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Our favorite fun and festive recipes for St. Patrick's Day. These crowd-pleasing recipes are the perfect way to celebrate.
St. Patrick's Day is the perfect occasion to celebrate with a fun recipe. We've rounded up some of our favorites today! There are Irish-inspired recipes as well as just plain fun and festive ones in green.
A few years ago we had the opportunity to travel to Ireland and fell in love with the beautiful country and its people. If you want to read a little about that trip and a wonderful culinary experience, check out these posts. There's plenty of time to plan your menu and whip up a few of these recipes before next week. Be sure to pin away and let us know which ones you'll be making. Happy St. Patrick's Day!
These melt-in-your-mouth Leprechaun Shortbread Bites, inspired by the magical Emerald Isle, are delicious, easy and so fun to gift to family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, etc. with an adorable, free printable label!
These crisp, buttery melt-in-your-mouth delicious Irish Shortbread Cookies require just one bowl and no mixer! They come together quickly and disappear even quicker, so make plenty!
This unique, delicious Cheddar Herb Savory Irish Soda Bread goes well with soups, salads and just about any entree and yet comes together in well under an hour! It always brings rave reviews from young and old alike, Irish or not!
Healthy, delicious and vibrantly green, this creamy, Ballymaloe Fresh Spinach Soup (with no cream) comes together in less than an hour and has been bringing rave reviews for over 50 years at Ballymaloe Cookery School, near Cork, Ireland!
With sweet, lightly stewed blackberries layered with tangy vanilla whipped cream and yogurt, this delicious Irish Blackberry Fool is easy to put together and universally loved. It's perfect for both fancy dinner parties and casual nights at home!
This sweet and spicy Pineapple Jalapeño Pepper Jelly is as easy as it is delicious and the perfect color to serve at a St. Patrick's Day celebration! Serve it with cream cheese, on a cheese board, as a dipping sauce, grilling glaze... even on ice cream - expect rave reviews!
These decadent, make-ahead, no-bake Irish Chocolate Cheesecake Jars are perfect for parties, picnics, potlucks - take them anywhere, they're portable!
No one will believe these delicious, make-ahead, dinner-party-worthy Blender Chocolate Pots de Crème with Irish Cream took 5-minutes of hands-on time.
This Best Ever Chocolate Bundt Cake (made with Irish whiskey!) with Caramel Icing is rich, decadent, and super easy to throw together, no mixer necessary!
Thought for the  day:
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD.
"As the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:8-9
What we're listening to for inspiration:
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Hi there! I can't seem to find the Irish Flag Clementine Cucumber Salad . Where would it be hiding? Thank you, Sarah
Hi Sarah, it will be posted tomorrow. It's still hiding in my computer (well, and in my tummy - we had it for lunch. So good!)
I would love to have the cute labels for the leprechaun cookies. I love your site, recipes and especially the scriptures you post. It is an added blessing.
Thank you
Sure, Marcia!
Sure, Mary!
Would love to have some labels for the Leprechaun cookies as well.
I do love that your recipes come with a metric version. So much more precise. Not sure if it's a programming thing, but it would make more sense to keep the tsp and TBSP measurements. Using grams for that is just too silly.
Thanks for giving me your thoughts regarding the metric conversion. Not being a metric cook myself, I never know whether to leave them at teaspoons and tablespoons or to convert them to g. Perhaps more readers who use metric could chime in on this.
We will get the labels to you!
As a baker in the U.S. I prefer the metric version for the same reason stated, a consistent end product and while you can track overall weight when adding the tiny tablespoon and teaspoon in metric it's just as easy to keep them as is.
Thank you for providing delicious easy to follow recipes with very good tips added!
Thank you for your input, Dolores! That's helpful to know.
These look delicious, can't wait to make them for gifting. The labels are adorable
Thanks, Frenceen!
I will be making the Leprechaun Shortbread squares for a couple of friends and would love to have the cute label to put on the bags please!