8 Traditional Irish Desserts for Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

Studded with raisins and spiced with caraway seeds, this classic bread is great toasted and served with butter. The best part of the recipe? It only requires 10 minutes of hands-on time to whip up this traditional Irish food.

Dark Irish stout gives chocolate cake a rich, moist flavor profile, topped with a creamy ganache. This is the perfect grand finale for your St. Patrick's Day dinner (or the perfect sweet after a hearty beef stew). 

Buttery shortbread cookies are an Irish dessert staple. This tweak on the classic cookie, infused with the flavors of Earl Grey tea, are the just the right thing to pair with a cozy cup of tea and a good book.

Ireland is famous for their excellent chocolates, so a few truffles would be the perfect dessert to share on St. Patrick's Day. You can whip up a batch of the basic recipe and dress it up with green sprinkles or bits of toffee, or try a variation by infusing the ganache with Irish cream, whiskey, or stout.

Custardy bread pudding is the perfect sweet treat for a cold evening—and it's so easy to put together. (Just soak chopped pieces of bread in a sweet, eggy batter, and bake.) It's a popular Irish dessert—especially when paired with a dried-fruit-and-brandy compote.

This sweet St. Patrick's Day treat is incredibly easy to put together—just start with a devil's food cake mix and a bottle of Guinness.  (It's also the perfect easy Irish dessert for a birthday celebration!)

If you like your desserts a little less sweet, these tea-time staples, infused with the sweet-spicy combo of fresh blueberries and ginger, may be. the perfect choice. 

A cup of the famed Irish stout helps give these adorable mini bundt cakes a deep chocolate flavor that makes for a perfect Irish dessert. Just a sprinkle of confectioner's sugar tops it off.