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03-04-2013, 09:44 PM | #1 |
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St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
Our church has a St. Patrick's day stew supper each year. Every year, the desserts mostly feature green. Green jello, green pudding, green ickyness. I signed up to bring two desserts (generally a 13x9 pan item, but not limited to that). Any suggestions of things that are NOT fake green?
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03-04-2013, 09:46 PM | #2 |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
Blondies?
Things that are fake gold?
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03-04-2013, 10:51 PM | #3 |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
If you want "green but not fake"...
Green grapes, to be dipped in sour cream and then brown sugar. I know, it sounds weird, but seriously? Try it. Although I admit it's hard to serve as a potluck dish, unless you make up little dixie cups of sour cream and then more of brown sugar. You could do anything you like and stud the top with foil-wrapped chocolate coins. Voila, gold. Oooooorrrrr....since it's St. Patrick's day and all.... http://www.coolest-birthday-cakes.co...ting-idea.html |
03-04-2013, 11:53 PM | #4 |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
Chocolate cake with mint chocolate icing...using mint extract in dark chocolate. Possibly garnished with a couple of mint leaves in the middle; not as something people would intentionally eat with each slice, but just like a little cluster of two or three in the center of the whole cake, to look green and alert people of the mint flavor.
Last year, for a St. Patrick's Day cooking class, someone taught dd to make some sort of traditional Irish "potato candy". They were balls of potato starch and powdered sugar...and maybe coconut? eta: Here's a link. I stand corrected: there is no actual potato in the recipe. They're just shaped like potatoes, and rolled in cocoa power for dirt. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Irish-Potato-Candy/ recipe http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=...C3&FORM=IQFRBA --some more appealing photos, and lol, if you scroll halfway down there really is one recipe that contains mashed potatoes as the starch (it's pictured as a photo of an old newspaper clipping)
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03-05-2013, 12:03 AM | #5 |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
Pistachio cake
Key Lime Pie (the pie is not really green unless you use food dye, but you could garnish with limes) |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
I thought of Key Lime pie or Irish Cream cheesecake. Shamrock shaped cookies?
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03-05-2013, 01:17 AM | #7 |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
My oldest wants to make chocolate whoopie pies with mint filling. Of course, she will want to dye the filling green, but it's not necessary.
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03-05-2013, 06:58 AM | #8 |
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Re: St.Patrick's Day dessert ideas
Yeah, I don't want things to be green. Every year, there are desserts that have green layers that just look...awful. I saw a recipe for Irish Cream frosted brownies, that might be a good idea for one of the desserts.
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