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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!

Have you read?

Book Review: The Festival of Lights

As if Diwali weren’t colorful and fun enough, The Festival of Lights: A Lift-the-flap Diwali Celebration by Namita Moolani Mehra, illustrated by Darshika Varm, makes it even more fun to read about with flaps and things to lift and pull to see more information or details in the illustrations. 

The book is a story about a family getting ready for Diwali and what happens on the different days of the five-day celebration. There’s cleaning, shopping, crafting, food preparation and getting the home altar ready for the big day. 

It covers decorating the outside of the house with rangoli, diyas and lanterns, buying sweets to share with family and friends, the sights and scents of the mandir (home temple), getting dressed up in new fancy clothes, the story of Diwali and celebrations with relatives.  

Flaps (there are more than 140 in all) give you vocabulary words for different foods and definitions, as well as fun things like what’s inside the shopping basket or where the cat is hanging out. They also help illuminate the story of Diwali, which is the triumph of good over evil as Lord Ram defeated the demon Ravana to save his wife, Sita. 

This pretty and colorful book helps kids understand what Diwali is and how it is celebrated, regardless of whether they practice it at home. This would be a nice book to keep in a classroom (it’s rated for kids ages 3-7) or to have at home to teach kids about Diwali even if it’s not something you celebrate. Where I live there are a lot of people from India so we are probably exposed to Diwali more than some other regions of America, but it’s a nice holiday to know about wherever you live. 

Combine with the book Diwali and check out some fun lantern crafts and printables for kids to round out your experience. 

About the book: 24 pages, hardcover, published 2025 by Wide Eyed Editions. Suggested retail prices $22.99.