St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes – A Fun and Delicious Recipe

In this post: Here’s a fun and delicious St. Patrick’s Day cupcake recipe that kids will love! These little green treats will be a big hit on St. Patrick’s Day or anytime you want to celebrate!

St. Patrick’s Day is such a fun holiday, isn’t it? I mean, when else would you choose to eat so many green foods? Foods like green beer and green cake and these St Patrick’s Day Cupcakes! Learn to make them for yourself with step-by-step instructions.

Why You’ll Love This Recipe

This St. Patrick’s Day cupcake recipe:

• is quick and easy to make
• doesn’t require fancy equipment or hard-to-find ingredients
• is totally adaptable to any dietary restrictions or allergies

St. Patrick’s Day Cupcake Ingredients

• Devil’s Food cake mix: you’ll also need the ingredients listed on the cake mix box – usually vegetable oil, eggs, and water.
• White icing/frosting: thick, vanilla-flavored frosting will work best.
• Hershey’s Cookie Layer Crunch bars: or you can use Andes Mints!
• Shamrock cupcake toppers: the perfect cupcake decoration for St. Patrick’s Day.

Variations

• Mint: add a teaspoon of peppermint extract to your cupcake batter before baking.
• Chocolate cupcakes: use chocolate frosting instead of vanilla/white frosting.
• Embrace the green: mix 2-5 drops of green food coloring into the vanilla frosting.
• Varied frosting: try chocolate frosting, mint frosting, buttermilk frosting, mint chocolate frosting, buttercream frosting, or cream cheese frosting.
• Crazy toppings: add toppings like green and gold sprinkles, peanut butter cups, marshmallows, pistachios, M&Ms®, fondant, chocolate chips, powdered sugar, candy, or anything else your heart desires!

St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes Instructions

Cook the cupcakes

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a 12-cup cupcake pan with liners (preferably green ones!).
3. Prepare the Devil’s Food cake mix according to the directions on the box. Pour the mixture into the cupcake liners.
4. Bake the cupcakes in the oven as long as directed on the box (usually 15 minutes) or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a cupcake comes out clean.
5. Let the cupcakes cool.

Decorate the cupcakes

1. Frost the top of the cupcakes with your white frosting.
2. Chop up the Hershey’s Cookie Layer Crunch Bars (or grab your Andes Mints) and sprinkle them on top of the frosted cupcakes. 
3. Place a Shamrock topper in the middle and serve!

Serving Suggestions

I don’t know about you, but I love to have something sweet and refreshing to drink while I eat chocolate. That’s why I’m glad I have all these great drinks to go with these St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes!

• Caramel Frappuccino®
• Coconut Rum Hot Cocoa
• Peach Lemonade
• Butterscotch Hot Chocolate
• Pumpkin Spice Smoothie
• Thin Mint Hot Chocolate
• Peach Smoothie
• Orange Hot Chocolate

FAQs

What’s the best way to store these St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes?

You can put your leftover St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days!

Can I make a different flavored cupcake?

Of course! You could make regular chocolate, vanilla, or even red velvet cupcakes to go with this recipe.

Dietary Considerations

If you’ve been visiting Home Made Lovely for a while, you’ll know that my family and I have a lot of food allergies. So, I do my best to make sure almost every recipe I post has alternatives to avoid major food allergens. This St. Patrick’s Day cupcake recipe is already nut, sesame, and soy free. It can be made:

• Gluten-free: use a gluten-free cake mix and Andes Mints instead of Hershey’s cookie bars.
• Dairy-free: use dairy-free frosting and dark chocolate (or any other chocolate that has no dairy).
• Vegan: use an egg replacer when making the cake mix, try a vegan frosting (you may have to make one yourself), and replace the Hershey’s cookie bars with vegan chocolate.

More Fun Dessert Recipes

• Apple Fritters
• No-Bake Cake Pops
• Oven S’mores
• Poke Cake with Jello
• Easter Rice Krispie Treats

More St. Patrick’s Day Food Ideas

• St. Patrick’s Day Irish Pasta
• Slow Cooker Beef Stew
• Sweet Potato Topped Shepherd’s Pie
• Traditional Shepherd’s Pie

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St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes

Yield: 12 cupcakes

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Celebrate the luck of the Irish and St. Patrick with these St. Patrick's Day Cupcakes.

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Ingredients

• 1 box Devil's Food cake mix (and the ingredients listed on the box you choose)
• White Icing
• Crushed Hershey's Cookie Layer Crunch Bars - or you can use Andes Mints!
• Shamrock Cupcake Toppers

Instructions

Cook the Cupcakes

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
2. Line a 12-cup cupcake pan with liners (preferably green ones!).
3. Prepare the Devil’s Food cake mix according to the directions on the box. Pour the mixture into the cupcake liners.
4. Bake the cupcakes in the oven as long as directed on the box (usually 15 minutes) or until a toothpick inserted in the middle of a cupcake comes out clean.
5. Let the cupcakes cool.

Decorate the Cupcakes

1. Frost the top of the cupcakes with your white frosting.
2. Chop up the Hershey’s Cookie Layer Crunch Bars (or grab your Andes Mints) and sprinkle them on top of the frosted cupcakes. 
3. Place a Shamrock topper in the middle and serve!

Nutrition Information:

Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1
Amount Per Serving: Calories: 214Total Fat: 4gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 2gCholesterol: 1mgSodium: 354mgCarbohydrates: 43gFiber: 1gSugar: 24gProtein: 2g

This website provides approximate nutrition information for convenience and as a courtesy only. Nutrition data is gathered primarily via Nutrifox.

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What green things do you eat or drink for St. Patrick’s Day?