I have always LOVE mint and chocolate since the first time I took a bite of mint chocolate chip ice cream when I was a kid. Then there was that time each year in late winter-early spring when I’d enjoy thin mint cookies from the girl scouts, and oh mint chocolate chip meringue cookies… these…
Corned Beef & Cabbage Egg Rolls
Now let’s talk corned beef… for as long as I can remember I’ve been enjoying corned beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s Day. When I was about 20 I started making it and surprised my family with the whole meal, Irish Soda Bread and all! I’ve cooked it many ways and found using…
Mint Chocolate Chip Biscotti
Biscotti gets a delicious MINTY makeover today and not any time too soon, after all I think March is the month of MINT (unofficially, of course) and mint and chocolate go SO well together, wrapping it all up in biscotti HAD to be done. You know how much I love mint don’t you?
Chocolate Chip Mint Cut Out Cookies
Not sure what it is but as soon as March rolls around, all things GREEN and MINT seem to consume my thoughts! After all St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner, I really miss watching the parade I used to see years ago. It’s still going on in the town I would see it,…
Green Velvet Cupcakes
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Aren’t these festive and the perfect green for St. Patrick’s Day? They are easy enough to whip up, so you can start celebrating. Isn’t everyone a little bit Irish on St. Patty’s Day! Velvet cupcakes wouldn’t be the same without cream cheese frosting, Red Velvet, Green Velvet, they both NEED cream…
Mocha Mint Cupcakes
We are getting plenty of rain and by the looks of it…. the rain will continue into tomorrow. There should be RAINBOWS popping up everywhere. I took this photo a few months ago when it rained, I love that when it rains where I live, we often see rainbows and even double rainbows.You can see…
Mint Cut-Out Cookies with Dark Chocolate Glaze Icing
Mint and Chocolate were made to together. These mint cut out cookies and dark chocolate icing go perfectly together. There is no denying they have a familiar taste to a well known Girl Scout Cookie, yes they do. Did that grab your attention? Yes you can have the Thin Mint Experience ANYTIME! Mint Cookie Recipe…
Irish Soda Bread Recipe
I have always LOVED Irish Soda Bread it one of the best parts of celebrating St. Patrick’s Day but I really like it all year long. Irish soda bread is a quick bread, with no yeast or rising time. It comes together quickly if you are using a pastry cutter, then you’ll knead…
St. Patrick’s Day hat; a Leprechaun hat
It looks like that sneaky leprechaun has lost his hat! Can you guess what it is made out of? Did you guess a cupcake? Guess I’m not as sneaky as a that leprechaun, but I do have his hat! This leprechaun’s hat was not difficult to make. I took a cupcake out of the cupcake…
