Happy St. Patrick’s Day, one and all!
I am 25% Irish (on my mother’s side), so this is a pretty big holiday to me. I’ve been baking since yesterday and have barely stopped. My two staples on St. Patrick’s Day are Irish car bomb cupcakes and Irish soda bread. I make both.
The car bomb cupcakes are a ton of work, but soooo worth it, and everyone likes them. The best recipe I’ve seen for them can be found here. If you try them, I would recommend making a double-batch of the cupcakes, and one batch each of frosting and ganache. The quantities in the recipe are more than enough for two batches of cupcakes.
I’ll share my Irish soda bread recipe.
Honestly Irish Soda Bread
5 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 tbsp. baking powder
1 tbsp. baking soda
1 stick of butter, cubed.
1 tsp. salt
2 cups raisins (or Craisins, as I did not have raisins and thought what the hell)
3 tbsp. caraway seeds
2 and 1/3 cups buttermilk
1 egg
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spread some vegetable or olive oil on the bottom of a cast iron skillet (or grease a cake pan, your choice). Mix together dry ingredients. Blend in the butter until the mixture is crumbly. Add raisins and caraway seeds. In a separate bowl, combine buttermilk and egg, whisk together, then pour into dry mixture and stir until well blended. Put into skillet, bake for 1 hour 15 minutes or until lightly browned on top. Serve with butter.
And the luck of the Irish is absolutely with me today! My old car sold for $3,000, which is twice was I was hoping for!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you and yours!
Honestly, Megan 