Hey there!
It has been FAR too long! It's been a busy...several months! I had a request in the comments to post the template I used for the chocolate frog boxes, as well as the recipes I used for several of the magical food items we made for my most recent Harry Potter party, so be prepared for a number of posts in the next couple days!
I thought I would start with the chocolate frog box template. If anyone has been on Pinterest, I'm sure you've seen this image floating around the pinning universe:
I'm not sure who uploaded this image, but credit goes to them for it. Basically this is an actual Chocolate Frog box that you might purchase at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter or the Studio Tour in London, that has been unfolded and scanned in. I appreciate whoever went through the effort of doing this because it's what I used as the starting point for the one I created. I took this image and cleaned it up a bit, removed all the advertising and nutritional information on the back, and added the "70% finest croakoa." There are several templates for Chocolate Frog boxes floating around there, so I just chose the ones that I liked the best and incorporated all of my favorite elements into this one box. I also fixed the "F" of "frog" because if you'll notice in the picture below, the "f" is extremely crooked in relation to the rest of the image, and the OCD side of me couldn't handle it, so I fixed it.
CROOKED F! Unfortunately I didn't notice it until after I had printed all of these off, so I endured the obnoxiousness of it and fixed it in the template I'm about to post. Now this template fits on one piece of 8.5x11" piece of paper so that you can print it on any standard printer, but that does mean that it's about half the size of the chocolate frogs you might get at tourist locations. The chocolate frog boxes you purchase are also glossy,versus the matte finish you get with the standard cardstock I used to print mine. I did use glossy photo paper for some of my other smaller items that I needed to print off, and that offered a better effect, so it just depends on how much funds you're wanting to invest in the project because obviously the photo paper is on the more expensive side. Anyway, enough babbling. Here is the final Chocolate Frog box image I created.
As for the chocolate frogs, I went shopping a couple days after Christmas and bought all the discounted Hershey's Chocolate Kisses at about a buck a bag and then simply melted them down and poured them into the frog mold found here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EBMUNU/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
This frog candy mold makes the perfect sized frogs for this size box, assuming you use a whole page to print it. Obviously melting Hershey's chocolate kisses isn't the best type of chocolate you can use for these, but I was making a lot of them so this was the easiest and most affordable option. After the frogs had been placed in the fridge and allowed to harden, we removed them from the molds and placed them in small clear candy bags that I found at Walmart in the wedding section. It's been a while since I purchased them but I want to say it was about 2 dollars for a package of 50. This isn't something you have to do necessarily, but I wanted to protect the inside of the boxes from chocolate mess, so I thought the bags were a good idea.
I hope this helps you in your task of making chocolate frogs and boxes. Let me know in the comments section if you have any questions, or visit my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/HarryPotterTheBoyWhoWillAlwaysLive
because I'm more likely to see something posted on FB!
THANKS FOR READING!
"When I'm 80 years old and sitting in my rocking chair, I'll be reading Harry Potter. And my family will say to me, ' After all this time?' And I will say, 'Always.' -- Alan Rickman
