Name: Hot Vegan Butterbeer
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 4 cups cream soda; 1/3 cup raw cashews; 2 Tbsp vegan butter; 2-3 butterscotch candies*; 2-4 oz whiskey (optional); Vegan whipped cream; Crushed butterscotch candies; Coconut sugar

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This easy vegan butterbeer recipe is the perfect hot and cozy drink for winter nights and can also be served over ice in the summer! A dairy free version of the drink made famous in the Harry Potter series, our butterbeer recipe is easy to make with or without alcohol. It will transport you to the Three Broomsticks with Harry, Ron, and Hermione!

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Calling all Potterheads and Dumbledorks: We’re making hot vegan butterbeer!

For those of you muggles (non-magic persons) out there, butterbeer is the preferred drink of house elves, students visiting Hogsmeade, and Hogwarts professors alike.

It’s a drink most often served warm with a slight alcoholic content that tastes like creamy, hot, liquid butterscotch filling the drinker with love and happiness. (IYKNK)

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Overhead shot of all the ingredients you need to make dairy free butterbeer: cream soda, vegan butter, cashews, butterscotch candies.

Ingredients in Vegan Butterbeer

You only need 5 ingredients to make this boozy dairy free butterbeer recipe! (+ vegan whipped cream for topping!)

Cream soda
Raw cashews
Vegan butter
Butterscotch candies – Be sure to check the ingredients on your butterscotch hard candies, but many are “accidentally” vegan. Butterscotch Dum Dums work too!
Whiskey (optional)

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How to Make Dairy Free Hot Butterbeer

The method may seem a little weird, but trust us when we say this is the BEST vegan butterbeer you’ll ever taste!

Step 1: Simmer.

Two side by side photos showing the first two steps of making vegan butterbeer: Simmer cashews in cream soda. Then, stir in the vegan butter and butterscotch candies.

First, the cream soda. Pour a liter of that stuff into a pot with some cashews and bring it to a boil. Boiling the cashews with the soda will soften them up, so we don’t have to spend hours soaking them. Make sure you simmer this until there are no more bubbles in your cream soda!

Then, add some vegan butter and a few butterscotch hard candies and stir until they’re melted.

Step 2: Blend.

Two side by side photos. They are both overhead shots of a Vitamix blender - one before blending the ingredients to make vegan butterbeer and the other after blending.

Finally, blend the whole thing up in your Vitamix or other high-powered blender and pour it into a mug with an optional, but encouraged shot of whiskey.

And bing, bang, boom! You’ve apparated to the Three Broomsticks for a mug with Harry, Ron, and Hermione.

TIP: It is important to use a blender that is both heat safe AND high-powered for this recipe. Stay away from blenders that don’t have an opening for the steam to escape (like those single serving cups that you turn upside down).

How to Serve Homemade Vegan Butterbeer

Get 4 10-oz mugs ready and fill each with 1/2 – 1 oz whiskey (optional). Split the butterbeer between the four mugs and top with vegan whipped cream, crushed butterscotch candies, and coconut sugar.

You should totally make this vegan butterbeer for yourself and allll the Dumbledorks in your life! And maybe you should drink it whilst watching a Harry Potter movie. Or better yet, reading one of the books.

However you drink it, let us know! Rate the recipe and leave a comment below or tag us in your photos on Instagram. If you’re not already hanging out with us over there, we’re @theplantpowercouple, with the “the”. Cheers!

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Yield: 4 (8-oz) mugs

Hot Vegan Butterbeer

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 20 minutes

Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

4 cups cream soda
1/3 cup raw cashews
2 Tbsp vegan butter
2-3 butterscotch candies*
2-4 oz whiskey (optional)

For serving:

Vegan whipped cream
Crushed butterscotch candies
Coconut sugar

Instructions

Put the cream soda and cashews in a large pot. Cover and bring to a full boil.
When boiling, remove the lid and add the vegan butter and butterscotch candies. Stir continuously until both the butter and candies are melted, about 5 minutes. Turn the heat to low and let the mixture cook for another 5-10 minutes uncovered, stirring occasionally. This part is important, as you want to be sure you cook the carbonation out of the cream soda before you add it to the blender.
Remove the pot from heat, pour this mixture into your Vitamix or other high-powered and heat-safe blender and blend on high for about two minutes. Remove the cap and let it sit for 5 minutes before replacing the cap and blending on high another minute.
To serve: Get 4 10-oz mugs ready and fill each with 1/2 - 1 oz whiskey (optional). Split the butterbeer between the four mugs and top with vegan whipped cream, crushed butterscotch candies, and coconut sugar. Enjoy!