Chocolate, Cream Cheese and Mint Cupcake

This year I entered a vibe because of Saint Patrick’s Day (St. Patrick’s Day), Irish patron saint celebrated on March 17. It started as a Catholic holiday, but over time the connection became greater with Irish culture in general.

I didn’t quite understand the religious relationship he made Saint Patrick to turn they are. From what I looked for, he had been captured and turned into a slave in Ireland, he managed to escape after 6 years. He returned to the country as a bishop and in his lessons he used the three leaf clover (Shamrock) to teach the principle of the holy trinity.

Anyway, I really like the festival. So, I decided to do cupcakes with the date as the theme. The ideal would be to do something with Irish beer (half-baked, by the way), but I wanted something more cute sweet.

I married one cupcake de chocolate com frosting cream cheese classic with a thread of Mint liquor because of the radioactive green it has. And yes, the liquor alone feels like eating dente pastebut as a final flavoring it is softer.

I do not recommend adding the liqueur to the frosting, even in a small amount it was enough to soften it to the point of preventing modeling with the piping tip. The coloring is delicate because it’s just a drizzle of liquor, you can use food coloring, but I didn’t want something that gaudy.

Oh yes, I use liquor, so there is alcohol. If children are going to eat, the quantity is small. But it can be removed, and instead use mint essence no frosting (the amount will be very small) and green food coloring to give the tone, I believe it will not change the consistency. It is worth remembering that the cupcake (pasta) is not cloyingly sweet.

The inspiration of tags came from Bakerella (Queen of Cakepops). These are ~4cm (~1-1/2 inch) circles cut with a paper punch (paper punch) the same size, and the smaller holes with a 1/8 inch to fit the lollipop stick. A miss B use a punch drop-shaped pliers to make these holes, but as I already had the 1/8 I kept it. Not to mention that in the country these tools for scrapbook e cia They’re kind of affectionate. So use what we have.

Saint Patrick Tags (in .PDF), within the file there are 3 sheets: two making the best use of the internal space (to generate more tags/sheet) and one with 12 tags, which is normally the number of cupcakes in the pans. I recommend that you print on heavyweight paper, I believe that between 90-180g/m² is enough.

Are you excited about the project? There’s still time, huh? To see more photos: St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes.