Edible St. Patrick's Day Craft Ideas
Sugar Cookie Shamrocks
Mix up a batch of sugar cookie dough and use cookie cutters to cut out shamrock shapes. Add food coloring to the mix before baking to create green shamrocks or frost the baked cookies with white frosting and dust them with green sugar crystals or sprinkles.
Rainbow Cupcakes
Divide prepared white cake mix in to six separate bowls. Add a different food coloring for each color of the rainbow to the six bowls and mix the batter well. Feel free to add more dye to create darker colors if you like. Layer the different colors in to muffin tins and bake as directed on the cake mix packaging. Top the cooled cupcakes with whipped cream or butter cream frosting.
Frosted Irish Flags
Prepare a package of sugar cookie mix as directed on the packaging for rollout cookies. Separate the dough in to three sections. Mix several drops of green food coloring in to one section of dough and orange food coloring in to a different section. Roll out each color of dough in to long rectangles. Press the pieces together to create a large flag with green on the left, white in the center and orange on the right. Cut the dough in to small flags and bake as directed on the cookie mix package.
Pot of Gold
Fill your own pot of gold with delicious Jell-O Jigglers. Prepare yellow Jell-O as directed on the package and allow it to harden. Cut out coin shapes in different sizes using round cookie cutters. Place the "coins" inside a hollowed lime or a small decorative dish. Top your pot of gold with whipped topping or Cool-Whip.
Shamrock Pretzels
Use refrigerated bread stick dough to create shamrock shaped pretzels for a fun St. Patrick's Day treat. Arrange the dough in to shamrock shapes and decorate them with green sugar sprinkles or tint kosher salt with green food coloring. Bake the pretzels as directed on the can.
Sources:
Family Fun Magazine: St. Patrick's Day Crafts & Recipes Gallery
http://familyfun.go.com/st-patricks-day/st-patricks-day-848733/view-all/
Kaboose: St. Patrick's Day Recipes & Crafts
http://recipes.kaboose.com/holidays/st-patricks-day-recipes/st-patricks-day-recipes.html
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