Harry Potter's Birthday

Hello all!
As many of you might already know, yesterday was Harry Potter's birthday! My first idea was to utilize my season pass to Islands of Adventure and celebrate at Harry Potter World itself. However, my husband worked a long hot day at his mostly-outdoor job and wasn't feeling more sweating, despite my argument that HP world has snow. so I decided to get creative. How so? Harry Potter dinner!

Step 1:
Turkey legs!
Turkey legs are a staple at Three Broom Sticks, the restaurant in Harry Potter World. The HP world restaurant is by far one of the best in all of the universal parks. Their food is always consistently yummy, the environment in which you eat is fantastic to the point of feeling as though you really are in Hogsmeade, and, of course, you can have a delicious butterbeer with your meal! The recipe I used was found for me by a friend, and you can find it here. (It's YUM and healthly!)

Step 2: 
BUTTERBEER! Yep. That's what I said. Butterbeer.
For a long while I have been bummed out that butter beer isn't for sale anywhere outside of HP World. Being as I have had a season pass since HP World opened, I haven't missed out on it too much. Once you taste it however, you want it often. I googled and googled butterbeer recipes and frankly they were all WAY too complicated, and had very mixed reviews. I knew I would be overly critical since I am an experienced butterbeer drinker, and nearly gave up. I then encountered a blog known as Bakingdom. The creator of the blog has invented her own butterbeer recipe and it wasn't anywhere near as complicated as all the others I had seen. I figured it was worth a try and I have to tell you...
It was SPOT ON. I can hardly tell the difference between the butterbeer I had at HP world and the batch I had made. I encourage you to try it. Here is the recipe.

Step 3:
Honeydukes themed cupcakes!
What's a birthday without some kind of cake?
Honeydukes signature colors are pink and green. I intended to print the honeydukes logo and attach it to toothpicks as a sort of sign sticking up from the cupcakes. However, I did not know that my printer was out of colored ink, so I basically just made pink cupcakes.
But they were delish!

It's so fun to bring fictional stories into your home in ways such as these, and I greatly encourage it. I hope you'll have your own Harry Potter dinner!  

The Finished Product: