Harry Potter Butterbeer Float

Butterbeer Float (for one person)
Ingredients

• Cream Soda (preferably A&W, but you can use any brand), chilled
• Butterscotch ice cream topping (or homemade butterscotch sauce)
• 1 and 1/4 teaspoon Vanilla Butter & Nut flavor (this is truly one of my favorite flavors I use for baking! SO good!) OR 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla and 1/2 a teaspoon imitation butter flavor
• Vanilla Ice Cream (if you want, add some butterscotch ice cream too!)

Directions

1. Put a scoop of ice cream into your mug, and add butterscotch sauce.
2. In another cup, mix cream soda with Vanilla Butter & Nut flavor (or vanilla flavor + butter flavor).
3. Slowly pour cream soda mixture to the mug containing the ice cream.
4. If desired, put more butterscotch sauce on top of your drink.
5. Enjoy!

Harry Potter Butterbeer Cookies

MJ made these last week and they were pretty delicious...

• 3 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup light brown sugar (packed)
• 2 sticks butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp butter flavoring
• 3/4 tsp pure vanilla extract

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Whisk the flour, baking powder, set aside.
3. Cream the sugar and butter. Add the egg, butter flavoring, and vanilla; mix until well-blended.
4. Gradually add the flour mixture and beat just until combined, scraping down the bowl, especially the bottom. (The dough will be quite thick…you may need to knead in stray bits of flour from the bottom of the bowl by hand.)
5. Roll on a floured surface to about 1/4″ and cut into shapes. Place on parchment lined baking sheets and bake for 9-12 minutes, depending on the size of your cutter. Let sit a few minutes on the sheet, then transfer to a cooling rack.

(or just drop that dough lazily like we did!)

Butterbeer Glaze

• 2/3 cup butterscotch chips
• 1/8 cup evaporated milk
• 1 TBSP light corn syrup
• pinch coarse salt

1. Place all of the ingredients in a glass or metal bowl and heat over a pot of simmering water (or a double boiler).  Stir occasionally, until melted and smooth.
2.  Put the cooled cookies on a wire rack on a baking sheet.  Pour the glaze over the cookies and spread with an offset spatula.

Or do what we did and just throw all that in the microwave and let it melt!  That worked fine too.