St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes & Milkshakes

Here at The Mint Sweater, we love any excuse to get together with the girls and enjoy some quality girl talk time with a few homemade treats! This year we decided to make St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes & Milkshakes using lucky charm marshmallows!

Last year we made a St. Patrick’s Day Lucky Charm Cake, and this year we use that same recipe to make cupcakes.

Today, on the blog we are sharing how you can create these fun St. Patrick’s Day inspired cupcakes and milkshakes to make with your friends this lucky holiday.

The trick to making fun and festive cupcakes (and milkshakes too!) is finding tasty and decorative toppings. Sprinkles can be found nearby at your local Target or Michaels. As for the marshmallows, definitely purchase the Lucky Charm Cereal (this year they had a special edition) ahead of time and separate the marshmallows from the cereal.

Our best tip: Allow the girls to decorate their own cupcakes and shakes for some good ol’ quality time together.

Some of our favorite toppings:

Sugar Sprinkles (light green, dark green)

Lucky Charms Marshmallows

Cotton Candy

Crushed Caramel Sprinkles

Gold Rock Candy

For the girls we decided to spoil them good!

So instead of just making cupcakes, we added homemade milkshakes to the mix.

Milkshakes

We made two kinds of milkshakes. One, a traditional vanilla milkshake. The other, we took a traditional vanilla milkshake and instead of using plain milk, we let some of the lucky charm cereal marshmallows soak in the milk first to give it that vibrant green color. With the marshmallows still in the milk we pour it over vanilla ice cream and blended! Yumm.

Milkshake tip: make it minty by using mint chocolate chip ice cream or by adding a couple drops of peppermint essential oils (or fresh mint).

Milkshake rims:

To really make the milkshakes festive we decorate the rims of our glasses using cupcake icing. Over the icing we either used sugar to create a sugar rim or the lucky charms cereal marshmallows.

Holidays are the perfect excuse to host a date with the girls. Making cupcakes and milkshakes are a great way to enjoy a homemade treat and spend time together.

We hope these cupcakes and milkshakes inspire you to host a get together with your girls and allow these entertaining and delicious treats spoil your girls.

For the cupcake recipe head over to our post, St. Patrick’s Day Lucky Charm Cake Recipe. Baking time and temperature will be the same just don’t forget to test with a toothpick to make sure they are done!

Milkshake recipe below.

St. Patrick's Day Milkshake Recipe

This St. Patrick's Day holiday, entertain your girls with this fun and festive milkshake recipe. Homemade milkshakes are always a real treat. Make this recipe a moment of bonding, quality time, together by having the girls each decorate their own milkshake! 

Optional to add Marshmallow Vodka for the perfect Girls Night! 

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Servings 2 Milkshakes

Ingredients

  

Vanilla Milkshakes

• 1 cup Milk
• 2 cups Vanilla Ice Cream
• 1 tspn. Vanilla Extract
• 1 shot Marshmallow Vodka *optional
• 1 can Whip Cream

Mint Green Vanilla Milkshakes

• 1 cup Milk
• 1/2 cup Lucky Charm Cereal Marshmallows *marshmallows only
• 2 cups Vanilla Ice Cream *optional to use mint chocolate chip ice cream
• 1 tspn Vanilla Extract
• 1 shot Marshmallow Vodka *optional
• 1 can Whip Cream

Instructions

 

Vanilla Milkshakes

• Scoop ice cream into blender.
• Pour milk and vanilla extract into blender. (optional) Pour shot of Marshmallow Vodka into blender.
• Blend.
• (Optional) Rim the glasses with cupcake icing and toppings of choice.
• Pour milkshake into glass.
• Top with whip cream, sprinkles, decorative toppings.

Mint Green Vanilla Milkshakes

• Scoop Ice Cream into blender.
• Pour milk, marshmallow mixture into blender.
• Add vanilla extract to blender.
• (Optional) Add peppermint extract or fresh mint into blender.

  (Optional) Add Marshmallow Vodka into blender.
• Blend.
• (Optional) Rim glasses with cupcake icing and toppings of choice. 
• Pour Milkshake into glasses
• Top with whip cream, sprinkles, and decorative toppings. 

Notes

Depending on thickness preferred of your milkshake start off with 1 cup of milk, but then add 1 tablespoon more until you reach desired thickness. 

Make sure your ice cream is soft, but still frozen enough to blend smoothly and still not melt too quickly. 

This milkshake recipe is basic, perfect for flexibility to add ingredients to make it your own. With the more toppings you add the more simple the milkshake recipe will compliment the toppings without adding flavor overload.