Make Your Own Butterbeer

As you all know, I love love love Harry Potter!!!  Did you all see the movie?!!?  If you haven’t, go see it!! Right now!!!  It is ridiculously good.  Mak and I went to see the moment we returned from Minnesota.  We left the airport, drove straight to Hot Topic to find new Harry Potter shirts, grabbed some Chick-fil-a and went straight to the movie.  Let me just tell you, the movie was amazing!!!!  I really don’t know which is my favorite.  However, I will say from reading the seventh book, I did not remember anything.  It was definitely like I had never read the book.  I cried twice in the movie because it was sad obviously and really it is the end of my favorite series!!!!  No more Ron, Harry and of course Hermionie.

Nevertheless, I wanted to continue my Harry obsession and make Butterbeer.  We had it at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter as I have said and it was amazing.  So tonight while babysitting, I tried it out on the kids.  Some liked it, some didn’t.  Me, well. . . I thought it was bloody brilliant (little bit of Ron coming out while writing this)!

Here you can find the recipe and posted below.

Ingredients:

1 cup brown sugar

2 tbsp water

6 tbsp butter

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 tsp cider vinegar

3/4 cup heavy cream

1/2 tsp rum extract

4 – 12oz bottles/cans cream soda

In a medium sauce pan, combine brown sugar and water.  Bring the mixture to a boil and cook until 240 degrees using a candy thermometer, like below.

Take the sauce pan off the stove and add in your butter, salt, vinegar, and 1/4 cup of heavy cream.  Set aside to cool.

Once the mixture has cooled, stir in your rum extract.

In your medium mixing bowl, combine 2 tbsp of your brown sugar mixture and a 1/2 c up of heavy cream.  Use your mixer to beat it until it become thick, do not whip it completely.  If you do mix too long, like me of course, you will have a separation of liquids and will have to start all over again.  It is about 2 minutes of whisking.

Now you are ready to serve.  Divide the brown sugar mixture into 4 glasses.  This will be about 1/4 cup or so.  Then add cream soda and stir.  I added enough cream soda to fill the top of the glass.  After, you then spoon on a bit of the whipped topping and voila you have Butterbeer.  Now go enjoy some!!!

And my favorite kiddos trying out the creation!!!  Have a magical wizarding Thursday!!