Lucky For You, We Found The Best Cakes For St. Patrick’s Day

Looking to show off your one-eighth of Irish heritage? Attempt whipping up one of these festive cakes for St. Patrick’s Day.

If you’re wondering why everything is suddenly all green, it’s not because you’re in the Emerald City. St. Patrick’s Day is coming up, and we’ve officially moved on from red and pink hearts to Kelly green shamrocks.

Mostly, we’re excited for any opportunity for more themed cakes. From rainbow sprinkles and Irish whiskey syrup to clover chains and pots of (chocolate) gold, these St. Patty’s Day creations are perfect for your March holidays.

Whether you’re going for rainbow sponges or bright green buttercream, the sky’s the limit. Until it starts to rain, that is. This is an Irish holiday, after all. So sit back and get inspired by these amazing St. Patrick’s Day cakes. You’ll be feeling lucky (and hungry) in no time.

The 29 Best Cakes for St. Patrick’s Day

1. Happy St. Patrick’s Day Cake

It has everything you need. Green cake. Sparkles. A leprechaun’s hat? Yep, that’ll do it.

 

2. Lucky Gingham Cake

We’re up all night ‘til the sun, we’re up all night…eating this cake. And figuring out how to recreate that gingham pattern with icing.

 

3. Pastel Rainbow March Birthday Cake

Having a St. Patrick’s Day birthday is a great excuse to request a pot of gold. We’ll take it in even in chocolate form.

 

4. St. Patrick’s Day Lucky Charms Cake

We’d never say an Irish goodbye to this cake. Well, we’ll say it as we eat it slice by slice. But never before.

 

5. Candy Decorations St. Patrick’s Day Cake

The sour candy rainbows? The green M&Ms arranged as shamrocks? No notes. Except, “one slice, please.”

 

6. Green Moss Cake

This may not be as colorful as others on the list, but it’s a fabulous and healthy green cake base for St. Patrick’s Day, so you can go wild with decoration. That’ll be six bottles of sprinkles, please.

 

7. Guinness Chocolate Cake

Guinness AND chocolate? Say less.

 

8. Leprechaun Party Cake

Who needs friends when you have leprechauns? With these three party animals, the guest list is full. A stroke of luck, because we didn’t want to share the cake, anyway.

 

9. Clover Rainbow Cake

We thought buttercream shamrock rainbows only existed in our dreams. Did we manifest this? You’re welcome, everyone.

 

10. Hidden Rainbow Leprechaun Hat Cake

Who’s going to tell this rainbow it’s missing blue? Don’t look at us, we’re still thinking about how seven ate nine. The betrayal.

 

11. Shamrocks All Over Cake

If you’re celebrating a baby shower in March, this frosted pastel creation is too perfect. Also, Clover for a girl and Patrick for a boy. You’re welcome.

 

12. Rainbow Party St. Patrick’s Day Cake

This cake looks so fun, it makes us want to turn up. And by turn up, we mean turn up early so we can get the biggest slice.

 

13. Irish Whiskey Cake

If, like baking legend Prue Leith, you love a boozy cake, this is the ultimate choice for St. Patrick’s Day. We want to put that drizzle on everything. Any ideas on how we could make it work for breakfast?

 

14. Chocolate Guinness Pudding Cakes with Salted Caramel Sauce

This flourless chocolate cake has got a not-so-secret Irish ingredient: Guinness. Come along as we figure out every single way to consume the classic Irish drink this St. Patrick’s Day. It’ll be fun, especially if you have Advil.

 

15. Pot-O-Gold On Top of the Rainbow Cake

Take off the pot of gold and this cake also works for Pride. Now that’s versatility. We don’t recommend eating two-month-old cake though. Just sayin’.

 

16. Rainbows and Four-Leaf Clover Cake

Peep the sneaky dinosaur sprinkles. They’re still green, so we’re sure Saint Patrick won’t mind. Not that he’s saying much these days.

 

17. Perfectly Placed Sprinkles Patty’s Day Cake

Does the precision of the sprinkle placement on this cake make this tweezer food? Not that it matters. We’ll be eating it with a shovel.

 

18. Shades of Green St. Patrick’s Day Cake

Rainbow, who? This cake is so aesthetically pleasing, we’ll only be eating foods in single-color ombre gradients from now on.

 

19. Lucky One St. Patrick’s Day Cake

We’d say this cake is in its Red era, but it’s just so…green.

 

20. Rainbow Spill Cake

This dreamy dripping cake sham-rocks our world. Sorry, we’ll leave now. Right after we get a nice finger-full of frosting. What do you mean we weren’t even invited?

 

21. Sparkly St. Patrick’s Day Cake

This delicate glitter and pastel rainbow transports us right to the Irish countryside. This is what it looks like right? Pot of gold and all?

 

22. Green Velvet Rainbow Cake

Move over red velvet, you’ve had your turn. On St. Patrick’s Day, it’s easy being green. Particularly if you don’t like being pinched.

 

23. Gilded “Irish” Cake

‘Nuff said.

 

24. Foaming Beer St. Patty’s Day Cake

Does having cake beer in one hand and real beer in the other still count as double fisting?

 

25. Clover Chains Cake

What’s more “St. Patrick’s Day” than four-leaf clovers and rainbows? Catholicism doesn’t count.

 

26. Hidden Gold Geode-Style Cake

This is more like it. When we say pot of gold, we want some real cash to show for it. Sorry? It’s just chocolate? Oh. That works, too.

 

27. Fluffy Rainbow St. Patrick’s Day Cake

This pastel rainbow cake looks so fluffy, it’s got us rummaging through our cabinets for any and all cake ingredients. Baking soda and baking powder are the same, right? (No.)

 

28. St. Patty’s Day Unicorn Cake

Top of the uni-morning to you! That was a little uni-corny, we admit it.

 

29. Shamrock Sprinkles Cake

When they said show your Irish pride this St. Patrick’s Day, this is definitely what they were talking about.