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Best St.Patrick's Day Party Ideas
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items Are you needing some inspiration for planning your St. Paddy’s day celebration today…or for this weekend?! Well, I have some great ideas for you, whether it’s for work, school, or an adult dinner party, use any of these ideas you wish!
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These recipes are sure to make your St. Patrick’s Day celebration one to remember.
Forget the bland, boiled meat and veggie images you think of just hearing the name. This salt-cured beef brisket is fork tender thanks to a low-and-slow braise, and a homemade horseradish sauce adds a spicy kick to every bite.
Corned Beef and Cabbage - Julie's Eats & Treats
It’s Ireland’s most famous potato dish, after all! Made with floury potatoes, shredded cabbage, pungent green onions and a generous helping of butter and milk, it’s creamy comfort food.
Best Colcannon Recipe - How to Make Colcannon - The …
A slow-simmered stew is our idea of a cozy meal any time of year, but one spiked with a couple glugs of Guinness is especially appropriate for St. Patrick’s Day.
Best Irish Beef Stew Recipe - How To Make Irish Beef …
With a hearty filling of ground meat and sauteed vegetables, and a cloud-like topping of mashed potatoes and melted cheese, what’s not to love? Bonus: The one-skillet meal is a breeze as far as cleanup goes.
Traditional Shepherd's Pie Recipe: How to Make It - Taste of Home
The most epic way to kick off St. Patrick’s Day is with a hearty Irish breakfast. Because the oven does most of the work for you on this one, you can prepare the eggs and corned beef hash ahead of time. Pop them in to bake while you enjoy your Irish ...
Canned corned beef hash and eggs recipe - Comfort …
These fudgy little squares will cause cravings. Each brownie bite is a brilliant mix of St. Patrick’s Day’s finest flavors, thanks to an Irish cream frosting.
Fudgy Layered Irish Mocha Brownies - Taste of Home
Swap the old-fashioned boiling method for a sauteed situation. This anything-but-boring cabbage dish bursts with bold flavor because it’s braised in butter and seasoned with sugar and crushed red pepper flakes.
Sauteed Cabbage | Easy, Healthy Recipe - Well Plated by Erin
If you’re a firm believer that corned beef is better sandwiched between bread, then these golden, cheesy handhelds are calling your name. Each sandwich is piled high with tender slices of corned beef layered with melty Swiss and sauerkraut.
Best Corned Beef Sandwich Recipe - How to Make …
If your St. Patrick’s Day celebration leans towards a family affair, where cooking for a crowd is par for the course, consider this homey stout and honey pot roast recipe with carrots, red potatoes and onions. A bouquet of herbs and a little ground c...
Stout & Honey Beef Roast Recipe: How to Make It
Bought a little too much ale for the most Irish day of the year? Put it to good use in these soft beer pretzels that are begging to be dunked in a cheddar cheese sauce or mustard pretzel dip.
Beer Pretzels & Cheddar Dipping Sauce - Chef Dennis
Corned beef is quite arguably the star of the St. Paddy’s spread, and for good reason. If you want a recipe without cabbage, this is the one for you. Whether you’re making corned beef for Reubens, dip or hash, an A+ brined brisket recipe is the key t...
Corned beef
Don’t let the rather peculiar name of this green dessert fool you—it’s the opposite of a flop. Although it does possess an effervescent lemon-lime soda layer that falls to the bottom of the dish, it’s creamy, cool and refreshing all at once.
Green Flop Jell-O Recipe: How to Make It - Taste of Home
This meal is comfort food, defined. Bangers (aka sausages) are the star of the show here, so make sure you buy the highest-quality ones you can find. Then, you’ll want to caramelize the onions really well when making the gravy to give it an incredibl...
True Bangers and Mash with Onion Gravy - Allrecipes
Here’s everyone’s favorite St. Patrick’s Day sammie, dip-ified. If you have leftover Reuben ingredients lying around on March 17th (or 18th), remix them into a slow-cooker dip to serve with cubed rye bread, pretzels and crackers. Leftovers last up to...
Best Reuben Dip Recipe - How to Make Reuben Dip
Few things in life rival the mouthwatering aroma of mushrooms and leeks sauteeing in butter. Add some wine, cream and a smattering of herbs, then roll the mixture into phyllo dough strudels to puff up into golden, flaky perfection. That is a St. Patr...
Mushroom Strudel with Leeks and Parmesan Cheese
Homemade ice cream sandwich dough is the trick to recreating your favorite childhood treat. That and a shamrock cookie cutter. Swap the vanilla ice cream for green mint chocolate chip ice cream, and you’ll have an on-theme dessert to serve to all you...
Minty Ice Cream Shamrocks - Grateful Prayer | Thankful …
Stuffed with savory corned beef and lacy Swiss cheese, it’s the Italian-Irish mashup you didn’t know you needed in life.
Corned Beef Pizza Swirls Recipe: How to Make It - Taste …
Given that St. Patrick’s Day is pretty important among beer lovers, it only makes sense to incorporate dishes and desserts showcasing stout in your holiday menu. Case in point: beer cheese potato soup. This popular Wisconsin brewpub dish features bee...
Beer Cheese Potato Soup - Simply Made Recipes
These cheeky leprechaun cookies will be a big hit with the littles—and the adults—at your St. Paddy’s Day bash. Although making and frosting their outfits is slightly labor intensive, I highly recommend doing so for the final payoff. Use edible marke...
Lucky Leprechaun Cookies Recipe - Food Life Design
Between the smoky taste and semi-charred leaves, grilled cabbage is unexpected, yet so fantastic.
Grilled Cabbage - A Couple Cooks
Looking for a pescatarian option to round out the meat-centric fare on March 17th? Fish and chips it is! This crispy main from jolly old England to America’s heartland is a must—and while you might be used to ordering a fish fry at your favorite rest...
Beer Battered Fish - The Pioneer Woman
These tie-dyed cupcakes are magically delicious, even without a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow candy belt. All you need is a box of white cake mix, lemon-lime soda and neon food coloring to make them, plus blue and white frosting to match the ...
Tie-Dyed Cupcakes Recipe: How to Make It - Taste of Home
Not a fan of corned beef? Give this one-pot sausage dinner with chopped fresh cabbage and waxy Yukon gold potatoes a try. All the flavors meld and caramelize perfectly, and at the end of the meal, you won’t have a sink full of dishes to clean.
Cabbage Potatoes and Sausage - Easy Dinner Ideas
It’s fun to make a holiday dish with an element of surprise, and this shamrock dessert takes the cake as far as beautiful baked goods go. Leftovers can be cubed and served in festive coupes, then layered with warm fudge sauce for an even more decaden...
Shamrock Cutout Pound Cake Recipe: How to Make It
Potatoes of all kinds are welcome on St. Patrick’s Day, whether it’s mashed potatoes in colcannon, fried potatoes in fish and chips, or scooped and baked spuds for potato skin dippers with sour cream and chives. If your family loves loaded baked pota...
Savory Potato Skins Recipe: How to Make It - Taste of …
One of the easiest, cheesiest, scoopiest spreads, which definitely makes it worthy of a place on your St. Paddy’s table. Serve with pita chips, crackers, crisp veggies or anything else dippable, and you have yourself a party.
Baked Onion Dip Recipe: How to Make It - Taste of Home
If you’re looking to incorporate more lean proteins into your menu, these baked salmon patties are the answer. Simply stir together a mixture of canned salmon, veggies and herbed mayonnaise, scoop it into muffin cups, and then bake and enjoy.
Baked Salmon Patties - Kevin Is Cooking
Apricot and bacon are a match made in ingredient heaven as far as I am concerned. The duo is prime for St. Paddy’s Day snacking, too. The combo of sweet and savory in these spirals is unparalleled and will have everyone reaching for poppable seconds,...
Apricot-Glazed Bacon Spirals Recipe: How to Make It
It’s not St. Patrick’s Day unless a Guinness-infused chocolate cake is involved. This robust treat is topped with a complementary cream cheese frosting that’s light, fluffy and reminiscent of a head of beer. “Lovely day for a Guinness!” as the saying...
Best Chocolate Guinness Cake Recipe - The Pioneer …
This dip has all the goodness of loaded baked potatoes in dip form. Whatever vessel you choose for this savory spud spread, trust that the bacon and chive-specked condiment pairs well with just about anything it encounters. I highly recommend crispy ...
Loaded Baked Potato Dip Recipe: How to Make It
Traditional lamb stew recipes are often made with mutton in Ireland, but it’s a bit tougher than lamb shoulder or leg—of which the latter two will become meltingly tender when braised in beef broth. This stick-to-your-ribs stew is overflowing with cr...
Lamb Stew - Allrecipes
These one-bite crostini are always popular and prime for St. Paddy’s festivities. Topped with thinly shaved roast beef, crumbly blue cheese, horseradish and minced chives, they’re a total crowd-pleaser.
Beef and Blue Cheese Crostini Recipe: How to Make It
Try this easy beer dip appetizer if you’re trying to take your “Erin Go Bragh” energy outside the kitchen rather than getting stuck in it all day. With only four ingredients and a few minutes, you’ll have one of the most delicious dip recipes there e...
Beer Dip I - Allrecipes
After stews, savory meats and more substantial Irish fare, a light-as-can-be taste of the rainbow pound cake is a welcome dessert. Pro tip: Use solid shortening to grease fluted tube pans for this recipe so the cake pops out easily.
Rainbow Cake with Clouds Recipe: How to Make It
Feeling fancy on St. Paddy’s? Add a mascarpone-frosted créme de menthe cupcake to your sweets hour. If you’re after Pinterest-worthy, extra-thick frosting like the topper in this photo, double all the ingredients.
Creme de Menthe Cupcakes Recipe: How to Make It
These lusciously whipped tubers get a flavor boost from a garlic herb cream sauce, complete with an herbal bouquet of rosemary and thyme. This creamy parsnip puree recipe is especially well-suited as a holiday side dish for St. Patrick’s Day next to ...
Ina Garten Parsnip Purée - Ina Garten Eats
Andes candies lovers, this one’s for you. Minty, chocolatey, fudgy brownies get the ultimate crème de menthe treatment in this recipe that you can customize by swirling in walnuts for crunchy bites or chocolate chips for sweet notes.
Classic Mint Chocolate Brownies - Sally's Baking Addiction
It’s not a St. Paddy’s celebration without Irish soda bread. This quintessential quick bread is studded with raisins. It can be served for breakfast, lunch, dinner or an afternoon snack, slathered in Irish butter and jam.
Amazingly Easy Irish Soda Bread - Allrecipes
Trifles are one of those whimsical desserts that perfectly embrace the festive nature of parties. Layered with sweet surprises throughout, each bite is akin to five desserts in one. This St. Patrick’s Day trifle employs devil’s food cake, chocolate p...
Boozy Baileys Chocolate Trifle - Life, Love …
Name a prettier cake…I'll wait. With a silky Irish cream frosting, tiers of rich chocolate cake spiked with beer and a toothsome topper of chopped malt balls, there’s not a dessert more decadent than this one to serve on March 17th.
Malted Chocolate & Stout Layer Cake Recipe: How to Make It
These sweet shamrock-shaped sugar cookies get their green hue from food coloring. Dusted with green crystals, they’re a party-worthy treat that can be made ahead of time.
St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Cookies - Sally's Baking Addiction
These elegant apps work for all kinds of occasions where good food is the goal—although they’re a particularly delicious idea for St. Patrick’s Day celebrations. The combo of bacon-plum jam with melty brie is a home run. Toasted baguette slices are t...
Brie Appetizers with Bacon-Plum Jam - Taste of Home
The secret ingredient to these cute little cupcakes? Pistachio pudding mix for a sweet nutty flavor and low-key green color. If you want to get even more creative with the cupcake decorating, try piping on clouds (or making them out of marshmallows),...
25 Delicious St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes - Oh My Creative
If regular ol’ mashed potatoes don’t do it for you, how about smashed? Flecked with crispy skins, these taters are the best of both worlds: soft and creamy, in addition to golden and crunchy.
Perfect Smashed Potatoes Recipe - Food Network Kitchen
A hearty potato soup is just the thing to warm up your guests on a chilly March day. This one will be ready in less than an hour, so you’ll have time to make a few other things for the party.
Potato Leek Soup - Once Upon a Chef
Drinks
Try something a little different at your St. Patrick's Day party!
If you’re not adding Irish whiskey to your coffee on St. Patrick’s Day, you’re doing it wrong. Give your classic cup of joe the ultimate makeover with whipping cream, creme de menthe, the aforementioned spirit and a sweetener to make caife Gaelach, A...
Original Irish Coffee Recipe: How to Make It - The Spruce Eats
A proper whiskey sour doesn’t use sour mix, but it does employ bourbon whiskey, fresh lemon juice, simple syrup for a touch of sweetness and pasteurized liquid egg whites for the frothy foam on top. Balanced yet boozy, it’s just the cocktail to get y...
Whiskey Sour Cocktail Recipe - Liquor.com
Whether you’re hosting or attending a St. Patrick’s Day party, do yourself a favor and whip up a few bottles of homemade Irish cream beforehand. It’s the gift that keeps on giving and is perfect for turning coffee, ice cream and other desserts into a...
Homemade Irish Cream - Allrecipes
Everyone will be reaching for these little leprechaun glasses adorned with adorable belts. Each sip’s frothy blend of limeade, sherbert and bubbly lemon-lime soda is the ultimate refresher when you need a break from the stouts and heavier drinks.
Leprechaun Lime Drink Recipe: How to Make It - Taste of Home
What happens when you add a scoop of vanilla ice cream and a drizzle of chocolate sauce to a pint of “the black stuff?” A boozy, creamy, adult-friendly milkshake, that’s what. Meet the St. Patrick’s Day float of my dreams.
Guinness Float with Ice Cream - Taste of Home
If you just want the old-school fun of a big ol' mug of green beer, but without the crowds of college kids at the bar, we'll show you how make it at home.
St. Patrick's Day Green Beer Recipe - The Spruce Eats
If you'd rather something a little more authentic, get yourself a beer brewed in Ireland. Guinness is only the tip of the iceberg.
9 Popular Irish Beer Brands, Ranked - Tasting Table
Skip the overly sweet pre-made sour mix and make this using a few simple ingredients: lime juice, simple syrup, egg white, and a good Irish whiskey.
Clover Whiskey Sour - Country Living
Creamy, boozy, and sweet, this already-mixed drink is a great way to toast on St. Paddy's Day! Bailey's is the most popular, but there are actually many brands. Check out our favorites.
The 6 Best Irish Cream Liqueurs - The Spruce Eats
Another option, if you're in the mood for a straight sipper, is a good Irish Whiskey. Though it's not as well-known as Scotch, there are some really delicious Irish whiskeys. They tend to be drier and lighter than Scotch whiskeys.
16 Best Irish Whiskey Brands (Budget to Luxury) - The Irish Road Trip
If a margarita is your drink of choice, there's one of those for St. Patrick's Day, too. Use a shamrock cookie cutter to make the cutest clover garnishes!
Best Shamrockaritas Recipe- How to Make Shamrockaritas - Delish
Put a twist on the classic Tom Collins with this fresh and herby cocktail.
Garden Collins Non-Alcoholic Cocktail Recipe
Spicy rye complements sweet orange juice and sage in this simple sipper. Use your favorite Irish rye whiskey to whip up this cocktail!
Best Old Scholar Rye Whiskey Cocktail Recipe - Country Living
The sweetness and subtle nuttiness of the hazelnut liqueur Frangelico is the perfect partner to rich Irish cream.
Nutty Irishman Recipe - MyBartender
This refreshing cocktail is fun, light, and easy to drink! Plus, fresh pears give it a naturally green hue.
Pear Vanilla Gin Fizz - ShortGirlTallOrder
This cocktail combines the best parts of a manhattan and a whiskey sour (plus a splash of Cointreau). But be careful because it goes down easy!
Best Haymaker Cocktail Recipe - How to Make …
ShamROCK and roll with a Shamrock Smash in hand. This minty green apple is the perfect St. Patrick's Day cocktail to cheers with this holiday.
Best Shamrock Smash Recipe - How To Make A …
This delicious combo couldn't be easier to make—or to drink, so go slowly! To make it extra festive, use an Irish gin, such as Dingle.
Key Lime Gimlet – Riegl Palate
Stir up this stiff drink to use the last of your jam!
Orange Marmalade Old-Fashioned Jam Jar Cocktail
If you love a whiskey sour, this Gold Rush cocktail is the whiskey drink you’re already in love with, with just a few changes that make it easy enough to make on St. Patrick's Day.
Gold Rush Cocktail Recipe - Liquor.com
No, tequila isn't Irish, but the orange and green color of this pretty tipple is absolutely reminiscent of the Emerald Isles. And if whiskey isn't your thing, this is a darn good way to celebrate instead.
Pineapple Tequila Cocktail - Katie's Cucina
This kicky drink may look like iced tea, but it packs a punch! Plus, it couldn't be easier to make. Sub in your favorite Irish whiskey for the bourbon!
Spicy Ginger Beer-and-Bourbon Cooler Recipe
Sub in your favorite Irish whiskey for the bourbon, and then whip up something fun and fruity for St. Patrick's Day this year! Don't forget a sprig of fresh mint for a pop of green!
Blueberry-Bourbon Snow Cone Cocktail - Country Living
This springtime sipper is a great one to mix up for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Especially if you use your favorite Irish whiskey. It's light, citrusy, and great for celebrating!
Whiskey River Cocktail - Country Living
Decor
Get ready to shamrock and roll with these St. Patrick’s Day party ideas that will turn your celebration into a festive, fun-filled event!
Create a striking photo backdrop by arranging green balloons into the shape of a shamrock. This eye-catching display not only sets the scene for memorable photos but also adds a festive focal point to your venue.
Happy St Patricks Day Green Backdrop
Transform a small chest into a "pot of gold" by painting it and adding glittery accents. Fill it with gold-wrapped chocolates or coins to serve as a delightful centerpiece that guests can enjoy at your Saint Patrick's Day party.
Pot-O-Gold Centerpiece Party Accessory (1 count) …
Craft small leprechaun hats using green cardstock and fill them with treats. Place one at each table setting to serve as both decor and a delightful party favor for guests. These charming party decorations will add a festive touch to your celebration...
Leprechaun Hat Treat Box SVG File - Simply Crafty SVGs
String together paper or felt shamrocks to create a garland. Drape it along walls, the edge of a buffet table, or across doorways to infuse the space with festive charm. This easy DIY decoration is a must-have in your party supplies for a truly festi...
ST Patrick's Day Garland - Walmart
String together paper or felt shamrocks to create a garland. Drape it along walls, the edge of a buffet table, or across doorways to infuse the space with festive charm. This easy DIY decoration is a must-have in your party supplies for a truly festi...
Amazon.com: St Patricks Day Tableware
Arrange flowers in varying shades of green to create an ombre effect. Display these arrangements in clear vases to serve as elegant centerpieces that celebrate the holiday's signature color.
Floroom 25pcs Realistic Artificial Flowers
Create a photo booth with green streamers, banners, and props like leprechaun hats and four-leaf clover crowns. This interactive setup adds a fun element to your party and provides memorable photo opportunities for guests.
Amazon.com: St Patricks Photo Booth
Lay a vibrant rainbow-colored table runner across your dining or buffet table. This not only adds a pop of color but also ties into the classic theme of rainbows leading to pots of gold. It's a perfect addition to your party decorations, bringing fes...
Amazon.com: Rainbow Table Runner
Assemble a fruit platter arranged in the colors of the rainbow, using fruits like strawberries, oranges, pineapples, kiwis, blueberries, and grapes. This not only serves as a healthy snack but also reinforces the St. Patrick's Day theme.
19 Eye-Grabbing Fruit Display Ideas - Bright Stuffs