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St. Patrick’s Day Surprise Cupcakes

By: Britni Vigil
2/26/2020Updated: 8/12/2020
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These quick and easy St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes look like a pot of gold and taste absolutely delicious! Make them even easier by using your favorite chocolate cake recipe, store-bought frosting, and gold candies for the center! 

These St. Patrick's Day cupcakes are perfect for kids  and classroom parties! Black pot of gold cupcakes filled with gold and topped with rainbow frosting make these delicious and cute!
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Easy St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes

I’m pretty sure you would be the coolest mom ever if you brought these to your child’s classroom St. Patrick’s Day party (do they have those???). Almost as cool as if you made these cupcakes and played this roll a rainbow game! 

I mean, how awesome would it be to see the kids take a bite and realize that there are actually gold coins inside.

Or you could even just take them to a St. Patrick’s Day party with your friends, really who doesn’t love a good surprise. And Reese’s Pieces, which is what I used to fill these with.

St Patrick's Day cupcakes on cake stands

How to Make St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes

These cupcakes are super simple to make! All you’ll need to make them is:

  • Your favorite chocolate cupcake mix (store bought mix is fine)
  • Your favorite white frosting (either homemade or store bought) 
  • Black, blue, red, and yellow food coloring
  • Yellow Reese’s Pieces (could also use yellow Skittles or any other candy) 
  • Cupcake corer (optional) 

1 – Make your cupcakes.

Make the batter for your favorite cupcakes – store bought or homemade. Before you bake them, add a few drops of black food coloring to the batter to make them look like a black pot of gold. 

Bake the cupcakes according to the recipe instructions and allow to cool once baked.

black batter for St Patrick's Day cupcakes

2 – Core your cupcakes.

Use a cupcake corer or just a knife and spoon to cut out the center middle of your cupcakes. Set aside the piece you cut out because you’ll want to save it to replace after you fill the cupcakes.

Just make sure you don’t cut all the way through to the bottom or your gold coins will fall out as soon as you add them into the cupcakes!

Coring St. Patrick's Day cupcakes

3 – Fill your cupcakes.

Add a spoon full of yellow Reese’s Pieces into each of the cupcakes then place the cut out piece back on top – cutting off a small piece of the cupcake if it doesn’t fit back in perfectly. 

St Patrick's Day cupcakes filled with yellow coins

4 – Frost your cupcakes.

Split the frosting into three bowls and use food coloring to turn them into red, blue, and yellow frosting – one color frosting per bowl.

Rainbow frosting tutorial and awesome St. Patrick's Day cupcakes from playpartyplan.com #recipes #cupcakes #frosting #tutorial

Place a piping tip into a large piping bag or into a gallon size ziploc bag (with one of the corners cut out for the tip) to get the bag prepped for frosting. 

Next, spoon the frosting into a large piping bag or a gallon size ziploc bag, alternating each color as you go. It’s hard to explain but hopefully the image below will help show you what I mean. 

Frosting for St Patrick's Day cupcakes

Pick up the frosting bag and pipe frosting on top of each of the black cupcakes. Alternating the frosting colors ends up mixing the colors slightly and gives you a nice rainbow look for the frosting.

I did something similar for my Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty party ideas – simply made rainbow cupcakes with brighter, bolder colors instead of the standard red, blue, and yellow. 

Frosting St Patrick's Day cupcakes
 
Two St Patrick's Day cupcakes
 

5 – Eat your cupcakes!

Your pot of gold St. Patrick’s Day cupcakes are done! Enjoy at room temperature for the best St. Patrick’s Day treat!

Need more rainbow treat ideas? These rainbow donuts or these rainbow chocolate covered apples are some other favorites! 

Coins inside of St Patrick's Day cupcakes
 
Frosted St Patrick's Day cupcakes

More St. Patrick’s Day Ideas

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  • St. Patrick’s Day Scavenger Hunt
  • Rainbow donuts
  • Rainbow candy apples
  • Roll a rainbow game
  • Pot of gold game ideas

Don’t forget to pin these St. Patrick’s Day Cupcakes for later.

These St. Patrick's Day cupcakes are perfect for kids  and classroom parties! Black pot of gold cupcakes filled with gold and topped with rainbow frosting make these delicious and cute!

St. Patrick's Day pot of gold cupcakes from playpartyplan.com #cupcakes #StPatricksDay #recipes #chocolate

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  1. Cheri says

    Posted on 3/1 at 2:20 pm

    visiting from Lakeshore drive linky..and OMG am I going to make these for my grand kids next month! THanks for sharing!
    Cheri
    http://www.fabricandmemories.blogspot.com

    Reply
  2. Valerie says

    Posted on 3/4 at 10:57 pm

    How fun! I love anything with a surprise inside!

    Reply
  3. Kyla @HouseOfHipsters says

    Posted on 3/6 at 1:17 pm

    I always wondered how the M&Ms got in there and didn’t melt. now I know! Such a fun idea! Thanks for sharing on Found & Foraged!

    Reply
  4. Lauren says

    Posted on 3/6 at 9:54 pm

    What a clever cupcake idea- how fun these would be for dessert!

    Reply
  5. Susan says

    Posted on 3/7 at 10:57 pm

    What a brilliant idea and I know my kids will be thrilled when they take a bite of these fun cupcakes. Thanks for sharing at the This Is How We Roll Link Party on Organized 31,

    Reply
  6. Lisa Ehrman says

    Posted on 3/9 at 12:33 am

    Kids are going to love these cupcakes!!!

    Reply
  7. Joy @ Yesterfood says

    Posted on 3/9 at 11:45 am

    Britni, these are the cutest for St. Patrick’s Day! ♥ Featuring tonight at Treasure Box Tuesday- we get started at 8:00 p.m. Eastern time! Thank you for partying with us- pinned! 🙂

    Reply
  8. Lindsay Eidahl says

    Posted on 3/9 at 8:59 pm

    I love this cupcake! Thank you for sharing on Show Me Saturday!

    Reply
  9. Cydnee says

    Posted on 3/11 at 11:27 pm

    I love these Pot of Gold cupcakes! Adorable! Thank you very much for joining in the celebration of #purebloglove, we enjoy having you each week. I hope to see you on Thursday at 8PM, EST through Sunday night. ~Cydnee

    Reply
  10. PRASHANTH says

    Posted on 3/10 at 11:17 am

    We always enjoy your articles its inspired a lot by reading your articles day by day. So please accept my thanks and congrats for success of your latest series.

    Reply
    • BritniV says

      Posted on 3/10 at 2:05 pm

      thank you

      Reply
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