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Showing posts with label St.Patrickes Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label St.Patrickes Day. Show all posts

Friday, March 16, 2012

St. Patrick's Day

This is one of my Favorite holidays and times of the year! Tulips are in bloom, warm weather is on its way! I am pretty sure there is a lot of Irish in me, white skin, blue eyes, light hair and my family loves their alcohol! I am not a religious person by any means, even though this holiday's foundation is built from Saint Patrick bring Christianity to Ireland! The main reason I like it is that they celebrate it by eating a feast of yummy food and drinking alcohol! Every one is just a wee bit Irish on St. Paties day!
This year Mike and I are celebrating with a little pairti at me Daid house with corn beef and cabbage, Irish car bombs and of course my contribution cupcakes...not just any old cupcakes but...

Chocolate stout filled w/ Irish Whiskey Ganache, & topped w/ Baily's Irish Cream frosting!

Yes its so amazing it needed to be in bold underlined print! If you want the recipe and to see how they turned out it will be on my Whats Cooking page under March 17th! One cute little romantic side note is I had my 1st kiss with Mike on St. Paties day 2011, Guess its the luck of the Irish ;)!!

Monday, March 12, 2012

Rainy/Windy Oregon Day

Sound familiar? Yes another nasty day here in beautiful Oregon. AHHHHHH where is Spring already I want some sun any sun, cold sun is just fine! But there is good news..Mike and I were running around doing our errands, well and our power went out for 3hrs so it forced us to go do something. As we were running around Mike found a shamrock cookie cutter that he just had to have! He is just a giant kid at heart its so cute! So as the story goes we got home put everything away and made Irish Whiskey sugar cookies with Bailey's Irish Cream frosting! Yes in spirit of St .Patricks day! Oh did they turn out Om Nom Nom!


Rolled sugar cookies with a twist!

1/4 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup white sugar
1egg
1/2 teaspoon Irish Whiskey
1-1/4 cup All purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon backing powder
1/4 teaspoon salt


Cream together butter and white sugar.
Add in egg and blend well, while still mixing on low add in Irish Whiskey.
Add all dry ingredient and mix.
Cover and Chill dough for a least 1hr.

Preheat Oven 400 degrees
Roll dough out on floured surface about 1/2 inch thick and cut into shapes
Place cookies 1inch a part and bake for 6-8mins let cool before frosting.



Bailey's Irish cream Frosting

• 1cup confectioners’ sugar         
 • 1/4 unsalted butter, room temperature
 • 1T Baileys Irish Cream
Cream butter untill fluffy
Add in confectioners sugar a little at a time
Than add in Baileys Irish Cream
Oh yes & 5 drops or so of green food coloring!