Whether you’re Irish or not, it’s always fun to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day! After the kids check their leprechaun traps to see if they’ve caught the elusive leprechaun, it’s great to start the day with a festive breakfast.
If you are looking for a magical St. Patrick’s Day breakfast idea, we have you covered. We typically don’t do an authentic Irish breakfast. We go more with the theme of green food, rainbows and pots of gold. My kids love it! It is a St. Patrick’s Day tradition they look forward to each year.
Hosting a St. Paddy’s brunch? This also makes a perfect St. Patrick’s Day brunch idea. You can even put together the cutest St. Patrick’s brunch board with these same ingredients.
In this post, I’ll share all the details of what we include in our St. Paddy’s Day breakfast, the supplies you’ll need, and how to prepare each part.
St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Ingredients and Supplies:
St. Patrick’s Day Waffle Shamrock Ingredients and Supplies
- Cooking spray
- Waffle ingredients
- Green food coloring
- Single heart shaped waffle iron or five heart shaped waffle iron – we use our single heart for Valentine’s Day and St. Patrick’s Day – win! If you don’t have one, you can use a regular waffle iron and heart shaped cookie cutter or you can cut the waffle quarter pieces into hearts using kitchen scissors or a knife.
- Pancakes work great too, you can either make the pancakes using a heart shaped pancake ring or cut hearts out of green pancakes using a cookie cutter
Shamrock Butter Supplies-(make ahead of time)
- Softened butter
- Shamrock silicone molds
St. Patrick’s Day Pots of Gold Ingredients
- Whipped cream
- Small Kettles/Pots
St. Patrick’s Day Fruit Rainbow Ingredients
- Strawberries or red raspberries
- Oranges or cantaloupe
- Pineapple or bananas
- Kiwi fruit – you could also use green grapes or honeydew
- Blueberries
- Purple grapes
- Mini marshmallows
St. Patrick’s Day “Magical” Green Milk Ingredients
- Milk of choice or water if your kids don’t drink milk
- Green food dye
- Green cup or green napkin to put under clear cup to camouflage the food dye
St. Patrick’s Day Breakfast Directions
Shamrock Waffle Directions
You can make the waffles the morning of or make them a day ahead of time and store them in the refrigerator. If you make them ahead of time, just put them in the toaster or toaster oven to heat them up before serving.
In a mixing bowl, prepare your shamrock waffle batter according to your favorite recipe or premade waffle mix. Add drops of green food coloring and mix well. Adjust the color intensity to your preference.
Spray your waffle iron with cooking spray, add the amount of batter and cook the waffles according to your waffle maker’s instructions.
Make enough waffles so that each person has three hearts to make a shamrock – or four if they would want a lucky four leaf clover.
To make the stems, you will need an extra waffle (or more depending on how many shamrock waffles you need to cut the stems.) Just cut a waffle into strips to make the shamrock stems.
Shamrock Butter Directions
For the shamrock butter, fill up your shamrock silicone molds with softened butter and freeze until you’re ready to use them so they keep their shape. Note: The mold I used had a tiny peg in the top of the shamrock to create a hole, I just snipped that little piece off with scissors before filling it with butter. I couldn’t find a mold without the hole so this was an easy fix.
When you are ready to remove the butter from the mold, remove the stem part carefully. If it happens to break, you can “glue” it back together with some softened butter.
St. Patrick’s Day Pots of Gold Directions
Purchase your pots ahead of time. The ones I linked are food safe. If you don’t use those, just make sure the ones you get are food safe. Just before serving your breakfast, fill the pots with whipped cream and sprinkle the tops with gold sanding sugar and/or spray with gold shimmer spray.
You can always set out whipped cream, sanding sugar and gold spray and allow your kids to fill their pots with the “gold” themselves. Double the fun!
Fruit Rainbow Prep Directions
Another thing you can do ahead of time is prepare the fruit for the fruit rainbow by washing, peeling, slicing, chopping whatever ingredients you choose to use from the list of ingredients. To save time, you could purchase fruits already chopped from the store.
Magical Milk Directions
I always put a dot of green food dye in the bottom of the glasses so that when we add milk the kids see the milk “magically” turn from white to green. To camouflage the dye I will either use a green cup or set a glass cup on a green napkin. My kids have now figured out my secret, but still want to keep the tradition and watch the milk turn green.
Plate the Breakfast or Create a St. Patrick’s Day Shamrock Breakfast Board
On the morning of St. Patrick’s day you can either plate up the breakfast for each child OR you can put together a St. Patrick’s Day breakfast board so the kids can create their own Shamrock breakfast.
Putting together the St. Patrick’s Day waffle board would also be a hit to serve at or take to a St. Patrick’s Day brunch.
We hope you and your family love this breakfast idea and that it adds to the magic of your Saint Patrick’s Day traditions!
If you like this idea, you may also like our St. Patrick’s Day appetizer in this post.
For another fun St. Patrick’s Day craft or gift idea, check out our post on how to make a mini/personal paper bag rainbow pinata. We all know leprechauns LOVE rainbows!
