Still waiting on your train ticket to board the Hogwarts Express? Want to learn how to make an awesome Harry Potter themed snack? Look no further. This recipe is a fun play on the second task from the Goblet Fire, Black Lake Brownies. Harry Potter fans will delight in this post honoring all the fun ways you can celebrate the best food from Harry Potter!
If you have read my other Harry Potter posts then you know that I love Harry Potter food and Harry Potter themed snacks. I was inspired to create Harry Potter recipes after reading the books, watching the movies, and visiting the Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios. While at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, I was able to actually taste a lot of the Harry Potter treats that had been mentioned in the series, and it got me working and thinking, “how can I make easy Harry Potter snacks and Harry Potter food” easily accessible to those unable to visit Universal studios? Alas, my Harry Potter Themed snacks were born!
Some of my recipes were directly from the books such as treacle tart (treacle tart is said to be Harry’s favorite dessert), Liquid Luck, pumpkin juice, rock cakes, pumpkin pasties, chocolate frogs, butterbeer, you name it. However, some are more Harry Potter inspired. For our Harry Potter inspired food, I have created sorting hat cupcakes (which you can see the recipe for here) or this recipe, Black Lake Brownies! These are such a fun treat, and really delicious. You won’t need to force feed your kids a love potion to ensure that your kids will love this recipe!
FAQ
What are is a good Harry Potter snack or the best Harry Potter food?
I think the universal food that is sought out the most from the Harry Potter series is butterbeer. It is many peoples favorite Harry Potter snack, but, I think my favorite harry potter treat is pumpkin juice. However, it entirely depends on my mod or the day!
If you do wish to make butterbeer (you can find my recipe for it here), you can expand and make a whole slew of new and fun butterbeer based recipes. There is butterbeer ice cream, butterbeer cupcakes, butterbeer pots de creme, butterbeer popcorn, butterbeer fudge, butterbeer birthday cake (although, you may want to just go ahead and make Hagrid’s birthday cake for harry which is a delicious chocolate cake – found here).
If you want to really stay on theme and have a Harry Potter themed party or a Harry Potter movie night, and make things from the books then I suggest some of the following:
Sorting Hat cupcakes, everyone can get sorted into their own house which is super fun (especially if you are looking for party ideas).
Polyjuice Potion is another really fun recipe as it is such a book moment in the Harry Potter books.
Chocolate Frogs, you can also have fun little wizard cards to go with them if you are a crafty person!
I have not made them but acid pops could be really fun to make at home. Acid pops are sold at Honeydukes (which as told to us in the Harry Potter books is a sweets shop). Cauldron cakes would also be super fun for a harry potter movie night or party!
What do you need for this recipe?
Most gluten free brownie recipes end up being really good. This recipe is as if a blondie and a brownie got together made a dessert baby and put a tail on top. So, this is what you will need:
- 2 cups flour (gluten free or regular. This is a 1:1 recipe)
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups brown sugar (I used dark but you can use light)
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- 1.25 cups olive oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For the frosting:
- 8 oz cream cheese
- ½ cup butter (8 tablespoons)
- 2 cups powdered sugar
For the tails:
- 1 bag white chocolate melts
Special Equipment:
- One tail silicone mold (I bought mine here)
- A small paint brush
- Grey or Blue / Green food coloring
- Black Food Coloring
- Deep Blue Food Coloring
Gluten Free Brownie Recipe: Harry Potter Ed.- How do you make em?
First you are going to make your brownies:
- Mix together your dry ingredients in a bowl (whisk them together)
- Add your olive oil and vanilla and mix together with a wooden spoon.
- Add one egg and a time and make sure they are fully incorporated.
Baking it
- Take an 8×8 baking pan and grease it. Add parchment paper so you can remove them after it has baked.
- Set your oven to 350° and set aside until the oven is ready.
- Once it has hit 350F, place in the oven on the middle rack and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Once it has done baking, remove from oven and place a toothpick in the middle. If it comes out clean, it is done.
- Leave on the counter to cool
How to make your tails and icing
For your tails:
- Add your melts into a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds at a time. If you do not feel comfortable using a microwave, place in a double boiler until they are melted.
- Stir the melts until smooth
- fill the silicon mold with the chocolate and place in the fridge until they are hard.
- Once they are hard- remove from the fridge and allow them to sit for a few minutes. This will allow the chocolate to loosen a bit and you will be less likely to break any of the tails when you remove them from the mold.
- Once they are removed from the mold, take your paint brush and food coloring and paint them.
- Once they are painted, place them back in the fridge until ready to use.
Making your icing:
- Add your cream cheese and butter together in your mixer and mix until they are smooth. Add your powdered sugar ½ cup at a time until it is fully incorporated.
- Separate the icing into 2 parts; you will use black food coloring for the icing that will go directly on top and the other part will be blue for the swirl aka “splash” that the tail will go into.
Putting them all together
- Once your brownies have cooled, take the black icing and make swirls on top so that it almost looks like waves of water.
- Mark where you are going to cut and then put swirls on each of those squares.
- Remove your tails from the fridge and put one into each swirl.
- Cut the squares and then you are good to go!
Your Harry Potter Party is ready to roll with your Harry Potter themed snacks!
Harry Potter fans rejoice! We have you covered for some of the all time best Harry Potter recipes to celebrate. A bunch of these treats are available at the magical world of Harry Potter however, you don’t need to be at the magical world of Harry Potter to enjoy them. The best part is, these recipes are honestly super easy to make. I wanted to make easy Harry Potter recipes for all to enjoy and I hope you will find that when you make them!
Looking for other Harry Potter Recipe Ideas aka the best Harry Potter treats?
Harry Potter Birthday Cake (Hagrid’s Cake)
Pumpkin Pasties
Sorting Hat Cupcakes
Coconut “ice cream”
Polyjuice Potion
Philsopher’s Stones
Pumpkin Juice
Liquid Luck
Rock Cakes
Copycat Butterbeer Universal Studios Recipe
Treacle Tart
Black Lake Brownies
Ingredients
- 2 cups flour gluten free or regular. This is a 1:1 recipe
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups brown sugar I used dark but you can use light
- ¾ teaspoon baking powder
- 1.25 cups olive oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
For the frosting:
- 8 oz cream cheese
- ½ cup butter 8 tablespoons
- 2 cups powdered sugar
For the tails:
- 1 bag white chocolate melts
Special Equipment:
- One tail silicone mold I bought mine here
- A small paint brush
- Grey or Blue / Green food coloring
- Black Food Coloring
- Deep Blue Food Coloring
Instructions
First you are going to make your brownies:
- Mix together your dry ingredients in a bowl (whisk them together)
- Add your olive oil and vanilla and mix together with a wooden spoon.
- Add one egg and a time and make sure they are fully incorporated.
Baking it
- Take an 8x8 baking pan and grease it. Add parchment paper so you can remove them after it has baked.
- Set your oven to 350° and set aside until the oven is ready.
- Once it has hit 350F, place in the oven on the middle rack and bake for 30-35 minutes.
- Once it has done baking, remove from oven and place a toothpick in the middle. If it comes out clean, it is done.
- Leave on the counter to cool
For your tails:
- Add your melts into a bowl and microwave for 30 seconds at a time. If you do not feel comfortable using a microwave, place in a double boiler until they are melted.
- Stir the melts until smooth
- fill the silicon mold with the chocolate and place in the fridge until they are hard.
- Once they are hard- remove from the fridge and allow them to sit for a few minutes. This will allow the chocolate to loosen a bit and you will be less likely to break any of the tails when you remove them from the mold.
- Once they are removed from the mold, take your paint brush and food coloring and paint them.
- Once they are painted, place them back in the fridge until ready to use.
Making your icing:
- Add your cream cheese and butter together in your mixer and mix until they are smooth. Add your powdered sugar ½ cup at a time until it is fully incorporated.
- Separate the icing into 2 parts; you will use black food coloring for the icing that will go directly on top and the other part will be blue for the swirl aka "splash" that the tail will go into.
Putting it together:
- Once your brownies have cooled, take the black icing and make swirls on top so that it almost looks like waves of water.
- Mark where you are going to cut and then put swirls on each of those squares.
- Remove your tails from the fridge and put one into each swirl.
- Cut the squares and then you are good to go!
Dianna says
These look fishily delicious! well done!
siftrva says
This one tips the scales.