It's time to visit a real magical fairy tale using improvised and delicious ingredients that are undoubtedly found in every home for the realization of the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. And if you can’t find it, you can drop by the nearest supermarket or order it in an online store, because they are all simple and understandable, the main thing is to stock up on magical knowledge that you will find in our Harry Potter Blog and recipes from the magical universe of JK Rowling.

We have prepared for you the Top most desirable and unusual recipes that you can repeat yourself from the Harry Potter books.

1. Recipe number 1. Hagrid's first, bright, layered, chocolate cake for Harry Potter's eleventh birthday.

It is difficult to imagine a more heartless woman than the one who has never baked or even bought a birthday cake for her orphaned nephew. But that's exactly what happened to Harry Potter, who didn't get his first birthday cake until his eleventh birthday thanks to Hagrid (see Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 4).

Ingredients for chocolate cake (biscuit):

• ¾ cup boiling water

• ½ cup unsweetened cocoa powder

• 1 tsp. instant coffee

• 1 cup all-purpose flour

• 1 tsp. baking powder for dough

• ¼ tsp. salt

• 1 cup of sugar

• 1 stick (8 tbsp) butter, room temperature

• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

Chocolate glaze:

• 220 g grated dark chocolate

• ¾ cup heavy cream

• ¼ stick (2 tbsp) butter

• ¼ cup corn syrup

Icing:

• 1 bar (8 tablespoons) butter

• 1 cup of powdered sugar

• 1 tbsp. l. heavy cream

• 1 tsp. vanilla extract

• ½ part chocolate icing (see recipe above)

Green glaze:

• 1 cup of powdered sugar

• Water for dilution of pasta

• Green food coloring

Let's move on to the exciting preparation of Hagrid's cake for Harry's birthday.

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Butter and flour two 16 cm round baking dishes and line the bottom with baking paper.

2. Combine hot water, cocoa powder and instant coffee in a measuring cup or small bowl and beat until smooth, set aside. In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt, set aside.

3. In a large bowl, beat the butter, granulated sugar and brown sugar with a mixer until fluffy, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally, about 5 minutes. Beat in the eggs one at a time, mixing until smooth. Add vanilla extract and mix thoroughly. Pour in the hot coffee mixture and stir again. Then add flour mixture and beat on the slowest speed until smooth. Finish the process by picking up the rest of the dough with a silicone spatula from the bottom and rolling up the dough. Divide the dough in half between the two pans and bake for 20 minutes, until the dough sets and just a few crumbs remain on a toothpick you stick in the center. Be careful because these pies dry out easily in the oven. Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes, then invert onto a wire rack and let cool completely.

4. To make chocolate frosting, combine chocolate, heavy cream, butter, and corn syrup in a bowl and microwave for 1-2 minutes. Beat until smooth. Refrigerate the icing, let it thicken slightly, but do not let it set completely.

5. To make the icing, combine the butter, icing sugar, heavy cream and vanilla in a bowl and beat until fluffy, moving around the sides of the bowl, for 7 minutes. Add half of the chilled chocolate icing and beat until smooth. If the icing is too soft, refrigerate it for 10 minutes and beat again. Refrigerate for another 10 minutes and whisk again if necessary.

6. To make the green frosting, add 1 tablespoon of water to the powdered sugar and mix until you get a thick paste. Add food coloring to give desired shade of green.

7. To assemble the cake, place one cake layer on a cardboard cake stand, place ¾ cup of icing sugar on the surface of the cake and smooth. Lay out the second cake, spread the rest of the icing on top of it and sprinkle on the sides. Pour the rest of the chocolate icing on top, allowing it to drip unevenly down the sides (if the icing is too set, reheat in the microwave and stir thoroughly. You may need to wait a little longer for the icing to cool slightly). If you still have icing left over, use it to draw a decorative border along the bottom of the cake. Scoop the green frosting into a round-tipped piping bag and write "Happy Birthday Harry" on top of the cake. The cake will look like homemade. That's how it should be, because that's how Hagrid made him.

Confectioners life hack: Instead of a pastry bag, you can use a plastic bag. Make a small hole in the corner of the bag, fill with green icing and squeeze it through the hole.

 

2. Recipe #2: Hogsmeade Butterbeer - A version as close to the original as possible

 

Not everyone manages to visit America (USA) in the famous The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal park, and even more so to visit the magical world of Harry Potter, but you want to try that very butterbeer (butterbeer)! I want it, so I can! That's why we've prepared the closest recipe to the original for a real butterbeer (non-alcoholic flax drink) that will take you to the walls of Hogwarts or to the spacious streets with shops in Hawksmead and Madame Rosemerta's legendary Three Broomsticks pub.

And again, the ingredients are quite easy to find in an online store or in grocery supermarkets in Minsk :)

Ingredients:

Vanilla-flavoured carbonated drink (creb brulee or plain lemonade) - 1 l
Unsalted butter - 3 tbsp. l.
Brown sugar - 3 tbsp. l.
Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
Nutmeg - ⅛ tsp
Ground cloves - ¼ tsp
Creamy ice cream with vanilla flavor - 1 kg
Preparation: The main idea of ​​this recipe is to combine ice cream, butter and spices into a homogeneous mass. To do this, the ice cream should be slightly melted, but still retained its shape, and the butter should be at room temperature, pre-whipped. Combine everything together, add spices, mix and refrigerate. Put a scoop of ice cream at the bottom of cold glasses, top up with a drink. It will be cool if you have a blender, then Harry's Butterbeer will be the most whipped and airy and you will definitely get those same mustaches :)

 

3, Harry Potter beans (Bertie Bots) sweets with different flavors

Bertie Botts (candy) is the most popular sweet in the wizarding world. Outwardly similar to ordinary dragees, they were created by confectioner Bertie Bottom by accident. One of his candies tasted like dirty socks, after which he decided to make sweets with a wide range of flavors: from quite conventional (like chocolate and marmalade) to the wildest (with the taste of earwax and snot), and you never know which one is right for you. get caught. Not so long ago, a fairly accurate analogue of Bertie Botts began to be sold in Russia - no magic, just dragees with ordinary and nasty tastes (earthworms, soap, rotten eggs, etc.). True, the box indicates which color corresponds to the taste, so you can not be afraid of what happened to Dumbledore: “Once in my childhood I was unlucky with one of these - it tasted like vomiting, and since then, I’m afraid, I’ve lost to them interest…"

Great news for you, you can buy the same sweets with delivery in Minsk, Grodno, Gomel, Brest, Mogilev, Vitebsk from our Bertie Botts sweets store.