Wouldn't you like to try butterbeer like it was meant to be made? An alcoholic butterbeer recipe that matches the one in the Harry Potter books? Butterbeer with a little alcohol content and warm? Well, that's exactly what I wanted for a New Year's Eve party that I attended over the holidays. So I decided to make my own alcoholic butterbeer recipe and I think my "adult" … [Read more...]
Butterbeer Recipe Include Dairy or Alcohol?
With a name like "Butterbeer," many folks worry that the popular drink at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter park may contain alcohol and those with a lack of tolerance for lactose show concern for the "butter" part. I've had many parents and some teetotaling friends express their worry that the butterbeer recipe includes alcohol. Although a frosty beverage, it's … [Read more...]
Harry Potter Cookbook Without a Butterbeer Recipe?
Stumbling my way through Amazon, recently, I found what I'd hoped was going to be a great find; the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook!! I got so excited!! Treacle tarts, Kreacher's French Onion Soup, Mrs. Weasley's Molly's Meat Pies, Pumpkin Pasties.....but what's this? No Butterbeer recipe? How could this be? Now, in all fairness, the book has a lot of great Harry … [Read more...]
Butterbeer Nutritional Information
Last week, we posted our favorite attempts at a butterbeer recipe. Late last week, we learned the the folks at WalletPop sent off a sample of the Harry Potter park recipe to a lab for testing and they reported their results! Now, these results report only on the nutritional content of the frosty beverage, not exact ingredients or anything. However, as I stand in the … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Juice Recipes from Harry Potter Theme Park at Universal
I was planning to give out my top 5 pumpkin juice recipes from the Harry Potter theme park at Universal, similar to our Harry Potter butterbeer recipe post. Although there's a ton of pumpkin juice recipes available, I only found a couple that really seem to match the Wizarding World of Harry Potter version. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter version is sweet, … [Read more...]