St. Patrick’s Day always calls for a little green, and this lime Jello poke cake is such a fun and festive way to celebrate! Soft white cake gets infused with bright lime Jello for a beautiful green cake, then topped with a creamy whipped cream cheese frosting.

It’s light, refreshing, and so simple to make—perfect for parties, potlucks, or just a sweet treat at home with your family.

We love jello poke cakes in our house! From our mega popular lemon jello cake to the classic strawberry jello cake, I’ve been looking for the perfect opportunity to try a lime jello cake and St. Patrick’s Day seemed like the perfect time to try it! An easy St. Patrick’s Day dessert is just what every busy mom needs!

Ingredients for a Shamrock Poke Cake

For the Cake

• White Cake Mix: Provides a light, fluffy, neutral base that lets the lime Jello flavor and green color shine. White mix also absorbs the Jello beautifully when poked.
• Eggs: Bind the ingredients together, add structure, and give richness to the cake.
• Vegetable Oil: Keeps the cake moist and tender while helping it stay soft after chilling.
• Water: Used to make the cake mix and to create the Jell-O.
• Green Food Dye: Don’t use regular! Gel works 100x better.
• Lime Jell-O: Infuses the cake with tart, citrusy flavor and a vibrant green color while adding a fun, moist texture.

For the Frosting

• Heavy Whipping Cream: Whipped to stiff peaks, it gives the frosting a fluffy, light texture.
• Cream Cheese: Adds tangy richness and stability to the frosting, balancing the sweetness of the Jello and powdered sugar.
• Powdered Sugar: Sweetens the frosting and helps achieve a smooth, spreadable consistency.
• Salt: A pinch enhances all the flavors, keeping the frosting from tasting overly sweet.
• Vanilla Extract: Brings warmth and depth, softening the sharp citrus notes of the lime.
• Garnishes: Add sprinkles, lime zest, candy, etc. if desired.

How to Make a Poke Cake

1. Make the Box Cake: Make the cake batter according to the instructions on the box and pour into a 7×11-inch baking dish. Add a few squeezes of green food coloring and mix it into the batter and then bake.
2. Prepare the Jello: Let the cake cool for 15 minutes and make the jello in the meantime. Follow the directions for making the jello using the hot and cold water method.
3. Poke and Pour: Once the c

Easy Irish Ground Beef and Cabbage [+Video]

This hearty and flavorful Irish-inspired dish combines ground beef, cabbage, tomatoes, and seasonings to create a simple and delicious meal. Perfect for St. Patrick’s Day or any night of the week!

Our Easy Korean Ground Beef is quickly becoming one of our absolute most popular recipes on our site. I love that everyone loves it, but I couldn’t stop thinking that if anyone else is like me, they’d probably appreciate a few different versions and with St. Patrick’s Day coming up, I wanted to start there.

It’s really hard at our house to think up a few fun dishes for the kids, though our corned beef and cabbage recipe, St. Patty’s Day snack mix and Irish soda bread are all winners. So here’s to a random, quick and easy ground beef dinner recipe and all the joys of less dishes!

Ingredients for Ground Beef and Cabbage

This ground beef recipe uses simple, inexpensive ingredients making it both budget-friendly and perfect for a busy family. Here is everything you need:

• Ground Beef:
• Yellow Onion:
• Garlic: adds flavor
• Salt: adds flavor
• Fire Roasted Diced Tomatoes: adds a little heat
• Better Than Bouillon Roasted Beef Base: adds bold beefy flavor to the sauce.
• Tomato Paste: This is an optional ingredient but makes the sauce more thick and creamy.
• Cumin: adds flavor
• Smoked Paprika:
• Green Cabbage: See section below for how to chop cabbage.
  • NOTE: Use the other half of the cabbage another day for chopped Chinese chicken salad!

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of the post.

How to Make Ground Beef and Cabbage

This entire recipe from start to finish is made in one pan! It doesn’t get much better or easier than that! Dinner will be on the table in 30 minutes…

1. Cook the Meat: Place the ground beef in a large skillet (or shallow dutch oven) over medium heat and cook the meat until browned. Push the beef to one side and drain any grease or liquid.
2. Sauté: Add a little oil to the pan and sauté the onions and garlic with a little salt until tender and fragrant.
3. Stir: Add in the undrained tomatoes and stir to combine. Then add the bouillon, tomato paste, cumin, smoked paprika, salt and pepper to the beef mixture and mix everything together.
4. Simmer: Reduce the heat to medium-low and let the mixture simmer for 5 minutes. Add the cabbage and li

Green Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies [+Video]

Huge, soft green mint chocolate chip cookies are just what you need for celebrating St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a holiday that I don’t do much for, much to my children’s chagrin, but these cookies are totally in my wheelhouse!

I failed HARD last St Patrick’s day. You guys, my kids are older, who knew it would break some hearts to not make something green for St Paddy’s? I bought Lucky Charms that turn the milk green, I thought that would be so fun since I never buy marshmallow cereal. (No judgments if you do, I just hate that as they are putting away cereal bowls they are already asking for a snack because it didn’t fill them up.)

I mean, ok I do have a little guy, but he wasn’t even the upset one, it was the 10 going on 11 year old that was so sad. Yeash. I busted out some green cookies, borrowed a gold spray painted box from the neighbor and Cade bought all sorts of green candies and even pop to stuff inside.

I’ll probably never go to that extent again, it’s just not my holiday, but the winner of the night did in fact end up being these cookies and I just had to share them with all of you this year.

What Ingredients Do I Need for Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies?

Imagine a fairly standard chocolate chip cookie recipe, with a few extra ingredients to make them mi

Braised One Pan Sausage and Cabbage and Potatoes – St Patricks Day Dinner

I don’t know what it is about these three ingredients combined, but this braised sausage, cabbage and potatoes dish is my new favorite easy dinner recipe! Perfect for St Patricks Day dinner!

I don’t love St Patrick’s Day. I can’t ever think up anything cute and the traps, ohhhhh the traps! They are so fun and I love watching the kids work for hours on them, but I’m also not crafty so I don’t just have doodads and whatsits lying around waiting to be artified.

Last year I was feeling all the feels of an inkling that we would be moving soon and then the dreaded St Paddy’s Day hit. I immediately asked my friend Megan why we had to celebrate and she came back with, “just do the ol’ cabbage, sausage and potatoes in one pot and be done.”

Wait what? No whining alongside me? She actually had a plan?! And so I did, I followed her example and recipe and voila! Dinner was done in 30 and it was delicious! WHY IS IT DELICIOUS!? It is literally 3 ingredients but everyone ate the whole darn thing. AND what was leftover I put in the Food Saver and froze it and oh my goodness, it totally held up perfectly a few weeks later when we had it again!

Ingredients for Sausage, Cabbage and Potatoes

Are you ready for the 6 (possibly 7) ingredients you need to make this quick and easy dinner? This is what you will need:

• Sausage: you can use any type of sausage you want…chicken, turkey, pork, etc…bratwurst also works or a kielbasa
• Potatoes: I prefer the flavor of Yukon Gold potatoes, but red potatoes would also work or just plain Russets, peeling is optional
• Red or Yellow Onion: either type works great, it just depends on which flavor your prefer
• Cabbage: regular green cabbage is my go-to, but you could also use red. If you’re using this for St Patricks Day, then the more green the better!
• Olive Oil: helps caramelize the onions
• Salt and Pepper: adds flavor
• Garlic: this is totally optional, it tastes great without it, but it does add delicious flavor if you are a garlic fan

The measurements for each ingredient can be found in the recipe card at the end of this post. 

Tips for Making Sausage, Cabbage and Potatoes

1. Cut the potatoes to be the same size so that they cook evenly.
2. Use a dutch oven, it caramelizes the onions and cooks the sausage and potatoes perfectly.
3. Don’t use too high of heat when cooking. The onions will start to burn before everything else cooks through.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

1. Easy: you only need 6 (possibly 7) ingredients, and it is all made in one pot which makes it super easy to clean up and the prep work is minimal
2. Quick: you can have dinner on the table in 30 minute