St. Patrick’s day is a day revolved around drinking and eating corned beef and cabbage. While this meal is delicious on its own, sometimes you need something sweet to finish off that salty, savory flavor. With a day filled with as much green as possible, these treats are green to go perfectly with the festivities!
With cookies, doughnuts, brownies and cupcakes, there are so many different ways to enjoy normal desserts but in a St. Patrick’s Day style. Add some mint to an Oreo for a delicious green truffle or shape rice crispy treats like shamrocks for a beautiful, and delicious, display. Or even start your day off with some pancakes topped with Lucky Charm marshmallows for a magically delicious, and extra lucky, finish that kids, or kids at heart, will just love!
With a day filled of indulging yourself in all things green, these treats will leave you wanting more, whether it’s St. Patrick’s Day or not. So grab your green food coloring, some mint Oreos, a box of lucky charms and your typical baking needs to make what TheCeleberityCafe.com believes are the top 10 green treats to make this St. Patrick’s Day.
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10. Lucky Leprechaun Munch
This munch is easy to make and perfect to bag up and put in your kids lunch. It’s green and includes Lucky Charms for that extra special luck. With four simple ingredients, including Lucky Charms cereal, Rice Chex cereal, green candy melts and pastel sprinkles, this crunchy, sticky munch will leave your kids wanting it as a snack everyday.
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9. Mint Oreo Cookie Truffles
These may not be completely green, but the green chocolate drizzle makes it perfectly festive. Although they look professional, they are really easy to make and only require three ingredients! Mix finely chopped Oreo cookies with cream cheese to make a gooey filling and then roll into little balls that cool off to become just the right consistency so you can completely cover them in melted chocolate! Drizzle with green icing or melted green chocolates for that festive look.
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8. St. Patty’s Mini Doughnuts
Doughnuts may seem like a complicated treat to make but this recipe is so simple, and can easily be made gluten free! Besides the typical baking ingredients, which you most likely already have in your home, all you’ll need is a doughnut pan. The glaze is dyed green with food coloring to dip your vanilla doughnuts into for a beautiful green finish! Use a little dye for a pretty light green glaze, or a large amount to make your doughnuts a nice dark green.
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7. Shamrock Rice Crispy Treats
Rice Crispy treats are the kind of simple treat that can be made for any occasion. You can shape them into whatever shape you’d like with your hands or a simple cookie cutter and decorating and dye can turn these treats into awesome, colorful creations! These particular Rice Crispy treats have a special ingredient, vanilla, which makes them extra yummy. Stir the vanilla, along with some green food coloring, into the melted marshmallows and use a shamrock cookie cutter to make these look perfect for this holiday.
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Red velvet is a very trendy flavoring for baked goods lately. By using an entire bottle of green food coloring, for a deep forest green, these cupcakes have all the usual flavors of a red velvet cupcake, except they’re the perfect green for St. Patrick’s Day! These require a little more work than some cupcakes, but the end result is totally worth it. Top with a vanilla whipped frosting and some shamrock sprinkles to complete the look.
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5. Chocolate Mint Brownies
Brownies are always a guaranteed hit and even though these treats aren’t completely green, the mint cream filling gives it a perfect touch. Make your typical brownies, and cut them in half to fill with the mint cream filling and then top with a chocolate icing for that ooey, gooey chocolate goodness every brownie needs.
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4. Lucky Charms Cupcakes
Cupcakes can be so fun to make and decorate, and can themed for any occasion. Add green food coloring to the vanilla cake batter for a green cake. These cupcakes have an extra special surprise on the inside. By making two icings, one green for the surprise filling and one marshmallow flavored to top the cupcakes with, this gooey cupcake will leave your mouth watering. Top the marshmallow icing with Lucky Charm marshmallows and green sprinkles for an extremely festive, and delicious, treat!
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3. Magically Delicious Pancakes
What could be a better way to start off your St. Patrick’s Day morning than with some green pancakes? These are extremely easy to make! Add some green food coloring to your typical pancake batter for fluffy, green cakes and then top with some whipped cream and Lucky Charms marshmallows for a magically delicious breakfast, or dessert!
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2. Oreo Surprise Cupcakes
These chocolate cupcakes are stuffed with a special surprise mint candy and then topped with an Oreo cookie for double the fun. With a mint flavored cream cheese chocolate and crushed Oreos as garnish, these make an extremely tasty and chocolaty cupcake. The mint frosting is the perfect shade of green to make these the perfect St. Patrick’s Day treat!
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1. St Patrick’s Day Cookie Bites
This cookie celebrates all the flavors and colors of St. Patrick’s Day perfectly, and they’re surprisingly easy to make! Start with a simple sugar cookie mix infused with peppermint extract and green food coloring and then put a fluffy whipped cream frosting in between two of the cookies. Dip these cookie sandwiches into melted chocolate and top with some green or shamrock sprinkles for a delicious, green and minty cookie treat! You seriously can’t go wrong with cookies, whipped cream and chocolate.
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