This delicious and tasty pumpkin juice recipe was inspired by the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. This pumpkin juice recipe is a healthy copycat version that is tangy, richly sweet with a hint of spice. Pumpkin juice is a delicious drink and magical treat created from simple ingredients that is perfect for your next Harry Potter movies marathon.

Harry Potter Pumpkin Juice Recipe

This pumpkin juice recipe simmers spices, fresh ginger, and vanilla bean – with apple juice to infuse it. Then it’s blended with soaked dried apricots, pumpkin purée, and a little nutmeg. This juice recipe for kids is sweetened only with dried apricots! That natural source of sweetness really makes this healthy vegan pumpkin juice a hit! 

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This vegan Harry Potter pumpkin juice recipe is gluten-free, soy-free, egg-free, dairy-free, nut-free, and refined sugar-free!

Ingredients Needed for Pumpkin Juice

• 10 dried apricots
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 cups apple juice
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 7 whole allspice berries
• 2 (2-inch) pieces of thinly sliced ginger
• 1/2 vanilla bean, split (or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract)
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions to Make Pumpkin Juice Recipe

Step 1

Soak the apricots in the water for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge.

Step 2

1. Add the apple juice, cinnamon stick, allspice, ginger and vanilla bean to a saucepan.
2. Bring almost to boil, then turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.
3. Take off heat and let it cool a bit.

Step 3

Add the apricots and the soaking water to a blender and blend until smooth.

Step 4

Add the pumpkin purée and nutmeg and blend again.

Step 5

Strain the apple juice mixture into the blender to make sure only the liquid comes through.

Blend until smooth.

Step 6

Put a fine mesh strainer over a pitcher and strain the pulp so that only the thick juice drips into the pitcher.

Sprinkle with ground nutmeg before serving.

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Recipe by Kathy Hester from The Ghoulish Gourmet: A Bewitching Collection of Vegan Halloween Recipes copyright 2016 printed with permission as a healthy Halloween recipe idea.

Harry Potter's Pumpkin Juice - the Healthy Halloween Treat

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Ingredients

• 10 dried apricots
• 1 1/2 cups water
• 2 cups apple juice
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 7 whole allspice berries
• 2 (2-inch) pieces of thinly sliced ginger
• 1/2 vanilla bean, split (or 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract)
• 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Instructions

1. Soak the apricots in the water for at least 4 hours or overnight in the fridge.

2. Add the apple juice, cinnamon stick, allspice, ginger and vanilla bean to a saucepan.

3. Bring almost to boil, then turn heat to low and simmer for 10 minutes.

4. Take off heat and let it cool a bit.

5. Add the apricots and the soaking water to a blender and blend until smooth.

6. Add the pumpkin purée and nutmeg and blend again.

7. Strain the apple juice mixture into the blender to make sure only the liquid comes through.

8. Blend until smooth.

9. Put a fine mesh strainer over a pitcher and strain the pulp so that only the thick juice drips into the pitcher.

10. Sprinkle with ground nutmeg before serving.

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Creating this Healthy Version of Pumpkin Juice

There’s more to pumpkin juice than just breaking into a haunted pumpkin patch, fending off the zombies, and juicing a pumpkin.

I took the time to really try to figure out this popular drink on Dragon Alley. This Harry Potter World copycat recipe has magical flavor that bewitched my tastebuds. I would challenge Harry Potter to a taste off because once I created this specialty drink, taste test results were overwhelmingly positive! This Harry Potter Pumpkin Juice recipe is the best I’ve ever had! 

This vegan drink is perfect all year round, for my die-hard Potterheads!

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How did your Harry Potter pumpkin juice recipe turn out?