Fav/Easy/Good Irish Dessert

[Disneylover79]

OK I am making St. Patrick's day dinner at my house this year for the first time. DH wants me to make an Irish dessert. So now I am in search of a GOOD dessert.. I can search recipes all day long but if it is bad recipe and tastes horrible then I don't want to make it for my family.....TIA

 

[Luv'sTink]

http://www.littleshamrocks.com/Irish-Dessert-Recipes.html

Can't vouch for any but here is a website with desserts.....Yum, rice pudding for me!

 

[shortbun]

Been to Ireland, don't remember desserts. I remember Irish coffee that seemed like it was dessert. They make kick bottom Irish cream. I would think some kind of apple betty type thing with cinnamon.

 

[walden]

Bread and Butter Pudding -- don't laugh it can be delicious -- and it is easy! This recipe looks similar to the one I use and even has a whisky sauce, although I don't make it with alcohol myself. You could use soda bread. http://www.irishcentral.com/food-and-drink/Chef-Gilligans-bread-and-butter-pudding-89983617.html

Or Apple Crumble (Apple Crisp) is also nice.

 

[marcyinPA]

My friend gave me a recipe for a green bundt cake (made with pistachio pudding I think) that had chocolate chips in it. If you are interested, I'll hunt the recipe down and post it.

 

[Conservative Hippie]

Bread pudding, apple crisp...or Bailey's Irish cream cheesecake!

I completely forgot St. Patrick's is next week - I need to go get buttermilk so I can start baking soda bread.

 

[bas71873]

Subbing. I'm curious too.

Hey OP, what are you making for dinner. I know I'm going to do green mashed potatoes and green beans, but whatcha doing for your family?

I may just make a white cake, dye it green and slap some chocolate icing on it

 

[Conservative Hippie]

I'm not the OP, but last year I did shepherd's pie. I should have used lamb, but I HATE lamb, so I just did ground beef. This year I'll either do that again or maybe grilled salmon and boiled potatoes. And I'm baking about 6 loaves of Irish soda bread - some for us, and some for gifts.

 

[NotUrsula]

Irish dessert = oxymoron.

Seriously, the Irish traditionally don't much eat desserts except at Christmas, so most "traditional" Irish desserts are really Christmas-themed things, like Christmas Cake (which is fruitcake covered in marzipan and decorated with cutouts to make it look like a yule log.) The only home-made sweets other than fruitcake that I've ever been served in Irish homes are boiled puddings with cream over. They are fond of cookies with tea, though usually store-bought. IME, McVities Chocolate Digestives are usually the after-dinner treat of choice.

Now, candy, that's another story entirely. Candy is popular pretty much everywhere in Ireland and the UK.

 

[The Princess]

I'm just making shamrock sugar cookies with green icing......don't know what I'm making for dinner though.

 

[luvmy3jewels]

We spent last St. Patricks Day in Ireland and had a blast! I'm a little depressed at the thought of spending it at home this year. I think to reminisce a little, I will be fixing guiness stew and soda bread.

To be quite honest my favorite meal that we ate in Dublin was at an Italian restaurant (smoked salmon in a creamy tomato sauce over fettucine). Heaven on a plate, but definitely not your stereotypical "Irish" meal!!

 

[Disneylover79]

Subbing. I'm curious too.

Hey OP, what are you making for dinner. I know I'm going to do green mashed potatoes and green beans, but whatcha doing for your family?

I may just make a white cake, dye it green and slap some chocolate icing on it

OP here... I am making corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots....oh and corn bread

 

[minniebeth]

....oh and corn bread

Do you need a recipe for soda bread? Lol!

 

[Conservative Hippie]

OP here... I am making corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, and carrots....oh and corn bread

My favorite Irish soda bread recipe

 

[pixiewings71]

OP we always make rainbow cupcakes for our dessert on St Pat's Day. We have Irish heritage so I always do the corned beef and cabbage meal and then we do the cupcakes for dessert. The girls love making them and we all love eating them.

 

[charming23]

I am going to make shamrock cookies for dessert. My mom is having eye surgery a few days before so dinner this year will be simple, corned beef sandwiches with sweet potato fries. Neither of us care for cabbage so we decided to save our money and just do sandwiches.

 

[disneychrista]

My favorite Irish soda bread recipe

My understanding is that "traditional" Irish soda bread does not have the raisins or butter.

http://www.sodabread.info

 

[Conservative Hippie]

My understanding is that "traditional" Irish soda bread does not have the raisins or butter.

http://www.sodabread.info

Even though there are raisins/currents in the photo, there are none in the recipe.

Also, I don't claim to have the most traditional soda bread, but it is yummy!

 

[disneychrista]

Even though there are raisins/currents in the photo, there are none in the recipe.

That is funny...from this thread I looked up soda bread and a lot of the recipes did have raisins in them, which I guess is a variation of the soda bread.


Thanks to this thread I know what to serve along with our not so traidtional "Irish" stew next week. And technically our soda bread won't be "traditional" either, since we will be making it vegan.

 

[bas71873]

My favorite Irish soda bread recipe

Thx. Super easy and I'm going to try it