits, sending chocolate bars through the airwaves.
Sights Through the Glass Elevator
- Fudge Mountain: A towering crag of rich fudge, where Oompa-Loompas, roped together for safety, carve out massive chunks from its sides.
- Caramel Lake: A shimmering pool of molten caramel sending up curls of sweet steam.
- Chocolate Spout: A giant nozzle spilling thick brown syrup across the floor, likely feeding some unseen confectionery contraption.
- Powder Machine: A roaring device that sprays fine white powder into the air like a sugar snowstorm.
The Television-Chocolate Room
‘Just imagine,’ cried Mr Wonka, ‘when I start using this across the country… you’ll be sitting at home watching television and suddenly a commercial will flash on to the screen and a voice will say, “EAT WONKA’S CHOCOLATES! THEY’RE THE BEST IN THE WORLD! IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE US, TRY ONE FOR YOURSELF – NOW!” And you simply reach out and take one! How about that, eh?’
- Television Chocolate: A full-sized chocolate bar that gets beamed across the room through television waves to reappear on screen at regular size so viewers can pluck it out and eat it.
- Supervitamin Chocolate: A Wonka creation packed with every vitamin from A to Z (and the rare “vitamin Wonka”) designed to plump Mike back up… and possibly make his toes as long as his fingers.