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    Home » Recipes » St. Patrick's Day

    Shamrock Shakes

    Modified: Sep 5, '23 · Published: Mar 2, '12 · By: Beth Klosterboer · Commission earned on paid or sponsored links.

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    Serve your minty green Shamrock Shakes in a fun white chocolate cup for St. Patrick's Day. Each edible cup is decorated with a smiley face shamrock. They look and taste sweet!

    shamrock shakes served in white chocolate cups decorated with smiley face shamrocks

    Copycat Shamrock Shakes are a popular frozen treat to serve for St. Patrick's Day and I thought I'd make my version of this drink a bit more fun. 

    I decided to serve the peppermint milkshakes in white chocolate cups that are decorated with cute smiley face shamrocks. 

    Once the milkshake is gone, you can enjoy snacking on the white chocolate cup.

    green St. Patrick's Day shamrock shakes in a smiling shamrock cup

    In the tutorial below, I will show you step-by-step how to make your smiling shamrock cups. Then, you will find the shamrock shake recipe in the recipe card below.

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    Before you begin, if you aren't experienced with working with confectionery coating/candy melts or modeling chocolate, read my chocolate-making tips tutorial.

    Ingredients

    White Chocolate Cups

    • 16 ounces melted white confectionery coating/candy melts
    • white modeling chocolate or fondant to decorate cups
    • green food coloring
    • black food coloring
    • powdered sugar to dust work surface

    Peppermint Milkshakes

    • 4 cups vanilla ice cream
    • 1 ½ cups milk
    • 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
    • ½ teaspoon green food coloring

    Supplies

    • 3 plastic cups with a completely smooth interior
    • pastry brush
    • blender
    • rolling pin
    • shamrock cookie cutter
    • pizza wheel or knife
    • #6 pastry decorating tips and #12 round pastry tip
    • fine tipped paint brush (food-use-only brush)
    • black food coloring marker

    Instructions

    brush the inside of a plastic cup with a layer of white candy melts
    • Use a pastry brush to "paint" a thin layer of melted white confectionery coating inside your cups.
    • Wipe off the rim with your finger.
    • Place in the freezer for 5 minutes. Remove as soon as the candy hardens or your cups will crack.
    • Repeat with remaining cups.
    making a white chocolate cup using a plastic cup as a mold
    • Remove the cups from the freezer and let them sit at room temperature for 5 minutes. You may need to reheat your confectionery coating for 10 seconds in the microwave if it has gotten too thick before continuing.
    • Pour some coating into the cup and swirl it around so that it completely coats the inside of the cup. Turn the cup upside down and shake it allowing the excess candy coating to fall out.
    • Wipe the rim of the cup with your finger and set the cup immediately in the freezer. Freeze for 10-12 minutes. Set the timer; if the cups get too cold, the candy coating can crack.
    • Repeat with the other two cups. Reserve the remaining candy coating.
    pull the hardened white chocolate cup out of the plastic cup
    • Once the candy coating is set, you can easily just pull it out of the plastic cup.
    • Allow the edible cups to sit at room temperature for 15 minutes before decorating.
    cut shamrocks and eyes out of modeling chocolate and attach them to the chocolate cups
    • Tint some modeling chocolate green with the food coloring.
    • Dust your work surface with powdered sugar. If you roll out the modeling chocolate on a silicone mat
    • Roll out green modeling chocolate to 1/16" thickness. Cut out shamrock shapes using a cookie cutter. Cut 6 long strips using a pizza wheel or knife.
    • Color a small amount of white modeling chocolate black. Roll it out and cut out small circles using the tip of a #6 pastry decorating tip. Roll out some white modeling chocolate and cut out small circles using the tip of a #12 pastry decorating tip.
    • Lightly brush some water on the back of a small black circle and press it onto a white circle to create an eye. Repeat. Lightly brush some water on the back of the white circles and press them onto the green shamrocks.
    • Use a black food coloring marker to draw on a smile and some eyebrows or eyelashes. Alternatively, you could paint black food coloring onto the shamrocks with a fine-tip paintbrush.
    • Reheat your remaining confectionery coating in the microwave for 5-15 seconds. Use a fine-tip paint brush to brush some coating on the back side of your decorations and attach them to the edible cups.
    White chocolate smiling shamrock cups filled with homemade shamrock shakes.

    Your edible cups are now ready to be filled with milkshakes. Aren't they fun?

    To make your milkshakes

    • Combine ice cream, milk, peppermint extract, and green food coloring in a blender.
    • Place the lid on the blender and blend on high speed until smooth.
    • Pour immediately into edible glasses and serve.
    Green shamrock shakes spilling over the side of a smiling shamrock candy cup.

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    Recipe

    shamrock shakes served in white chocolate cups decorated with smiley face shamrocks
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    Shamrock Shakes
    Prep Time
    5 mins
     

    Flavor vanilla ice cream with peppermint extract and add green food coloring to make this frozen St. Patrick's Day milkshake.

    Course: Dessert
    Cuisine: American
    Keyword: milkshakes, shamrock shake, St. Patrick's Day recipe
    Servings: 3
    Calories: 244 kcal
    Author: Beth Klosterboer
    Ingredients
    • 4 cups vanilla ice cream
    • 1 ½ cups milk
    • 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
    • ½ teaspoon green food coloring
    Instructions
    1. Combine the vanilla ice cream, milk, peppermint extract, and a few drops of green food coloring in a blender.

    2. Place the lid on the blender and blend on high speed until smooth.
    3. Pour immediately into glasses and serve.

    Recipe Notes

    See the step-by-step tutorial for instructions on making edible white chocolate candy cups decorated with smiley face shamrocks. 

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    1. Lindy@Itsy Bitsy Paper says

      March 03, 2012 at 12:37 am

      I love this project. I hope you will stop by and link up to my St. Patty's Day Project Parade.

      Reply
    2. Chonte' says

      March 02, 2012 at 9:59 pm

      i make green sugar cookies with my little girl. she likes to add the sprinkles. 🙂

      Reply
    3. Melissa says

      March 02, 2012 at 8:04 pm

      Those are awesome! What a creative idea to make edible cups! Yum!

      Reply
    4. lanelynn says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:53 pm

      Can I enter even though I live in England? I know I always ask, but I don't want to put you to any trouble 🙂
      I follow on google friend connect and I like on facebook xxx

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      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer says

        March 02, 2012 at 8:46 pm

        Unfortunately, there are two reasons I have found that prohibit me from allowing people from outside of the United States to enter my blog giveaways:
        1. Recently I did some research on running giveaways and found that there are so many laws regarding giveaways around the world that I couldn't possibly learn about all of them.
        2. This contest in particular is sponsored and they don't want the expense of shipping a prize outside the U.S. as it is very expensive.

        I am really sorry, because I have so many readers from other countries and I'd love to be able to include you all in my giveaways, but it just isn't possible.

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    5. sandy says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:38 pm

      i dont really make anything for st. Patrick's day i do wear green!! lol i follow everything from your site very nice. Have to try the chocolate cups very good idea

      Reply
    6. Tracee says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:19 pm

      I generally make corned beef and cabbage for dinner and a nice Irish soda bread. As for dessert I usually make green peppermint cupcakes.

      Reply
    7. MaryAnnC says

      March 03, 2012 at 12:04 am

      I add green food coloring to whatever food I make that day. Green potatoes-yum!

      Reply
    8. Trish - Sweetology101 says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:03 pm

      is it terrible that I just want to quit my job and recreate all your fun stuff!

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer says

        March 02, 2012 at 7:25 pm

        Nope, not terrible at all! Sounds like fun:)

        Reply
    9. Holly says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:03 pm

      Since we have an engineering college where I live, and St. Pat is the patron saint of engineers, you'd better believe we do St. Pat's right! This year is the 104th anniversary of MS&T having a St. Patrick's Day celebration. It's also my son's birthday, he was born on March 17th 4 years ago. We like to make EVERYTHING green. We make shamrock cookies, green beer, green eggs, we even paint the streets green!

      Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer says

        March 02, 2012 at 7:21 pm

        Sounds like great fun. Happy Birthday to your little boy!

        Reply
      • Beth Jackson Klosterboer says

        March 10, 2012 at 12:49 pm

        Congratulations Holly, you have won a baking kit from McCormick. Please send your mailing address to beth@hungryhappenings.com

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    10. Tamara Stewart says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:00 pm

      These are sooo cute! Going to try and make these for my daycare kiddies. Keep coming with the great ideas Hungry Happenings. Love them 🙂

      Reply
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      March 02, 2012 at 6:47 pm

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    13. Anissa says

      March 02, 2012 at 6:46 pm

      No, I never had but those are just too cute!
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    14. Kristan says

      March 02, 2012 at 6:34 pm

      I love to make mint chocolate truffles out of mint oreo's and cream cheese. MmmMmm!

      Reply
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      March 02, 2012 at 6:16 pm

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    17. Morphine says

      March 02, 2012 at 6:14 pm

      I love to make shamrock shaped cookies and green ice cream!

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      Reply
    18. Kimi says

      March 02, 2012 at 8:21 pm

      We don't usually make anything for St. Patricks day.

      Reply
    19. Jenn252 says

      March 02, 2012 at 7:18 pm

      I like to make corned beef and cabbage but those milkshakes look good!

      Reply
    20. Anonymous says

      March 02, 2012 at 6:12 pm

      I haven't made much for st. patty's day but I want to start 🙂 prob some cupcakes or cookies in st. patty's day theme.

      Oh and I love your milkshake idea!

      Reply
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