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!
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.
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.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
Related Recipes
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Recipe
Flavor vanilla ice cream with peppermint extract and add green food coloring to make this frozen St. Patrick's Day milkshake.
- 4 cups vanilla ice cream
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- ½ teaspoon green food coloring
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Combine the vanilla ice cream, milk, peppermint extract, and a few drops of green food coloring in a blender.
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Place the lid on the blender and blend on high speed until smooth.
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Pour immediately into glasses and serve.
See the step-by-step tutorial for instructions on making edible white chocolate candy cups decorated with smiley face shamrocks.
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Chonte' says
i make green sugar cookies with my little girl. she likes to add the sprinkles. 🙂
Melissa says
Those are awesome! What a creative idea to make edible cups! Yum!
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sandy says
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
Tracee says
I generally make corned beef and cabbage for dinner and a nice Irish soda bread. As for dessert I usually make green peppermint cupcakes.
MaryAnnC says
I add green food coloring to whatever food I make that day. Green potatoes-yum!
Trish - Sweetology101 says
is it terrible that I just want to quit my job and recreate all your fun stuff!
Beth Jackson Klosterboer says
Nope, not terrible at all! Sounds like fun:)
Holly says
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!
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Sounds like great fun. Happy Birthday to your little boy!
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Tamara Stewart says
These are sooo cute! Going to try and make these for my daycare kiddies. Keep coming with the great ideas Hungry Happenings. Love them 🙂
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No, I never had but those are just too cute!
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Kristan says
I love to make mint chocolate truffles out of mint oreo's and cream cheese. MmmMmm!
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I love to make shamrock shaped cookies and green ice cream!
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Kimi says
We don't usually make anything for St. Patricks day.
Jenn252 says
I like to make corned beef and cabbage but those milkshakes look good!
Anonymous says
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!