Butterbeer & Pumpkin Juice - The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Walk past Hagrid's hut

and

 join me in the Wizarding

World of Harry Potter

Where you can buy Rosmerta's famous Butterbeer

on the streets.

Or a glass of pumpkin juice, all made famous

by the Harry Potter books by J.K. Rowling.

Let's start with Butterbeer.

Butterbeer is a non-alcoholic drink served

in Hogsmeade.  You can buy it in two forms,

cold and "frozen" which refers to a slushy drink.

Butterbeer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter

had a very distinctive foam or head on it.  It

automatically gives one a white mustache just like

Hermione gets in the movie.  When you examine

it, it is sticky like marshmallow cream only thinner.

It is a cream soda base with hints of a buttered

rum.

I looked up some recipes on the internet and

none were quite right.

So here are the easy recipes I have come up with

using ingredients that are readily available.

Butterbeer Recipe

1/2 C. Torani's Caramel Flavoring 

1 tsp. butter flavoring

1 tsp. rum flavoring

1 liter Cream Soda

1/2 C. marshmallow cream

1/2 C. whipping cream

Place the marshmallow cream and cream in a small bowl

and microwave 20 seconds.  Stir until smooth.  

Mix the

 caramel syrup.  and the flavorings.  Pour

in the Cream Soda.

(You could use a caramel flavored coffee cream in place

of the Torani's if you can't find that.)

Pour into  mugs and then top with the a little of the

marshmallow cream foam.

The foam will float on the top and as it sits for

a minute, it starts to bubble.  This head or foam really

adds to the taste of the drink too.

I purchased the fun Hogwart's mugs at one of

the Universal Studios stores.

(This is the combined marshmallow cream and cream.)

The Frozen Butterbeer is just a slushy version

so I placed it in my ice cream maker until slushy

then topped it with the foam.

Pumpkin juice is a beverage often served

at Hogwart's Castle to the students.

 It can

also be found in Hogsmeade.

Pumpkin juice is an iced slightly orange colored drink

with a base of apple juice and hints of mulling (not muggle)

spices.

Pumpkin Juice

2 T. Stephens Gourmet Hot Cocoa Pumpkin Spice

powdered mix

4 T. warm water

4 C. apple juice

Mix the powdered mix and water together and

whisk until smooth.  Mix with apple juice.  This

was more milky than theirs so I poured it through

several layers of cheesecloth to remove the milk

solids.

Serve over ice.

Then while playing "mad scientist" trying to unearth

Rosmerta's Secret Recipes which she refused to

give out, we stumbled upon our new creation and

probably our favorite.

Pumpkinbeer

2 T. Stephen's Gourmet Hot Cocoa Pumpkin Spice Mix

4 T. warm water

4 C. Cream Soda

Mix the Pumpkin Spice Mix and the warm water. Pour

it into the Cream Soda.  (Now this combination reacts and

you get a lot of foam - that you don't want because you want

to add your own.  Just scoop it off.)

Top with the foam recipe above.

(Yes, it actually snows inside the castle, not plastic flakes

but real bits of ice that melt when they land on your skin!)

For more of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

at Universal Studios in Florida visit my

post on a trip to .Hogsmeade.

Click here for printable recipe.

This is my 100th post!  I am so pleased to be

having so much fun blogging and want to thank

all who have supported me in this.  I am within

3 people of reaching 500 followers.  I will be

holding a giveaway to celebrate both of these

in a future post (when I reach 500!)

I will be posting this on

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