The Unofficial Halloween Cookbook for Harry Potter Fans: Inspired Recipes for the Spookiest of Holidays

By Tom Grimm and Dimitrie Harder

Fifty creepy, crawly Halloween recipes inspired by the most popular wizard of all time!

Spooky stories involving the preparation and devouring of so many crazy foods call for a spooky cookbook—a really spooky cookbook. A book full of hideous cooking recipes for your next Harry Potter–inspired Halloween party. With demon fingers, arachnid eggs, or tombstone cake with tar glaze on your menu, your gathering will be sure to make a lasting impression. Use these recipes to create the ultimate spooky feast for your friends and foes! And don't be afraid to get even more creative. Let this book challenge you to invent even more disgusting and enchanted recipes of your own. 
Enjoy the full-color, full-page (extremely detailed) photographs throughout, as you prepare yourself to create dishes and drinks such as:  
 

• Swamp Juice
• Moldy Peanuts
• Worm Salad
• Slime Soup
• Bat Bites
• Shrunken Potato Heads
• Witch Hats
• Chocolate Tarantulas
• Restoration Potion
• Maggot Loaf
• Pull-Apart Magical Bubble Bread
• Licorice Slugs
• Pumpkin Pasties
• and more!

With this unique spooky cookbook, you'll dive into the culinary ghost world of your favorite wizard and his best friends as you plan your next Halloween soiree! 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Skyhorse
• Release date: Aug 23, 2022
• ISBN: 9781510774209

Tom Grimm

Tom Grimm, born in 1972, apprenticed as a bookseller and has been working ever since as an author, translator, screenwriter, journalist, editor, and producer for a number of international publishers. Alongside his enthusiasm for literature, movies, and video games, he especially enjoys amusement parks, travel, listening to Rammstein, good food, bad jokes, and firing up the grill year-round. He is a passionate amateur cook, although not much of a baker. Even so, he has managed to win the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and other distinctions for his work. Tom lives with his family, a literal pride of cats, and several life-size images of Batman, Kung Fu Panda, Rayman, and Thrall the Orc. He lives and works in a small town in the west of Germany that is really and truly nothing to write home about. (Not kidding. Really.)

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

Project Manager: Hannah Kwella

Editing & Compilation, Texts & Recipes: Tom Grimm, Grinning Cat Productions

Food Photography: Dimitrie Harder & Tom Grimm

Graphic Design, Typesetting & Layout: Roberts Urlovskis

Cover Design: Roberts Urlovskis

Cover Illustrations & Inside Illustrations: Angelos Tsirigotis

Print ISBN: 978-1-5107-7419-3

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-7420-9

Printed in China

Some words are trademarked and are the property of the trademark holder. They have been used for identification purposes only with no intention of infringement of the trademark. The book is not authorized or endorsed by J. K. Rowling; Pottermore Ltd.; Wizarding World Digital LLC.; Warner Bros Entertainment, Inc.; or any other Harry Potter rights holder.

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Michél Kevin Hubel

(1983–2020)

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Contents

Introduction

Demon Fingers

Swamp Juice

Bones & Skeleton

Moldy Peanuts

Slime Soup

Worm Salad

Giant Spider Goo

World’s Worst Jelly Beans

Bat Bites

A Monster of a Tome

Enchanted Hat

Screaming Potted Plant Babies

Giant Spider Eggs

Shrunken Potato Heads

Stuffed Cockroaches

Witch Hats

Gravestone Cake with Tar Glaze

Chocolate Tarantulas

Bat Blood Soup

Raven Charred Pastries and Very Moldy Cheese

Stuffed Shrunken Heads

Spoiled Fish

Slime-Covered Giant Spider Eggs

Graveyard Rocks

Bowl of Fire

Eyeball Punch

Pumpkin Soup

Restoration Potion

Witches’ Brooms

Pumpkin Juice

Maggot Loaf

Ghost Posts

Grilled Monster Thighs

Grub Worms

Bloodsuckers

Pull-Apart Magical Bubble Bread

Sneaky Sandwich

Crazy-Eyed Skewers

Hell Served Three Ways

Magic Apples

Chopped Toffees

Scraps of Crunchy Skin

Meaty Tarantula Eyes

Astral Droppings

Magic Cauldron

Full Moon Potion

Dragon Meatballs

Hearty Hate Mail

Pumpkin Pasties

Bouncy Fungi

Tripe

Ash Ice Cream

Punch Bowl o’ Shrunken Heads

Licorice Slugs

Caretaker’s Cucumber Sandwich

Demon Dog

Black Pudding

Whole Salted Herring

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Every year on October 31st, in many places around the world, people say: Trick or treat? What kind of a question is that?

Trick, of course!

Anyone who knows me knows that (aside from my family) I love few things as much as the Wizarding World of Harry Potter: namely good food, bad jokes, amusement parks, the band Rammstein, holidays—and Halloween! Forget Easter, Christmas, New Year’s, and World Pretzel Day—the only relevant holiday for me has always been the evening before All Saints’ Day, when everything from hell emerges. Ghosts, goblins, trolls, and demons roam the earth freely and undisturbed, pulling practical jokes on the unsuspecting little humans who think all these creatures of darkness are merely disguised as werewolves, vampires, zombies, and ghouls.

Naturally, unsuspecting only applies to the Muggles among us who are blind to all the magic and wonder our world holds in store for those willing to take a closer look. Like the spellcasters and Potterheads out there! Thanks in no small part to the Harry Potter series, we know the meaning of Halloween.

Deaths of beloved family members, battles with trolls, the opening of secret chambers, magic school competitions … quite a bit happens on Halloween. And, if you remember, since Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington has haunted Hogwarts as Nearly Headless Nick, throwing a small celebration every year to commemorate his Death Day, to which Harry, Ron, and Hermione are also invited during their first year at the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Even if it is an honor for the friends to attend, they would’ve preferred to do so without seeing their host’s rather questionable choice of food.

And speaking of questionable food choices!

I’ve got some offerings that I’m sure Sir Nicholas would be delighted with!

Ready for a puke test?

How about some horror’d’oeuvres with Demon Fingers, Stuffed Cockroaches, Grub Worms, or Eyeball Punch? Or I can highly recommend the Crazy-Eyed Skewers, Bat Blood Soup, Sneaky Sandwich, Dragon Meatballs, Spoiled Fish, and the Bacon-Wrapped Tarantula Eyes. And to make the next visit to Madam Pomfrey in the Hospital Wing worthwhile, there’s such magnificent tastelessness afterward, such as Chopped Toffees, Moldy Peanuts, the Worst Jelly Beans in the World, Gravestone Cakes with Tar Glaze, and the Monster of a Tome, washed down with a hearty gulp of Restoration Potion or Swamp Juice. All lovingly prepared, of course, since you eat (with) your eyes first!

On that note: Bon appétit!

Sincerely,

Tom Grimm

Demon Fingers

Since not everyone has notable cooking skills or can fall back on magic, individual recipes in this book are kept so simple that even a troll could prepare them. This applies, for example, to this dish, which can be made very easily.

15-18 FINGERS

1½ sticks (175 g) butter, softened

½ cup (100 g) sugar

Pinch salt

1 medium egg

2¾ cups (330 g) flour

3 tbsp (3 EL) sour cherry jam

15–18 whole shelled almonds

Cocoa powder, to decorate

Preheat the oven to 355°F (180°C), and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

In a bowl, beat the butter, sugar, and salt with a hand mixer, then add the egg. Mix thoroughly. Add