St. Patrick's Day Recipes

Hearty Irish soda bread is easy to make. It's welcome any time of year but is essential on St. Patrick's Day.

This humble Irish-Style Brown Bread, which gets a small update with the addition of rye flour, is similar to the one you would find every day on the traditional Irish table, served with butter and jam, smoked salmon, or stew. This recipe appears in our cookbook, "A New Way to Bake" (Clarkson Potter).

Lucky guests will love this whiskey Irish Buck Cocktail for St. Patrick's Day, especially if you serve a round with Leek-and-Cheddar Dip.

Make this classic Irish Butter Shortbread recipe from Rachel Gaffney for a melt-in-your-mouth St. Patrick's Day treat.

Sometimes called jumbles, these intricate Celtic Knot butter cookies date back to medieval times. They're flavored with vanilla and two kinds of seeds—anise and caraway.

This Treacle Brown Bread is delicious with good Irish butter and sea salt. Or try it with blackberry jam and slices of an Irish blue cheese, such as Cashel Blue.

The Jameson McCree is a delicious drink to make to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day.

Irish cheddar nicely complements the floral honey and sweet pears that are sandwiched in the Scones with Pears, Irish Cheddar, and Honey.

When this classic Irish Soda Bread is easy to make, you'll bake it all year round! The bread will keep, wrapped in plastic, for up to two weeks at room temperature.

These Chocolate-Stout Cupcakes can be frosted and stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator up to a day ahead. Perfect for St. Patrick's Day, decorate them with the hearts just before serving.

An easy bar cookie for the weekend -- will any be left for St. Patrick's Day?

Serve this updated rye soda bread with orange marmalade, Irish butter, smoked trout, Cashel Blue cheese, and our simple Watercress Salad for an impressive brunch spread.

Creamy meets crunchy when a layer of velvety lime-flavored mascarpone-ricotta mousse and tart lime curd come together in a rustic pistachio shell in this Lime-Pistachio Tart. It may look like a cheesecake, but it is lighter and airier—a fitting finale to a spring get-together. Indeed, the green zest garnish lends itself quite nicely to a Saint Patrick's Day meal.

This Irish Brown Soda Bread recipe comes to us from Ellen Clarke, one of our merchandising product managers. She got the recipe from her grandmother, Mary Morrisroe. You can replace the sugar with honey if desired. The bread is delicious served with butter and jam.

Simple, homey, and hearty: The traditional Saint Patrick's Day meal of Corned Beef and Cabbage is too delicious to enjoy just once a year. Lucinda Scala Quinn's take on corned beef and cabbage has the familiar flavors but skips the lengthy brining process to make beef that is uncorned.

This crusty, traditional Irish bread is a proud product of the peasant hearth—and the most suitable companion to Irish Stew. Soda bread requires no rising time, as baking powder, baking soda, and buttermilk act as leaveners.

Serve this Potato-Leak Egg Bake with Hearty Pork Sausages.

The ingredients for Irish stew are layered in a heavy pot and slow-cooked in the oven, allowing the lamb and potatoes to tenderize and the flavors to deepen and meld. The best part is that you can walk away from the simmering pot and return two hours later to a mouthwatering meal.

This stout-braised lamb is most delicious made at least one day and up to three days ahead. If making the same day, skim excess fat from surface of braising liquid with a spoon.

Green sprinkles add a festive touch to this dessert of fudgy chocolate brownies, adapted from the "Martha Stewart Baking Handbook."

The Chicken Salad with Avocado Dressing livens up your chicken salad without using any mayo.

This Irish mash of potatoes and apples makes a nice side dish for Uncorned Beef and Cabbage.

Show your St. Patrick's Day spirit with this green, white, and orange snack (the colors of the Irish flag!). Cucumbers cut into clovers, plus carrot and celery sticks, are served with an easy yogurt-based ranch dip.

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day, we've reimagined the traditional drink as a cupcake for grown-ups. The moist, delicate Irish Coffee Cupcakes are flavored with espresso and brown sugar and topped with billowy whipped-cream frosting spiked with whiskey. A dusting of espresso powder makes a festive finish. If you don't have two muffin tins, bake these cupcakes in batches.