The 6 Foods Found On the Hogwarts Express Trolley
The Six Foods Found on the
Hogwarts Express Trolley
Hogwarts Express Menus & Recipes
Step aboard the Hogwarts Express for a taste of the wizarding world! From Pumpkin Pasties to Chocolate Frogs, discover the six foods from the trolley and recreate the magic at home or find quick Muggle-world substitutes for your own Hogwarts party.
What food is on the Hogwarts Express?
As Harry’s first real taste of the wizarding world, the trolley on the Hogwarts Express introduced six iconic sweets and snacks that instantly became fan favourites: Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes and Licorice Wands. That first encounter is one of the most memorable moments in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, as Harry enters a magical world.
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He had never had any money for candy with the Dursleys, and now that he had pockets rattling with gold and silver he was ready to buy as many Mars Bars as he could carry — but the woman didn’t have Mars Bars. What she did have were Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum, Chocolate Frogs, Pumpkin Pasties, Cauldron Cakes, Licorice Wands, and a number of other strange things Harry had never seen in his life.
-Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, JK Rowling
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans
“A risk with every mouthful!”
One of the most popular sweets in the wizarding world, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans look almost identical to Muggle jelly beans, except their range encompasses every flavour imaginable. There’s no way to know what you’ll get until you taste it!
“You want to be careful with those. When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour — you know, you get all the ordinary ones like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey flavoured one once. Bleaaargh — see? Sprouts.“
🔗 Recipe: Homemade Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans
Packaging: Find the Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans box printable from Little Falling Star on Deviantart.
💡 Quick Hack: Grab a bag of Jelly Belly’s BeanBoozled jelly beans. Same concept, but Muggle-friendly!
Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum
This bubble gum, said to be “guaranteed never to lose its flavour,” lets the chewer blow bluebell-coloured bubbles that refuse to pop for days. It’s a Honeydukes staple in “crazyberry” flavour.
🔗 Recipe: Drooble’s Best Blowing Gum
🛍️ Find packaging: Print Drooble’s wrapper packaging from Harry Potter Fandom.
💡 Quick Hack: Substitute with Hubba Bubba blue raspberry gum or use gumballs.
Honeydukes Chocolate Frogs
Enchanted with a spell that makes them leap like real frogs, each Honeydukes Chocolate Frog comes with a collectible card featuring a famous witch or wizard, such as Dumbledore or Merlin. The original recipe calls for 70% Croakoa chocolate to enhance the magical jump.
🔗 Recipe: Honeydukes Chocolate Frogs
🛍️ Find packaging: Download a free version here to print on thick card or find official The Wizarding World of Harry Potter replica kits.
💡 Quick Hack: Buy a pack of Freddo Frogs (Australia) or frog-shaped chocolate molds and fill with melting chocolate.
Pumpkin Pasties
Sold both at Honeydukes and on the Hogwarts Express trolley, Pumpkin Pasties are a wizarding twist on the Cornish pasty, a hand-held pie filled with sweet pumpkin purée instead of meat or vegetables.
🔗 Recipe: Pumpkin Pasties
🛍️ Find packaging: Slip into small brown dessert boxes or brown paper bags with a Hogwarts Express sticker.
💡 Quick Hack: Use store-bought mini pumpkin pies or fill ready-made puff pastry with canned pumpkin pie mix.
Qizilbash Cauldron Cakes
Described as being sold “in a stack,” these are a Honeydukes favourite.
🔗 Recipe: Cauldron Cakes
🛍️ Find packaging: Qizilbash Cauldron Cakes packaging is found on TheRPF.com.
💡 Quick Hack: Pick up chocolate lava cakes or self-saucing puddings and serve in cauldron-style cups.
Licorice Wands
Simple but charming, Licorice Wands are sticks of licorice shaped like wands, the perfect treat for underage witches and wizards still waiting for their first real wand! Some dip these wands in chocolate or sprinkle with sugar crystals for extra magic.
🔗 Recipe: Licorice Wands
🛍️ Find packaging: Download Honeydukes Licorice Wand boxes here.
💡 Quick Hack: Buy Twizzlers licorice, brush with sugar syrup and dust with edible glitter for wizarding sparkle, or dip in chocolate and sprinkle with edible sprinkles.
