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Bring These Flaming Phoenix Cocktails To Your Next Harry Potter-Themed Party

The following recipe and excerpt for Flaming Phoenix Cocktails are from “HARRY POTTER AND FANTASTIC BEASTS: Official Wizarding World Cookbook: Spellbinding Meals From New York to Hogwarts and Beyond!” by Jody Revenson and Sarah Walker Caron. It’s available for purchase on Amazon.

The phoenix bird is continually reborn. At the end of each life cycle, it erupts into flames and then rises up from the ashes of that fire. Albus Dumbledore has a phoenix named Fawkes, first seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. It was a given that Fawkes would be the color of fire, with his top mainly burnt oranges and dark reds. At his last stage of life, he has the coloring of a burned-out match, with the last embers of brilliance around his eyes. Phoenixes are tied to the Dumbledore family; once Credence joins Gellert Grindelwald in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the Dark wizard shows the young man a phoenix chick: He tosses it into the air, where it grows to full size and lights on fire, reborn. This confirms to Credence that he is actually a Dumbledore. This fiery drink will bring every party or occasion to life over and over again.

Flaming Phoenix Cocktails

Difficulty:BeginnerPrep time: 10 minutesTotal time: 10 minutesServings:4 servings

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Cut 1/2 lime into 4 thin slices, for garnish, and set aside. Cut the remaining half of the lime into wedges, and run them around the rim of each glass. Pour the sugar onto a shallow plate, and twist the rim of each glass in the sugar until it is well coated.
  2. In a medium pitcher, add the triple sec, grenadine, lime juice, vanilla syrup, and rum. Stir, and divide the liquid among the glasses. Top each with a lime slice.

Notes

  • Specialty Tools: Coupe glasses
Keywords:< 20 Minutes, Booze, Drinks, Pop Culture
Giselle Medina is the associate editor for Spoon University where she helps oversee food coverage of news, pop culture, trends, and celebrities.

In her free time, Giselle is an avid TV binge-watcher and will never say no to a Real Housewives franchise, but also makes the best chocolate chip muffins (at least that's what her inner circle says). She has a huge sweet tooth and is always on the hunt for a good chocolate chip cookie. Shoot her an email at gisellemedina@hercampus.com.