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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Butterbeer

9:00 AM

I've mentioned before that one of the things that I miss most about Kevin is cooking with him. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed being in the kitchen with him and I was even more shocked that he wanted to be cooking with me in the first place.

He even brought his own recipe and it was one of my favorites of his visit.

Butterbeer is something that I've wanted to try since it was first mentioned in Harry Potter. I've wondered how it would taste and wished that it actually existed somewhere.

Boyfriend, who is also a Harry Potter fan, found a recipe online that was duplicating the flavor of Butterbeer at the Harry Potter theme park. And we decided to try it.

I definitely think you should check out Kevin's post about making Butterbeer, because he uses pictures of the steps and I forgot to document that.

Here's what you need!

1 cup of brown sugar

2 tablespoons of water

2 tablespoons of butter

1/2 teaspoons of cider vinegar

1/2 cup of heavy cream

1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

1/8 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice

Four 12-ounce bottles of cream soda

Instructions!

Mix the brown sugar and water in a bowl and bring to a boil. Use a candy thermometer to judge when it is 240 degrees.

Next, add the butter, cider vinegar and heavy cream and mix. Pour the mixture into a glass bowl and let it cool down. Add the vanilla extract and the pumpkin pie spice. (We added a bit more cause it's so tasty!)

Put it in the fridge and let it cool. (It will stiffen a little bit, but as long as it moves and is stirable you're okay.)

Put 1/4 cup of the mixture into four tall glasses. Add 1/4 cup of the cream soda and stir it up and then fill the glass with the rest of the cream soda. Watch out! It's very foamy!