17 St. Patrick’s Day recipes for the luckiest day ever
If you’re looking to hang out with friends this March 17, I’ve got all the St. Patrick’s Day recipes you need from savory breads perfect for corned beef, simple appetizers with bright green color, to easy shamrock cookies.
It’s been a long time since I went out with friends for St. Patrick’s Day, yet it’s a merry day with food that’s worth celebrating. Thankfully we can all make these things at home for cheaper without the rowdy crowds.
So if you’re up for a good time baking with your kids and celebrating Irish things with your family, make your own mix and match menu from the recipes below.
St. Patrick’s Day recipes
Build your own St. Patrick’s Day menu for a low key celebration at home. With fun kid-friendly cookies and full meal in a bread ideas, there’s something here for everyone.
St. Patrick’s Day appetizers
With all the lush green grass and happy cows, the Irish make some incredible cheese. Take advantage of it with these flavorful appetizers. We love Dubliner in our house, but other porter, whiskey, or beer flavored cheeses are good!
Homemade Cheese Crackers are miles better than the box
These crackers are the ultimate charcuterie accompaniment any time. Make them with Dubliner or Cashel Blue cheese for extra Irish points. These are so easy to make and so ridiculously tasty, you may never buy boxed crackers again.
Pesto Monkey Bread is the savory appetizer that’ll make your house smell amazing
Pull apart pesto bread covered in a garlicky herby pesto sauce and lots of cheese; this is the perfect appetizer bread for any get together.
Cheese straws are perfect last minute appetizer when you have hungry guests
Take awesome puff pastry and make it into the easiest and best looking appetizer in these incredible cheese straws. If you make these with Irish cheddar and a smattering of parsley, you’ll have a quick and easy app you can get in the oven in 15 minutes flat.
St. Patrick’s Day tea time treats
These quick breads and easy hand pies are great for breakfast, with a strong cup of Irish breakfast tea, or you could enjoy them as lighter desserts as well.
Easy pistachio lemon bread: all the Spring feels you want
Bright and sunny lemon flavor with a lovely layer of green pistachios in the bread and on top, this moist, tender lemon loaf is the perfect tea accompaniment for
St. Paddy’s Day.
Gingerbread Muffins taste just like the cookies but softer
Cozy gingerbread spiced muffins with a simple vanilla glaze. You may not look at gingerbread and think “Irish” automatically, but the cozy spices undergird a lot of the flavors in stout beers, making them an unconventional but delicious accompaniment on St. Patrick’s.
Mini Easy Apple Hand Pies are the cutest way to enjoy homemade apple pie
These are easy to make up ahead of time and freeze, so you can enjoy them when you want. Make them with the homemade apple pie filling later on the list, spiked with a little whiskey for the loveliest apple pie with an Irish touch.
St. Patrick’s Day breads
You’ll love these side breads to go along with your corned beef and cabbage, Irish stew, or shepherd’s pie. All of them come together without much fuss and have wonderful dunkable, holdable texture that feels extra homey.
The Best Potato Rolls in choose your own adventure shapes
What could be more Irish than potatoes? Here we use them to create ultra soft dinner rolls that go with practically everything.
The best Sour Cream Biscuits
You may not always be able to find the thick, luscious buttermilk they have in Ireland for their soda breads, but here in the US you can ALWAYS get good sour cream! Here sour cream takes the place of the buttermilk to make the flakiest, most butter filled biscuits. This is the place to bust out the good butter for the best flavor to go next to a hearty Shepherd’s Pie.
Easy whole wheat dinner rolls for an awesome family supper
Filled with the goodness of naturally sweet whole wheat, these are the kind of feathery pull-apart rolls of potlucks gone by. Use honey in place of the sugar for a taste more akin to Irish breads.
Meal in one (or almost) breads for St. Patrick’s
I love it when you have easy to make breads that make dinners come together lightning quick. If you’re feeding a crowd, these recipes will make easy work of your prep.
Deli Rye Pan Buns for the most perfect Reuben sliders
These savory slider rolls might be the best thing ever for making sandwiches from your leftover corned beef. The tangy rye buns, with rich flavors of yogurt, caraway, and pickles (!) is a heartbeat away from becoming a truly pub-worthy sandwich.
The best krautburgers: a full meal in your hand for happy families
Who would think that Krautburgers, the invention of Russian German immigrants to Nebraska were kind of secretly Irish, but if you think about it, these little hand held cabbage burgers offer a lot to the Irish: tender cabbage and onions and savory beef in an easy to make handheld pie. This recipe feeds a small army, just don’t skip the mustard!
St. Patrick’s Day Desserts
From the best apple pie filling to a minty brownie with gorgeous green bits, these St. Paddy’s desserts are the perfect end to a good meal.
Shamrock Cookies: easy St. Patrick’s Day treats you’ll want to make
An easy slice and bake cookie with vivid green matcha flavored shamrocks on the inside of the buttery vanilla dough. These bake up into delightfully crisp cookies perfect for snacking, preferably with a hot cup of black tea.
Triple mint brownies are a mint chocolate lover’s dream
A mint dark chocolate bar, Andes mints, and mint chocolate cookie bites come together in a rich fudgy batter to make the ultimate mint lover’s brownie. If you love Girl Scouts’ Thin Mints, this brownie is for YOU!
Lucky Charms Cookies are pure fun for St. Patrick’s Day
Festive soft sugar cookies filled with bright Lucky Charms cereal and topped if you’d like with matcha white chocolate frosting. This cookie is pure nostalgia for all things magically delicious.
Zucchini Cookies with chocolate will make you love squash
With lively flecks of green and the hearty taste of oats, these delightful cookies are an easy treat for St. Patrick’s that’ll woo you with their chewy buttery texture next to the creaminess of the chocolate.
The Chocolate Caramel Swirl Ice Cream your cold brew needs
With luxurious soft chocolate flavor and the bitter sweet edge of caramel, there’s no wrong way to enjoy this ice cream. This makes the most incredible Irish coffee affogato, or serve it up as it with a couple crumbled cookies up top for the kids.
Make Ahead Apple Pie Filling that takes out all the guesswork
These sauteed apples, cooked up in plenty of butter, a touch of sweetness and a good splash of whiskey are the cheat code to perfect apple desserts. You can make this into an easy apple crisp by crumbling some oatmeal cookies on top with a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You’re welcome.
