Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Are you Irish? Are you lucky? No matter the answer to the previous questions, do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? I feel like here in the U.S. it’s crazy NOT to celebrate this day of luck!
What do you do for St. Patrick’s Day?
I was brainstorming what I should do to celebrate this holiday, and the only thing I could think of was to celebrate with food! So I made this smoothie bowl for breakfast. It’s topped with a leprechaun because leprechauns are super cute and St. Patrick’s Day-ish.
I also made another rainbow version of it in case you like rainbows more than leprechauns! They’re both pretty festive, since apparently you can find a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and this gold is supplied by little leprechauns. Make either of these smoothies for breakfast, lunch, or dinner to celebrate this day and you will have all the luck of the leprechaun!!
St. Patrick’s Day Smoothie Bowls
The Base (for both bowls):
- ½ a frozen banana
- 1 cup blueberries (I used frozen)
- 3/4 to 1 cup of nondairy milk (I used Silk vanilla soy milk since it has a sweet vanilla taste that I like)
Leprechaun Bowl
- the other ½ of the frozen banana
- 3-4 strawberries
- ½ to 3/4 cup nondairy milk
Toppings:
- 1 big carrot, washed and shredded for the beard
- 2 blueberries for the eyes
- 1 strawberry cut in half for the mouth
- 2 raw cashews for the eyebrows
- 2 almonds- 1 whole one for the nose and one cut in ½ for the ears
- 3-4 spinach leaves for the hat
- a few banana slices for the hat brim
Rainbow Bowl
Toppings:
- 10 whole strawberries (or raspberries)
- carrot slices
- banana slices (you could use pineapple or mango slices here, I just didn’t have any fresh pineapple or mango to use)
- spinach slices (or use green grapes if you have them)
- coconut shreds
Put the base in the blender and blend it until it’s smooth. Pour the base smoothie into a bowl.
For the leprechaun smoothie bowl: Rinse out your blender and make the leprechaun “face” smoothie. Pour it on top of the base smoothie. You might need to spoon it out of the blender and into the bowl to shape it. Wash a big carrot and shred it with a grater into small shreds. Sprinkle these shreds on top of the “face” smoothie. Add on blueberry eyes, cashew eyebrows, almond ears and an almond nose, a berry mouth, and tear spinach into the shape of a hat and place it on top of the leprechaun’s “head.” Cut a few banana coins, then cut them in half again and add them to the top of the “hat.” Say hi to your friend… then eat him!!
For the rainbow smoothie bowl: Wash and cut your fruit and veggie toppings, then arrange it all in a color-coordinated arc to make a rainbow. Sprinkle the ends of the “rainbow” with coconut flakes to represent clouds! You could also add light-colored granola to the end of the rainbow to represent gold coins. Serve and enjoy!
SUPER CUTE!!! Happy St. Patty’s Day!
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Thanks Ellie! 🙂
Did you do anything festive for St. Patty’s Day or are you running in any Irish Jigs?
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I forgot it was St. Patrick’s day hahaha so NOPE!
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Hahaha not going to lie, I did too until I looked at my calendar! Oh well! 🙂
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You are so creative! I would have made a lemon banana smoothie bowl ans sprinkled lemon zest to make a pot of gold!
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Thank you so much, Cassie! Ooh that is such a good idea- next year! Or next week because who says it has to only be on St. Patty’s Day!? How much lemon do you add? Believe it or not, I’ve never put lemon in a smoothie!
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Ellie how amazing! 🙂 Going to show my son when he gets home and see if I can convince him he’d rather make (& eat) a leprechaun than play on the xbox 😀 x
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Thanks so much, Laurena! You are so sweet. Making and eating smoothies is more fun than playing on an xbox in my opinion. 🙂 Let me know how it goes!
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Lol… mine too! Let’s see what he says! I’m sure once I show him your photos he’s going to want to make one (or two) for snack!!! 😀 x
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How’d it go? 🙂
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I love your smoothie bowls! That leprechaun is absolutely adorable!
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Thank you so much, Starr! Smoothie bowls are so fun to make. 🙂
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