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Harry Potter Butterbeer Cupcakes

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These Harry Potter butterbeer cupcakes are perfect for your Harry Potter Hogwarts themed party. These cupcakes are so easy to make and you can pickup the plastic harry potter glasses here to go with them. These cupcakes are made using a packet cake mix but you can swap it out for your own favorite yellow cake recipe if you wish to make it from scratch.

The cupcake toppers, the glasses, are what makes these cupcakes stand out from all the rest of the Harry Potter party food ideas. You could package up these cupcakes and give them out as a party favor too.Try adding some DIY wands to the top of the cupcakes for an alternating finish.

Looking for more Harry Potter party ideas? Check these DIY ideas out.  Check out the Harry Potter cook book too.

How to make Butterbeer cupcakes

Makes 18 cupcakes

Butterbeer cupcakes ingredients:

1 box of Betty Crocker yellow cake mix
3 large eggs
1/2 C canola oil
1/2 C IBC cream soda
1/4 C light brown sugar, packed
1 3.4 oz package of instant butterscotch pudding mix
gold foil cupcake liners

Butterbeer Frosting:

1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
2 tbsp butterscotch extract
1 tsp butter extract
1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/4 C light brown sugar, packed
4 C powdered sugar
1/4 C heavy whipping cream
1 bag of caramel popcorn for yourself and topping on the cupcakes
1 butterscotch or caramel sauce for drizzle on the cupcakes
1 piping bag, fitted with a large star tip

Directions to make the cupcakes:

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line cupcake pan with the cupcake liners.

Using a standing mixer, mix together until combined the cake mix, eggs, oil, cream soda, vanilla, brown sugar, and pudding mix.

Scoop cupcake batter into the cupcake liners and fill about 3/4 full.

Bake in the oven for 18 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Once baked, place onto the counter and allow to cool completely.

Frosting Directions:

Using the standing mixer, cream together until fluffy and combined the butter, brown sugar, butterscotch, butter, and vanilla extract.

Gradually add in the powdered sugar making sure to scrape from the sides of the bowl.

Add the heavy cream and continue to mix until combined, smooth and thick, making sure to scrape down the sides of the bowl.

Once frosting is made, scoop into the piping bag.

Frost cooled cupcakes.

Drizzle sauce of your choice and toss on some caramel popcorn.

Enjoy while watching your favorite Harry Potter film!

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When apples are in season or at back to school time are great times to learn with apples. Whether you use real apples or just apple shapes, it adds a sweet dimension to your lessons. 

Reading and Writing with Apples

Because it’s the beginning of the school year, too, there are lots of apple crafts having to do with name recognition for the little kids. You can just take foam apple shapes and write letters or the children’s names on the apples, or make an apple tree name craft like this one from Simple Everyday Mom. The post includes a tree template and apple shapes to make the craft. 

Or practice individual letter recognition with this apple find the letter activity from PBS. You can also write letters on a tree shape and use paint or do a dot markers to cover the letters as you recognize them like in this idea from Growing Book by Book. The ABC apple tree from Stir the Wonder is another good one for recognizing individual letters.

Only Passionate Curiosity has a (paid) really cute read and writing mini book about apples, and DLTK has two printable mini books, one easier and one more challenging, about planting a seed and waiting for it to grow apples. Learn colors as you read the mini book I See Apples from Fun-A-Day.

And Look We’re Learning has cute printable apple shapes with common CVC words on them that you can play with in lots of different ways.

Apple Math

Fun-A-Day has a printable counting book featuring apples, so you can get a little math and literacy in at once. This one has the child add the apples, or you can use their 10 red apples book that already has the apples in the tree.

Natural Beach Living has printable counting apple cards as well as apple count and clip cards you can use for practicing one to one correspondence (you can also use beads or other manipulatives instead of clips if you want).

Use paper plate apples (and a real apple) to explain fractions to kids with this idea from Crafty Kids at Home.

Learn to count to ten and get some fine motor skill practice along the way with the golf tee ten frame from Fantastic Fun and Learning.

Apple Science 

Learn about the life cycle of the apple and much more with this set of (paid) printables from Simple Everyday Mom.

Creative Family Fun has a great set of apple science experiments. Make an apple volcano, try different ways to preserve apples, make apple boats and more. And of course you’ll want to have an apple taste test or explore what happens when you add heat to apples (apple pie or apple sauce!).

And check out this great apple investigation activity for little kids from Early Learning Ideas, which shows kids lots of different ways to measure and classify real apples based on their color, weight, size and more. (Includes paid resources)

More Apple Learning

Get a great apple unit study for preschoolers and kindergarten from Real Life at Home. Every Star is Different has a Montessori-inspired preschool apple unit with free printables (hers as well as links to others). 

You can find more unit studies and activity ideas from Natural Beach Living and How Wee Learn.

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