St. Patrick's Day

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Endless St. Patrick’s Day

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to best pay homage to everyone’s favorite emerald isle. And ya’ll know that here at ES we go way beyond just green beer.

Whether you’re looking for something sweet (Irish cheesecake bites), savory (Guinness and steak pie) or somewhere in between (Irish soda bread), we’ve got all your St. Patrick’s Day recipes in one place. For you comprehensive folks, there’s 100 ways to cook with Guinness; just don’t forget to top everything with some Kerrygold butter

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by bakersroyale

Booze Bites: Irish Car Bomb Jell-O Shots

Chewable beer bite? Sure, you probably associate that phrase with a less-than-pleasant experience, something that might have involved hanging out a car door window like a dog on a drive. Luckily, we’re here to supplant that memory with a chewable beer bite you can enjoy. Let’s talk Irish Car Bomb Jell-shots.

No more worries of having to invoke those college days when you had guzzle this drink quickly just to avoid the curdle. No, we’ve grown up, we can self-moderate and we can do so gracefully with a treat that won’t leave guzzling trails at the corner of our mouths.

*To make this fun treat we we used two types of molds. The layered Jell-o shot on the right is made using a mini muffin pan. To acheive the shot-in-the-glass look like the ones on the left we used this mold found here.

Irish Car Bomb Jell-o Shots

by forkitude

Artsy Photo Of The Day

Beer will be involved in every single meal today. Including dessert. And breakfast.

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101st Guinness Recipe: Irish Cheesecake Bombs

Irish car bombs, re-imagined as cheesecake, made in individual sizes, fork required. All you have to do is mix your Guinness in some chocolate cheesecake batter, spike the classic cheesecake with some Baileys, throw the whiskey in the Oreo cookie crust and you have yourself an Irish car bomb that won’t require a designated driver.

Alright, now that St. Patty’s will be over in two days, I promise to ease up on the beer desserts. Uh, maybe not…I’m so invoking the two-second rule on that food statement. I’m on a beer and cocktail/dessert mashup kick. If anyone has a cocktail they want to see in a dessert, let me know in the comment section and I’ll make it happen!

Individual Irish Cheesecake Bombs

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by forkitude

How to Sop Up Guinness: Cast Iron Irish Soda Bread

Believe it or not, the Irish are serious about their soda bread. I absolutely love the Society for the Preservation of Irish Soda Bread’s website. You really shouldn’t mess around with Irish soda bread wanna-be’s. It’s the real deal or nothing. Go traditional or go home. As an Irish girl and a lover of beer, shamrock tattoos, Irish music, and leprechauns, I can appreciate that. Don’t call something soda bread if it’s not soda bread!

So I think I have done my Irish roots justice in this recipe. Ok, aside from the yogurt, which was not available in Ireland in the 19th century. But, there are no raisins in this bread, nor orange zest, nuts, eggs, baking powder or yeast.

Let me explain. Irish soda bread doesn’t contain yeast. The whole point of the bicarbonate soda was that it was used in place of the yeast as a leavening agent. I even used cast iron like they did back in the day. Plus, I love any excuse to bust out my cute little cast iron skillets.

They are cute. Don’t laugh.

This is a basic, delicious, easy, pretty damn traditional Irish soda bread to sop up the beer that you will drink on St. Paddy’s Day.

Slainte!

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by BS

100 Ways to Cook With Guinness

St. Patrick’s Day raises a lot of questions: How is every person in America suddenly Irish-American on this one day only? Is green beer really safe to drink? Where did I leave my car/friends/clothes? But mostly, St. Patrick’s Day makes us wonder: why don’t we cook with Guinness every day of the year? Sure, there are the standard Guinness brownies and Guinness steak pie, but Ireland’s signature brew can also spruce up everything from Guinness risotto to Guinness cornbread and Guinness milkshakes. We scoured the web for 100 delectable recipes that take cooking with Guinness to the next level, on St. Patrick’s or any other day of the year.

Click on the photos for full recipes.

More St. Patrick’s Day food and drink ideas in Endless St. Patrick’s Day

More 100 Ways:
100 Ways to Cook Bacon
100 Ways to Cook an Egg
100 Ways to Cook a Banana
100 Ways to Cook a Tomato
100 Ways to Cook a Pumpkin
100 Ways to Cook a Sweet Potato

More Cooking with Beer:
Chocolate and beer filled donuts
Beer bread with sunnyside up egg
Chocolate-beer truffles

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by bakersroyale

A Dessert for St. Patrick: Irish Brownie Bombs

You’ve had your Guinness in a cold mug, your whiskey straight up and your Bailey’s in a mixed drink, and of course maybe all in one for an Irish Car Bomb. But this St. Patrick’s day let’s try it in a dessert with some Irish Brownie Bombs.

It’s a classic brownie bottom with some Guinness mixed in the batter. On top of the brownie is a cheesecake layer blended with some Bailey’s. Finally, mix your Jameson whiskey shot into the three leaf clover piping. And there you have it, Irish Brownie Bombs that won’t leave you with a black-eye.