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.
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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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These are the cutest!! We make the traditional Irish American corned beef & cabbage
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I usually make green butter cookies with my cookie press but I love shamrock shakes and plan to try to recreate them this year at home.
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Shasha says
I made a shamrock cake last year. This year I am making vanilla cupcakes and I am going to make the batter green with food coloring, and use vanilla icing. I might also make these to go along with the cupcakes. Absolutely love the idea.
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Hilary says
This will be my first year doing it. My daughter is finally old enough to enjoy it so I will be making a variety of green things all day.
Alicia Yamashita says
Edible cups?! No way! That's awesome!
Tiffany Yang says
Those cups are super cute! If you gave me a cup of that, I don't know if I want to eat the cup first or drink the milk shake first :p
Wendy says
I like to make things green - juice, bread, cookies. Mostly treats.
DB says
We make mint chocolate chip milkshakes. My boys favorite!
Catie says
I personally never have, but my mother always makes green mashed potatoes!
Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust says
I love to bake green desserts. Or anything mint! These cups are beyond cute. Your creativity is amazing!
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kronca says
I don't usually make anything special for St. Patricks Day. But we do decorate alot and try to catch a leprechan.
amy beth marantino says
i make green pancakes
Sugar Butter Baby says
I try to make festive foods for St. Patrick's Day, Like Lucky Charm Cupcakes or Guiness Cupcakes, but usually end up buying green bagels and cream cheese from the local bagel place.
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