Saint Patrick's Day Festivities

So for Saint Patrick's Day this year we got together with our friends Rachel and Conlon to have dinner and play games.  So because it's Saint Patrick's day, we stuck to the theme of rainbows and green!  For dinner we made some rainbow pancakes and green scrambled eggs.  Yup--we all got to eat our whole rainbow! (...except no one quite finished it all)

Obviously it's not much of a surprise...you make rainbow pancakes by making regular pancake batter and separating it into the bowls and dying them whatever color you want.

And you cook them like normal too.  The key to wonderful, deep, rich color is using gel food coloring instead of liquid food coloring.  Whether its a cake, cupcake, pancakes, or whatever--use gel.  

So then you're left with lovely rainbow stacks of pancakes!

But you can't have rainbows without the clouds at the bottoms... so we got whipped cream :)

I don't know how, but it was not even hard to fit 6 layers of pancakes in one bit.  It was so good!

I also made some lovely Irish potatoes (Which Rachel and Conlon had never heard of; are they very uncommon? Strange.) And utilizing my new surface area.

I probably should have made them a little bit smaller because they're so rich, but they're still good

I also made a red velvet cake from scratch, except I made it green instead of red.  It tasted very good but the recipe was pretty confusing in certain parts and the consistency of the cake wasn't excellent.  Which is actually a pretty big deal since it was supposed to be a green velvet cake roll.  So if part of it's too dry, over baked, too thin, etc...it falls apart.  Anyway, the cake tasted pretty good, but the icing/filling was superb! Unfortunately, it wasn't very picture worthy, but it tasted good and that's all that matters! 

In excellent celebration we've also listened to great Irish jig music, wearing green shirts, eating Lucky Charms and attempting poor Irish accents.  Happy Saint Patrick's Day to y'all! And top o' the mornin' to ya!  Or, well not anymore since it's night time.  But you get the jist of it :)