Irish Baking for St. Patrick’s Day

You’re in luck this St. Patrick’s Day because we’ve rounded up all the recipes you’ll need to get your Irish on. Each dish packs a punch of traditional Irish flair, with plenty of stout, soda bread, and natural green color to spare. From a delicious chocolate stout cake and Maple-and-Beer Glazed Doughnuts to brilliant green Matcha Macarons filled with Baileys buttercream, these delicious baked goods are the real pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

1. Matcha Macarons with Baileys Original Irish Cream Buttercream Filling 

Amisha Gurbani (of The Jam Lab blog) combines drinks and dessert with her macarons sandwiched with a Baileys Original Irish Cream Buttercream Filling. The addition of earthy matcha powder gives a festive green color to the macaron shells without overpowering the taste.

2. Rosemary Parmesan Soda Bread

The divine pairing of fresh Parmesan and rosemary strikes a perfect balance between the simple ingredients and deliciously complex flavors in this savory take on tradition.

 3. Fig Brownies with Sour Beer Caramel

Though fresh figs are delicious gems in their own right, there is much to be gained by baking with the dried form. We like to add them to fudgy brownies to impart an intense, caramel-like sweetness. Here, crystallized ginger and our Sour Beer Caramel add complementary spicy and tangy counter notes. 

4. Pistachio Babka  

Use our classic Babka recipe and add our pistachio filling to bring some color and crunch to our favorite twisted and braided bread. Check out our new Babka Back Page column in our March/April 2018 Issue!

5. Maple-and-Beer Glazed Doughnuts

For milder beer flavor, brush hot beer doughnuts in melted butter and toss in a brown bag with lots of cinnamon sugar before topping with maple glaze. 

Photography by Matt Armendariz / Recipe Development and Food Styling by Marian Cooper Cairns

6. Cocoa-Stout Cake with Malted Buttercream

Beer isn’t just for drinking. Chocolate, stout, and malt are a stellar match made in heaven in this strikingly tall 2-layer cake. To get more recipes like this, look to our baking with beer feature. 

7. Matcha-Almond Muffins with Black Sesame Streusel

Green tea fans rejoice! Now you can have your tea and eat it, too. These tender green tea muffins are not only visually striking; they are positively delicious. The savory black sesame streusel perfectly off-sets the sweet matcha. 

8. Apple Guinness Cheddar Soda Bread 

It’s a given: you can’t have Irish soda bread without Guinness. Along with incorporating the signature dry stout, this Apple Guinness Cheddar Soda Bread pairs the earthy tang of sharp Cheddar cheese with the tart crunch of Granny Smith apples.

9. Guinness Stout Cake

In this stout cake, the combination of the malt and coffee flavors of this stout beer pairs seamlessly with Bourbon Caramel and toasted Meringue. 

10. Walnut Golden Raisin Soda Bread 

Earthy walnuts and sweet golden raisins add texture and a hint of sweetness to this classic, which gets extra depth from whole wheat flour as well as sunflower and pumpkin seeds.

11. Matcha Battenberg Cake

A perfect dessert for anyone who can’t decide on their favorite flavor, the Battenberg is constructed of two different cakes and arranged in an iconic check pattern. For our tea take, matcha and almond sponge cakes form the signature checkered pattern, with a layer of apricot jam sandwiched between the cakes and a cover of homemade marzipan to seal it all together.