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Usually I just ignore St. Patrick’s Day. Maybe it’s my lack of Irish blood.
So I was planning to just let it slip by again this year until during an email exchange with a blog reader we came up with the idea for some Lucky Leprechaun Cookie Bark!
I really thought I was done with cookie bark.
First there was Candy Corn Cookie Bark.
Then there was Reindeer Corn Cookie Bark
and at course at Valentine’s there was Cupid Corn Cookie Bar.
But now there is Lucky Leprechaun Cookie Bark
Look what you started Lori!!
We decided those yummy Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies would be a perfect addition to some cookie bark along with milk chocolate and pretzels. If you don’t know any Girl Scouts those mint Oreos would work great too and the green filling would be a nice added touch.
Since I haven’t seen any St. Patrick’s Day candy corn around I used green M & M’s instead. I had picked up one of those packages of all green “love” M & M’s they have out at Valentine’s but you could use a regular bag and just pick out the green and brown ones.
I also picked up a bottle of Shamrock sprinkles at the craft store.
Combine all those ingredients together and you get Lucky Leprechaun Cookie Bark!!
So share the luck of the Irish with someone and make them a batch of Lucky Leprechaun Cookie Bark this St. Patrick’s Day!!
Guess what!? My neighbor just called and she found Easter Candy Corn at the store!!! I may have one more cookie bark left in me! Check back at Easter time!
Lucky Leprechaun Cookie Bark
Ingredients
Instructions
You will substitute milk chocolate for white chocolate, green M & M’s for candy corn and thin mints for Oreos.
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You’re so cute- I’ll bet the kids love all of this “bark” experimenting that you’ve been doing 🙂
Hi there!
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mmm looks awesome!!!!
Your bark recipes always look so tempting!
Yum! Yum! Yum! Why am I always on a diet?????
Great idea with the Thin Mints! I bet it’s delicious!!!
Well green is my favorite color, so this looks great to me! I like the idea of the Thin Mint cookies too! Too bad I am on a diet!!! I saw Easter candy corn at Target the other day and I thought of you. 🙂
Oh, yum. I have to stop visiting your blog until my diet is over!
I just had to come leave a comment that I tried your Cranberry Brie Pizza recipe for a baby shower I was hosting recently and it was so yummy, everyone raved about it! My friends couldn’t believe I was brave enough to try out a new recipe on the day of the shower, but I told them the recipe was from such a good source that I knew it had to be excellent!! Thanks for sharing the recipe and helping me come up with a creative, fairly easy, yummy appetizer!
I just tried entering your contest for the awesome pepper grinder, but the comment page couldn’t be found. I hope it is just me…but since there are no other comments it may not be. Thought you would like to know.
I love St Patricks Day! Its my most favorite day of the year. This leprechaun bark will most definitely be a part of our celebrations this year. Thanks for the ideas!
This is so cute! I love dying things green on St. patricks day – usually whipped cream & mashed potatoes. 🙂 Oh – green food dye in the water before cooking rice makes VERY GREEN rice. LOL
Darn it, I knew you would come up with something. I guess instead of selling my last two boxes of Thin Mints I will be putting them to better (yummier) use! I was thinking of using the mint green m & ms or even Andes Mints too. Thanks for another great candy bark recipe. I also saw the Easter/Spring candy corns at Michael’s. I cannot walk by candy corn anymore without thinking of you!
Thanks for another great post – and another yummy seasonal bark idea! I have a friend whose daughter’s birthday is the 17th, and she always has a st. Paddy’s theme. This would be perfect! I can’t wait to tell her!
Just wanted to let you know I made a version of this for my neighbor/teacher treats this year. I had to work with the ingredients I could find, but it still worked out beautifully! Thanks for sharing.
Also, it’s my turn to host book club next week so I’m off to read up on some of your other bar/dessert recipes. 🙂
P.S. I too saw Easter corn at Fred Meyer. And if ever you’d like a specific color M&M, JoAnn’s carries a full range of colors in their baking/wedding favor section.
Thank you for the new ideas on bark. I have been making bark for over 6 years now and have come up with over 20 different flavors. I was looking at your idea on the bunny bark and how you lay your items down on the pan before adding the chocolate. I have always used almond bark (chocolate or vanilla) and mixed in my ingredients but will try your way the next time I make candy.
I am not a cook per se but love to make candy and give it out to friends and family. Thanks again for the fun new ideas!!!
I am loving all the fun bark ideas here!!! And to use girl scout cookies in it? Genius addition:-)
love this! and you may have inspired me to do “something” for St Patty’s day 🙂
you had me at girl scout cookies! looks SO yumm!!!
What a cute idea!!
This looked so yummy!! I would love to make this for a party. I also wanted you to know that I featured this today at http://www.artsyfartsymama.com/2013/02/pinteresting-features-n-shtuff-70.html
Nom nom nom!
This is so festive! I have a hard time coming up with St. Patrick’s Day treats that my children like… What a great idea…and it looks wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
Yummy! I love a good St. Patrick’s Day treat. I have three young boys, and they will love this! It’s been pinned (me and 42 thousand other people- WOW!). Thanks so much for sharing. Have a wonderful day!
Amazingly awesome! I have already added my pin to your stack of pins from the past year. =)
What a fun St. Patty’s day goodie….and it’s so pretty!
I’d love for you to share this at my March Madness Party.
http://4you-withlove.blogspot.com/2013/03/march-madness-party-link-up-begins.html
Happy Hump Day!
Marilyn
That looks seriously yummy! I’m gonna have to make some for my family… :)thanks much!
Great pics too….
hugs x
Crystelle
This looks so good. We have a link party called Wednesdays Adorned From Above Blog Hop and would love to have you share this and any other posts with everyone. It runs from Tuesday night through midnight Sunday. Here is the link to the party.
http://www.adornedfromabove.com/2013/03/wednesdays-adorned-from-above-blog-hop.html
We are also having a giveaway this week for a $50.00 Target Gift Card, so head over to enter.
We hope to see you there.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
This is a delicious looking treat. Will be whipping it up this weekend.
Over from “a glimpse inside,” WOW that looks tasty!!!
Yum! This looks so good! :] I may have to try this this weekend!
They look dangerous. lol Yum!
Oh my goodness…this looks so yummy! Looks like a great recipe for a St. Patty’s Day party I’m planning for some fellow homeschool families!!!
I hope you will come link this post up at my VERY FIRST Link party, the FESTIVE FRIDAY FIESTA! (ole!) It’s actually running now through Noon ET on Sunday!
Here is the link for you, if you’d like to come check it out! I’d love to see you there!
http://the-home-girl-blog.blogspot.com/2013/03/welcome-to-very-first-festive-friday.html
Thanks so much for sharing this yummy recipe! Have a great evening!
Looks yummy!! Thanks for sharing on Do Something Crafty Friday!
lucky are those who get o eat these. Thank you for sharing at the hop xo
I’m with you, I normally skip St. Patty’s day too! But oh my… throw Thin Mints into anything and hand it over! Sounds so yummy and so easy!
Thanks for linking up to this week’s Catch a Glimpse Party. I’ll be featuring this tomorrow. 🙂
Thanks so much Allison! I can’t pass up a Thin mint either!
I’ve been avoiding buying Girl Scouts but I guess I’ll have to breakdown and buy a box of thin mints so I can try to replicate your bark. That looks fabulous! Pinned it too. Stopping by from Foodtastic Friday. I also host a foodie blog hop and I would love for you to share your Leprechaun Bark at Friday Food Fight.
Yum! I’ve always heard the green M&M’s are lucky 🙂
Thanks for linking up for WW!
Your Lucky Leprechaun Cookie Bark will be a perfect treat for the celebration. Thank you so much for sharing this special recipe with Full Plate Thursday and enjoy your weekend.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
my boys would love this!! 🙂
I, too, have always struggled to get into St. Patty’s day…but THIS…THIS I could do. What a yummy creation! Thanks for getting my mouth watering with this one. Fantastic photos, too.
I have such a hard time using girl scout cookies for anything but just eating. This does look tempting though! Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friday.
oh YUM! and I love the name!!
Thanks so much for linking up to the party Leigh Anne! I featured your post in my wrap up http://tidymom.net/2013/creative-ideas-for-st-patricks-day/
Have a fabulous weekend!
O my gosh. This looks delicious. Stopping by from the Raising Imperfection link party. Pinning this!
Oh yum! This looks fantastic!!
Thanks for sharing your favorite post at Raising Imperfection! We feature our favorites on Friday, make sure to come back and check.
Leslie
This just has to be fabulous! It’s the perfect combination for sure… Pinned! Thanks for coming to (link) party with me at Super Saturday Show & Tell 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie
What a super yummy treat!
Thank you for linking to Raising Imperfection.
Please come back Friday to see if you were featured. 🙂
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Thanks so much for sharing this yummy confection. Linda
beautiful! this looks yummy! i followed you from your marvelous mondays link party post! 🙂 i wanted to let you know that i’m going to be starting my own link party for recipes on tuesdays. it kicks off tomorrow! i’d love it if you participated! 🙂 http://www.anyonita-nibbles.com is my blog.
You’re so right! Every holiday needs a “bark”! Thanks for sharing at Pinworthy Projects.
Oh I don’t think that you should ever be done with bark. Not as delish as you make yours! Thin mints are to die for in this bark! Thanks for Sharing at Show Me Your Plaid Monday’s!
Yum! I love mint and chocolate combos. Even better with the hint of saltiness. Thanks for the recipe!
OMG can you hear me drooling? This is definitely on the “to make” list! Thanks so much for sharing at March Madness
This is something that I wish I had a plate of right now! It looks delicious! Thanks for sharing on Marvelous Mondays. Pinned and shared on my Facebook page!
I’m coming back for the Easter bark!!! Thanks for sharing at Family Fun Friday!
Monica
http://happyandblessedhome.com
hope to see you again later this week at:
http://happyandblessedhome.com/category/family-fun/
Here’s the link to the Bunny Bark!
https://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/bunny-cookie-bark/
So much fun! Pinned! Thanks so much for sharing at Mom On Timeout!
This is such a fun idea. I think bark in general is fun! So much you can do with it. Although I’m not nearly this creative! Thank you for linking, Leigh Anne.
Sharing this on my FB page tomorrow!
This look delicious. We would like to invite you to share it at our party that goes live tonight: thebusybhive.blogspot.com
Hope to see you there!
Thanks,
The Busy Bee’s
Myrna and Joye.
Chocolate, Thin mints, and pretzels all together?! YUM! Thanks for sharing! I’m not usually a St. Patrick’s day person either…. but for these I might have to make an exception!
This is just all kinds of wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing at last week’s BFF Open House link party. I featured this as my chocolate feature at this week’s party, now up!
Leigh Anne- What an awesome recipe! I love all the goodies you included in your cookie bark! You are a Featured Favorite this week on Saturday Show & Tell on Cheerios and Lattes! We loved having you join us last week and can’t wait to see what you have been up to this week! Have a great weekend!
Mackenzie 🙂
I could really use some of this cookie bark right about now 🙂 Thanks for linking up this post to The Best Blog Recipe’s Weekend re-Treat #7!
Wanted to stop by and pin your image to My Link Parties Craft/DIY & Recipe Boards while I was here.
Hope to see you again at the party this weekend!
Shauna
http://thebestblogrecipes.blogspot.com/
http://ready2loseweight.blogspot.com/
Your kids must love you! Oh my gosh! You’re killin me here.
Looks amazing Leigh Anne! I shared it in my recent roundup with Parade: http://parade.condenast.com/267422/kimbyers/20-st-patricks-day-treat-craft-ideas/
Thanks so much Kim!!!
Hi! This looks like another delicious recipe! Look forward to making it! I was wondering what chocolate you used in the pictures? Milk? Have you every mixed chocolates? Thanks for your help…and all of the great recipes. 🙂