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Leprechaun Hat Shamrock Reveal Cake

February 29, 2020 This post may contain affiliate links.

Not only does this cake look like a Leprechaun Hat, it has green shamrocks hiding inside layers of white cake. This Leprechaun Hat Shamrock Reveal Cake is a perfect dessert for St. Patrick’s Day.

Blow away your family and friends by making this Leprechaun Hat Shamrock Surprise Cake for St. Patrick's Day! It is moist, delicious, and comes with a special surprise inside.

This post was originally posted on March 13, 2014.

Leprechauns were mythical men written about in Irish folklore who were so rich that they had to hide their treasure. If you could find what they had hidden, you would be rich.

Of course, you’d have to find the end of the rainbow and I’m pretty sure that you yourself would need the powers of a faerie in order to do that.

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have magical powers, so instead of chasing Leprechauns all over the countryside, in search of the allusive pot of gold, I decided to make a fun surprise cake instead.

Leprechaun hat cake covered in green fondant is cut to reveal shamrocks inside the white cake layers.

 

It’s perfect for St. Patrick’s Day. The cake looks like a Leprechaun hat on the outside and has green shamrocks hidden on the inside. When you slice into the cake, each piece reveals more shamrocks.

You’ll need a small 1-inch shamrock cookie cutter and two extra deep 8 inch round pans to make this cake along with two white cake mixes and frosting.

I chose to cover my cake with green fondant to give the Leprechaun hat a shiny and smooth finish. I briefly show you below, how I covered my cake with fondant.

green cake batter in bowl next to a cake mix box

Make one cake mix and color it green using Betty Crocker Gel Food Coloring

spreading green cake batter into a jelly roll pan

Spread the batter into a jelly roll pan and bake it in a 350-degree oven for 12-16 minutes. After it cools for a bit, put it in the freezer for an hour.

cake batter in round 8-inch pans

Line two extra deep 8 inch round pans with parchment paper then spray with non-stick baking spray with flour. I actually used two 8 inch springform pans that I lined with non-stick tin foil before spraying.

Just before the green cake is ready to come out of the freezer, make the remaining white cake mix. Pour one cup of batter into each of the round cake pans.

cut shamrocks out of a single layer of cake then arrange in a round pan

Remove green cake from the freezer and use a one-inch shamrock cutter to cut out 38-40 shamrocks. You will have a little less than half of this cake leftover, so enjoy a little snack.

Arrange shamrocks, upside down (with the bottom of the stem facing up) in a circle about an inch from the edge of the pans.

pouring cake batter over top a shamrock-shaped cakes for a surprise cake

Pour the rest of the batter into the pans, covering the shamrocks.

Bake the cakes in a 350-degree oven for 26-32 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

cut domed top off the cakes

As these cakes bake, the batter will puff up in the center and the baked cakes will look pretty funky. It’s alright, as you will just cut off the bumps making each cake level.

frosting layers of cake

Once the cakes are cooled and leveled, you’ll flip one over and put it on a cardboard cake round, spread on some frosting before flipping over the other cake and doing the same.

frosted round layer cake

Frost the entire cake and make it really smooth.

covering a round layer cake with green fondant

Cover the cake with green fondant.

cut a circle out of green fondant to create the base of the Leprechaun hat

Cut out a green fondant hat brim on a cake board or cake plate.

add hat brim to Leprechaun Hat cake

Set the fondant covered cake in the center of the green hat brim. Add a black fondant hat band and make a buckle. You can simply make the buckle out of yellow fondant, or you can spray a white or yellow buckle with gold food coloring spray.

green Leprechaun Hat cake

When the cake is whole, no one will know of the surprise hiding inside.

I originally made this cake for Tablespoon.com but they have removed the recipe, so I added it here. You can find more St. Patrick’s Day recipes on Tablespoon.com.

You can also find a lot of fun St. Patrick’s Day recipes, here.

Fun St. Patrick's Day Recipes and Food Crafts

Filed Under: Decorated Cakes, St. Patrick's Day Recipes Tagged With: Cake, reveal cakes, surprise inside

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  1. Aida@TheCraftingFoodie

    March 14, 2014 at 12:55 am

    Beth,
    I love it so much! The added hat details make it even more special!

    Reply
    • beth

      March 14, 2014 at 1:04 am

      Thanks, Aida. I loved the idea of hiding something under a leprechaun hat.

      Reply
  2. beth

    March 14, 2014 at 1:03 am

    Thanks, I really love how the cake turned out!

    Reply
  3. PapaLos - The Man, The Chef, The Dad

    March 14, 2014 at 3:27 am

    Whoa! That other cake was crazy. This one is insane! Makes me wish I celebrated St. Patrick's Day more. Amazing job!

    Reply
    • beth

      March 17, 2014 at 4:01 pm

      Thanks! This was a really fun cake to make.

      Reply
  4. The Partiologist

    March 14, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    Really Beth, this takes the cake! 🙂 Off to Tablespoon…

    Reply
  5. Linnycakes

    March 15, 2014 at 8:59 am

    I love surprises! How fun it must've been to cut into this cake and see such a fun design. Pinned this!

    Reply
    • beth

      March 17, 2014 at 4:03 pm

      Thanks so much for pining:) It is always fun to see people's reactions when I cut into surprise cakes. I love it!

      Reply
  6. Artsy VaVa

    March 17, 2014 at 3:19 pm

    What a great surprise hidden in the cake! It's gorgeous.

    Reply
    • beth

      March 17, 2014 at 4:03 pm

      Thanks so much!

      Reply
  7. Kersten Lindhardt

    March 17, 2014 at 4:01 pm

    That's so amazing- I'm impressed!

    Reply
  8. Cathy Lallis

    March 18, 2014 at 1:52 am

    Adorable! Happy Saint Pat's Day!

    Reply
    • beth

      March 18, 2014 at 1:53 am

      Happy St. Patty's Day to you too!

      Reply
  9. Sweet Silly Sara

    March 25, 2014 at 3:48 am

    So cute for next St.Patties day. Thanks for sharing another wonderful post with us at Tell it To Me Tuesday!

    Reply
  10. Michael

    February 28, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    I’m looking for the recipe for the Leprechaun Shamrock surprise hat cake, I would like to make it for my job on St. Patricks Day. Can you email me the recipe & directions.

    Thanks
    Michael

    Reply
    • Beth

      February 29, 2020 at 8:58 am

      Hi Michael,
      It looks like Tablespoon took that recipe down, so I went ahead and posted the tutorial here. I don’t have a copy of the actual recipe but I used cake mixes and tubs of Betty Crocker frosting. I hope you have fun making the cake!

      Reply

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