Universal's Islands of Adventure · Hogsmeade — Islands of Adventure

Honeydukes

Hogsmeade's sweet shop, floor to ceiling in candy, with a Chocolate Frog that is mostly a collectible card in chocolate form.

  • ServiceSnack cart
  • Price$
  • CuisineSweets and confectionery
  • ReservationsNo reservations

The facts

Meals
Snacks
Typical cost
Chocolate Frogs around $17, cauldron cakes and pasties around $7, fudge sold by weight, as of July 2026.Verified July 2026
Mobile order
No
Dining plan
Not accepted
Alcohol
Not served
Air conditioned
Yes
Dietary
Vegetarian, Gluten-friendly

Last verified July 2026

What it is

Honeydukes is the sweet shop from the books rendered as a genuinely dense retail space - pink and lilac shelving to the ceiling, jars, barrels, wrapped confectionery in every direction, and a connected room containing Zonko's joke merchandise. It is a shop rather than a restaurant, and it is one of the three or four things in this park that guests queue to get inside.

The famous purchase is the Chocolate Frog, a large solid chocolate frog in an ornate box with a collectible wizard card inside. At around $17 it is expensive chocolate, and what you are actually buying is the box and the card, both of which are well made. The cauldron cakes, pumpkin pasties and fudge are the better food value.

The queue to enter is real in the middle of the day - Universal meters entry because the room is small - and it evaporates in the evening.

Our verdict

A genuinely well-built shop selling attractive, overpriced sweets. The Chocolate Frog is a souvenir rather than a snack, and the cauldron cakes and fudge are the things worth eating.

What to order

The dishes this kitchen is actually known for. Menus change seasonally, so treat this as what to look for rather than a guaranteed list.

  • Chocolate Frog
  • Cauldron Cake
  • Pumpkin Pasty
  • Exploding Bon Bons
  • Fudge by the slice

Tips for Honeydukes

  • Shop in the evening. There is a queue to get in the door between about 11 AM and 4 PM and no queue at all after dinner.
  • The Chocolate Frog is a card and a box with some chocolate attached. Buy it knowingly, and buy a cauldron cake if you want something to actually eat.
  • The fudge counter is the best-value sweet purchase in the shop and almost nobody looks at it.
  • Zonko's joke items share the building through a connecting doorway. Plenty of guests never notice the second room.
  • It is air-conditioned, which makes browsing it a legitimate heat break as well as a shopping trip.

Who it suits

Good for
Families · Toddlers · Picky Eaters · Quick Bite · Air Conditioned Break

Tracked items from Honeydukes

Prices we have checked ourselves, with the month we checked them. Mark anything here and it saves to your device.

Chocolate Frog

Honeydukes

$16.99

A large solid milk chocolate frog in an ornate pentagonal box, packaged with a collectible wizard card.

Our take: Overrated as chocolate and reasonable as a souvenir. You are paying seventeen dollars for a card and a box; buy it knowing that, and buy a cauldron cake if you want dessert.

Sweet Vegetarian Walkable

Cauldron Cake

Honeydukes

$6.99

A dense chocolate cake shaped like a cauldron, filled with chocolate mousse and finished with a fondant handle.

Our take: The best thing in Honeydukes to actually eat, and a third the price of the Chocolate Frog. Rich enough that one is plenty between two people.

Sweet Vegetarian Walkable

Pumpkin Pasty

Honeydukes

$6.99

A hand-sized pastry turnover filled with spiced pumpkin, sold from the counter at Honeydukes and from the Hogsmeade carts.

Our take: Closer to a pumpkin pie in a crust than anything savory, and better than it looks under the shop lights. A good portable option for eating in a queue.

Sweet Vegetarian Walkable

Exploding Bon Bons

Honeydukes

$14.99

Chocolate truffles containing popping candy, sold in a decorated box from the Honeydukes counter.

Our take: Fifteen dollars for popping candy in a truffle. The packaging is doing all the work here, and the fudge counter is better value in the same shop.

Sweet Vegetarian Walkable

Honeydukes Fudge

Honeydukes

$8.99

House-made fudge sold by the slice from a counter at the back of Honeydukes, in rotating flavors including chocolate, peanut butter and sea salt caramel.

Our take: The best-value sweet purchase in Honeydukes and the one almost nobody looks at. Ask for a sample first - the flavors vary more in quality than the display suggests.

Sweet VegetarianGluten-friendly Walkable

Honeydukes: common questions

How much is a Chocolate Frog?

Around $17 as of July 2026. It is a large solid milk chocolate frog in a decorated box with a collectible wizard card, and the card and the box are most of what you are paying for. As chocolate it is unremarkable.

Is there a queue to get into Honeydukes?

In the middle of the day, yes - Universal meters entry because the room is small and it backs up outside from late morning until mid-afternoon. After dinner you can generally walk straight in.

What is the best thing to buy at Honeydukes?

The fudge by weight is the best value and the cauldron cakes are the best thing to actually eat. The Chocolate Frog is the best souvenir. Exploding Bon Bons and the novelty items are priced for the packaging.