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Harry Potter-Inspired Frozen Butterbeer Recipe

Photo of Emily Walker Emily WalkerJuly 16, 2024
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Two glass mugs filled with frothy butterscotch-flavored beverages sit on a wooden board. The mugs are accompanied by two golden spoons and a red striped cloth napkin in the background, with a small jar of syrup visible behind the napkin.
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This Frozen Butterbeer Recipe is inspired by the ever-popular Harry Potter series. Harry and his friends would often walk to Hogsmeade to get these yummy drinks and now you can make your own! This recipe tastes just like the Frozen Butterbeer at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter.

Mug clinking other mug of Frozen Butterbeer.

Frozen Butterbeer

What makes this Magic Frozen Butterbeer recipe “MAGIC”? The whole recipe from start to finish, including freezing time, takes about 5 minutes total. It transforms from liquid to solid right before your eyes! Really! Even Harry Potter himself would be impressed. These taste exactly like the Frozen Butterbeers from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Try it! You will see!

Spoonful of Frozen Butterbeer.

What to Drink While Watching Harry Potter

We originally made these to celebrate the movie from the world of Harry Potter: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Making up some of these yummy frozen butterbeer drinks was the perfect way to celebrate and get us ready for the show.

We also make frozen butterbeer whenever we do a Harry Potter binge. No Harry Potter marathon would be complete without some tasty treats from the movies/books. It makes the entire thing feel more festive.

Ingredients to make Frozen Butterbeer.
Two glass mugs filled with frothy butterscotch-flavored beverages sit on a wooden board. The mugs are accompanied by two golden spoons and a red striped cloth napkin in the background, with a small jar of syrup visible behind the napkin.

Frozen Butterbeer Recipe from Harry Potter

Even Harry Potter himself would be impressed. These taste exactly like the Frozen Butterbeers from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Try it! You will see!
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Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings: 6
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: English
Ingredients Equipment Method

Ingredients
  

For each serving:
  • 6 cups Ice cubes (enough to fill a gallon-sized freezer bag about half way)
  • 1 tbsp Kosher salt (Ice cream salt or table salt will work too)
  • 1 cup cream soda
  • 1 tsp butterscotch ice cream topping
For the Cream Topping:
  • 1 cup heavy cream or whipping cream
  • 1/4 cup butterscotch topping

Equipment

  • Hand Mixer

Method
 

  1. Step 1: Place ice cubes and salt in a gallon-sized Ziploc bag.
    A clear glass bowl filled with ice cubes in a resealable plastic bag sits on a wooden surface. Part of a red and white striped cloth is visible in the top left corner, and a pink container with red liquid is partially visible on the right.
For the Slush:
  1. Step 1: Place cream soda and butterscotch in a smaller quart-sized Ziploc bag, press out all the air and seal tightly. Mix around until the butterscotch is mixed in with the cream soda.
    A sealed Ziploc bag filled with a brownish liquid, likely homemade broth or stock, sits on a wooden surface. There are bubbles visible within the liquid, and a patterned cloth is partially visible in the upper left corner of the image.
  2. Step 2: Place bag of soda IN the bag of ice and seal.
    A resealable plastic bag partially filled with ice cubes is placed on a wooden cutting board. A red and white striped cloth is seen in the top left corner of the image, and a marble countertop is visible at the bottom edge.
  3. Step 3: Shake for about 3-5 minutes or until the soda is nice and slushy- if it gets too cold, wrap a dish cloth around it and continue shaking.
    A hand holding a sealed plastic bag filled with a light brown liquid over another plastic bag. The background features a red and white striped cloth. The person has lavender-colored nail polish.
  4. Step 4: Pour slush into a cup and top with butterscotch cream topping (below).
    Two frothy beverages served in glass mugs are placed on a wooden surface. A red and white striped cloth is in the background, next to a honey bottle and two golden spoons on the side. The mugs contain an orange-tinted drink topped with a white, foamy layer.
For the Cream Topping:
  1. Step 1: Beat the cream and butterscotch with a mixer on high speed until stiff peaks form.
    A glass bowl filled with whipped, creamy dip sits on a wooden counter. Beside it, a white and red striped cloth partially covers a bottle of caramel sundae syrup. A hand mixer with some of the creamy mixture on its beaters is seen on the right.

What Does Frozen Butterbeer Taste Like?

If you have never had Butterbeer, it tastes like a yummy butterscotch soda with a sweet cream topping. Whenever I read about it in the Harry Potter series it sounded so good! Tasting it in real life was even better than I had imagined. I was already a big butterscotch fan so I knew I would be in love, but seriously, I could drink one of these every day.

Butterbeer, pumpkin juice, and frozen butterbeer at Wizarding World of Harry Potter Food

We first tried Frozen Butterbeer on our visit to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in the Universal Studios theme park in Hollywood. You can read more about our visit and see the pictures we took around the park on our traditional Butterbeer post.

We had so much fun trying all kinds of food from the books, but the drinks were definitely the highlight. We could not decide which was our favorite, regular Butterbeer, Frozen Butterbeer, or Pumpkin Juice. So we decided we would just have to create recipes for all three, that way we can enjoy them anytime we want!

Two tall mugs of Frozen Butterbeer.

More Recipes from the Harry Potter books

Love Harry Potter? You will want to try these three enchanting recipes from the Harry Potter series: Butterbeer, Pumpkin Juice, and Pumpkin Pasties. Bring the magic of Hogwarts right into your own kitchen and you will see why Harry and his friends loved these tasty treats.

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Three glasses of bright green beverage served with ice cubes, lemon slices on the rim, red cherries, and striped red and white paper straws. In the background, there's a large pitcher filled with the same green drink, ice, and a lemon slice on the rim.
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This post originally appeared on Favorite Family Recipes.

Photo of Emily Walker Emily WalkerJuly 16, 2024
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