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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Joyce
Irish Soda Bread, with golden raisins or currents. I used to make corned beef and cabbage every St Pat's day too. I'm vegetarian now,so no more corned beef but the soda bread is still a winner.
Anonymous
I don't make anything special for St. Patrick's day now that my kids are grown. We used to do fun projects in the kitchen, but that's was long ago.
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Anonymous
I always bake shamrock cookies or make some sort of cupcakes for St. Patrick's Day for my kids. Love your edible cups. The smiling shamrocks are just adorable.
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Jenn
We start the day with lucky charms in some green milk. Dinner is corned beef and cabbage.
Sue
I like to make all sorts of sweet treats!
Your edible glasses are amazing and adorable!
KelliT
I love making a Reuben crescent bake, w/ 1,000 Island dressing, beef, & sauerkraut layered w/ Swiss cheese inside crescent crust. It is scrumptious! And it wouldn't be complete without lime finger jello, cut into shamrocks (using heart cutters). Cute edible cups, by the way!
Lisa @ Flour Me With Love
This is such a creative idea! Thank you so much for sharing at Mix it up Monday and I hope you'll stop back soon 🙂
Big Momma
What a cute idea to make a cup! I usually make bento lunch for my kiddo so for the holiday we decorate her lunch, last year made rainbow cupcakes for St Pattys day.
Jennie
We are vegetarians, so no corned beef and cabbage... I will probably make some Irish Soda Bread, and maybe some mint brownies..?
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Sunnie
I havent done too much before, this year I want to make leprachaun traps though!
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Mary Lea
I make green pancakes...served up with green syrup (food color and corn syrup warmed up!)
Anonymous
I usually make ham and cabbage. The cups are adorable. Michelle_e_obrienATyahooDOTcom
Melissa Wolfe
I make rainbow layered cupcakes for my kids. They look so impressive and I tell them that if they bit into them and see the all the rainbow colors, they will have a lucky day!
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We always have corned beef and cabbage.
Sara Thompson
We go all out - corned beef, cabbage, bread pudding, whiskey pie. I usually make colcannon or mashed potatoes and then a cabbage dish or two depending on my mood and what's available at the grocery store.
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Kathy
I don't make festive food for St. Patrick's Day